Recommendation for mobile prepaid SIM card for smartphone + home calls in Germany

8/22/2017 1:10:39 PM

Especially to make calls back home while in Germany there are still another offer: Ortel Mobile.

They offer quite good rates to make calls from Germany to other countries.

7/13/2018 5:00:30 PM

Update in August 2017

The below-mentioned companies Lebara and Lycamobile are still probably the cheapest throw-away SIMs available in Germany. But since the new EU roaming regulation has started to be in effect in June 2017, things have become way easier.

If you’re from a European country, you can just use your own SIM with your own data. If you plan to travel across Europe from abroad, you can buy a prepaid SIM card* in the first country and keep using it. In that case, remember to top up enough credit.

*Important: since July 1st 2017 SIM cards have to be registered in Germany. Therefore the costumers have to identify themselves (ID, passport) and they need an adress in Germany!

The answer by Dirty-flow is by now (September 2015) a bit out of date.

Right now the easiest way to get a throwaway SIM is to go to a kiosk or very small store and look for Lebara and/or Lycamobile stickers on the door or windows. Especially in larger cities it’s very easy to find those stores. In Berlin every Spätkauf has those SIMs.

The SIMs are usually given for free, or for a very small fee, in which case they include credit. The store will often help with activating them. Mostly activating just means putting them in the phone and waiting. Sometimes visiting the provider’s website and logging in with the SIM number is required.

You can purchase credit in the same place. Usually in 5 Euro steps. You’ll be given a receipt that has a number that you can use to text it to the top-up service. After that you can book packages with another text service. Some of those packages are good for mobile-data-only. You can get 1GB for 9.90 EUR, for example.

Giving a name to register the SIM is not required.

There are also a lot of packages for calling to non-EU countries cheaply.

Alternatively you can always get Skype credit and do landline-calls to your home country through Skype, which is often way cheaper.

2/28/2014 11:11:04 AM

I can recomend you to buy a SIM-card from Aldi talk or Fonic

  • Alditalk: 11 cent/min & sms in Germany, 12 cent/min to EU-landline, and 29 cent/min to EU-mobile. There is also 1500MB high speed data package for only 10 Euro. The signal strength is not the best(E-Plus network) but it’s OK

  • Fonic: 9 cent/min & sms in Germany and EU-landline, 29 cent/min to EU-mobile. 500MB high speed package for 10€, but the first month is free.The signal is a little bit better that Alditalk(Fonic is using the O2 network)

  • T-mobile has indeed the best signal stregth, but they are much more expensive

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