German Mobile Networks - Anyone In The Know?

[Steve_R]

I'm off to Germany in a couple of months, for about 10 days, and am trying to find out if any of the networks out there have any decent data tariff's for PAYG/pre-paid. Unlimited would be nice, but not necessary, just few megabytes a day would suffice.

My scouring of the the operator websites has so far produced a blank, mostly due to me not having a decent enough knowledge of the german language.

Anyone in the know, a german, or can read the lingo to help me out?

Ta

[Micky]

I think Arcor Mannesmann, and Arctel do payg sims, and both have English enabled voice navigational menu's.

[vash_h]

hey there steve..

these days with google language tools.. you can browse almost all websites of various languages and read them in english..

step 1: go to google language tools- Language Tools
step 2: under 'translate a webpage, enter the german website you want to go in.. and select german-english
step 3: you will see the german website translated in english.. and if u click on any of the links, it will b automatically translated into english as well..

i find the language tools very useful.. i can even browse russian sites, french, italian and a lot more..

[madrage]

Hi,

Here in Germany, we've got a couple of cheap pre-paid data-tariffs.

Vodafone for example offers a so-called WebSessions pre-paid tariff. The prices for this tariff are just changing at the moment. In a couple of weeks this tariff will cost 1,95€ for 30 minutes, 2,95€ for 1 hour and 7,95€ for 24 hours. Until 30.04.08 the 24 hours WebSession-tariff will only cost 4,95€ instead of 7,95€

T-Mobile Germany just announced to offer an Internet Day-Flat also for pre-paid users. For a limited time this day-flat will cost 4,95€ per day and in a couple of months it will cost 7,95€ per day... (so it's pretty much the same as the vodafone-tariffs).
I think right now this tariff can't be ordered yet. But in a couple of weeks it should be availible.

We've also got a couple of discounters in the e-plus network here in Germany.
For example blau.de - der Mobilfunk-Discounter
There you get get a pre-paid card, and 1 MB of data-transfer costs 0,24€.
The starter kit of this carrier costs 19,90€ and at the moment you get 20€ credit with this starter kit.

I hope, that helped a little.
As soon as I know more, concerning the T-Mobile Day-Flat, I'm gonna write again.

Greets,
Tobi