German MVNOs keep on growing

The German market confirms its great price competition, thanks to the many MVNOs which lowered the prepaid tariffs really a lot.

Let's start with Simply. This MVNO roaming on T-Mobile net now has 2 offers, a postpaid and a prepaid with the cheapest per minute rate in Germany, € 0.14/min (promotionally till the end of February, then € 0.15/min). Unfortunately also the prepaid offer still has a contract, with unlimited validity, and you need to be a German resident, with a "Schufa" they will check. So it's not an interesting option for tourists or businessmen travelling to Germany.

There's a prepaid MVNO offer by Debitel as well, called Debitel-Light; this is a "normal" prepaid offer, internet based, roaming on e-plus network, and looks really identical to Simyo and Blau offers: € 0.16/min for all calls and € 0.11 for texts to German numbers.

There's a third offer, Jamba SIM, again on e-plus network, which seems to be the same tariff as Schwarzfunk, so not so interesting for voice calls (€ 0.25/min), but good for SMS lovers, since it has the cheapest price for texting, just 9 cent each (to German networks). It also has a 12 months validity, while Simyo, Blau and Debitel have just 6,

There's also a promotion for new Blau.de customers: the startpaket costs € 19.95 including €20 startguthaben, so it seems to be a better choice than Simply or Debitel right now.