Prepaid Mobile 2006, Prague

Informa Telecoms & Media's 10th Annual Prepaid Mobile conference is the meeting place for prepaid professionals to come together and evaluate what are the optimum strategies for increasing prepaid usage and revenues. The global prepaid market is undergoing a radical evolution in terms of market opportunities, technologies and services offered by operators. This event will give you a comprehensive understanding of the strategies to maximise revenues from prepaid customers and secure a share in this growing market.

PrePaidGSM.net will be there in Prague for the event.

New offers in Bulgaria

Our friend 0700700, directly from Sofia, updates us with the latest Bulgarian offers for prepaid customers. Both Mtel and Globul started the price war against the newcome Vivatel. Both operators offer discounts and monthly bonuses for new prepaid kits, and new tariffs with lower national rates per minute.
For all the information check our Bulgaria page on PrePaidGSM.

Added new MVNO offers in the USA

Thanks to our dear friend AdmiralAK we made a new update to the USA page on PrepaidGSM.

New offers added are:
- Circle K Talk & Go Mobile
- Locus Mobile
- Pop (by Locus Wireless)

I updated also the pages about Callplus and Oxygen Wireless.

You can find all the information on the USA page on PrepaidGSM.

New international card: 09 Mobile

Our friend Andy noticed it first and talked about it on our forum. The new offer looks very similar to Riiing, but with different zones and with a different country code: not Liechtenstein anymore, but Iceland, home network is Siminn.

The rates are very similar (often slightly higher) to Riiing and there is plenty of "free roaming" countries, while Siminn seems to have more roaming agreements than FL1, expecially in the Pacific and America. So if you are looking for more roaming countries but still with many free incoming ones this could be a very interesting solution.

You can buy it directly on the Official Site or at Orate.

More information on our International Cards pages.

Vivatel prepaid offer, Bulgaria

The 3rd Bulgarian operator has officially started its services with a prepaid offer with flat rate tariff for all national calls, a little cheaper compared to the 2 competitors. SMS, MMS and GPRS/EDGE services are all available. International roaming is available in Turkey and Serbia only.
There's a startup promotion for all Vivatel prepaid customers: all the credit you spend from now to the 6th of January 2006 will be credited back on the 7th of January 2006.
Vivatel has also some of the cheapest international calls from Bulgaria.

All information about rates and services on PrePaidGSM Bulgaria page.

New tariffs for Simyo and Blau, in Germany

German MVNO SIMyo is going to lower its voice and SMS rates from November 16. The new tariffs are € 0.16/min for all national calls and € 0.11 for all national SMS. The previous one were € 0.19/0.14.



Following SIMyo, also Blau.de lowered its tariffs, but it's not a real new, lower, tariff by now. You keep on paying € 0.19/0.14 for voice calls/sms, but you get € 0.03 of bonus for every minute/SMS. That goes to a "special bonus credit" which becomes "normal credit" in two ways:
- automatically, when it reaches € 5.00
- when you recharge your account

Elisa and Tele2, Estonia

Some updates from Estonia. Both Elisa and Tele2 lowered the national rates for their prepaid offers Zen (Elisa), Smart and Ultra (Tele2). Daytime rates are now much cheaper compared to EMT, while on night time rates all the 3 operators are quite similar.

Added GPRS connection for Tele2 prepaid cards too, for both Ultra and Smart. MMS are available as well with different rates for Smart and Ultra.

You can find all the information at our Estonia page.

Amigo, Latvia

Added some more info about Amigo prepaid card in Latvia.
The only Latvian MVNO now offers GPRS data connection at around € 1 per MB (but they talk about Megabits on their site, instead of Megabytes, hope they correct!), which is quite a decent rate.
MMS are available as well at LVL 0.05 plus the GPRS data transfered, which can become quite expensive for bigger MMS. You pay incoming MMS too, only the GPRS data.

Go Mobile, Finland

Thanks to Jesse from Finland, I updated the page about the Finnish MVNO Go Mobile.
Here are the news:
- "PartyTime" refill is now available for cheaper calls at nights and weekends;
- special offer for new customers, 100 euros of free airtime only for Finnish customers which register;
- added refills through internet with extra credit included.

You can check the Go Mobile page here.
That's all folks! :)

PrePaidGSM Blog

Here is the first post on the brand new PrePaidGSM blog. We'll use this service to keep our visitors informed about all the updates in the site: new prepaid offers, updates on old offers, new logos, new services and so on.