You want to get a DSL internet connection. You don’t want to get in three or four weeks, which is the usual time it takes providers in Germany to set up the broadband internet connection, you want to get it today. One way to access the internet immediately is to buy a prepaid SIM card and an UMTS surf stick and to access the internet over the mobile network until the DSL connection is activated. Another way is to order a DSL bundle of a provider that offers an UMTS surf stick to new customers itself. Unfortunately, at the moment there is only one provider offering DSL with a short minimum term commitment and with such an UMTS surf stick in the German market: Hansenet with its Alice brand.

New DSL subscribers have to select the flat rate tariff option “Alice Qickstart” when ordering the DSL bundle and can choose whether they also want to buy a new UMTS surf stick for EUR 9.90 or not. The UMTS surf stick and the SIM card for accessing the internet via GPRS or UMTS over the network of operator O2 Germany will be delivered by Hansenet within five days. That means: You cannot connect to the web right the very day you are ordering, but still much ealier than when just relying on a new DSL line.

There is no additional charge for the mobile internet access during the first three months, afterwards DSL subscribers pay EUR 14.90 for unlimited access to the web. There is one limitation, though: The data transfer speed will be reduced to GPRS level for the remaining days of a month when the user has up- or downloaded more than 1 Gb data volume.

Hansenet offers two different DSL bundles for consumers: Alice Fun (EUR 29.90 per month) includes a landline and a DSL connection with up to 16 mbps and a double flat rate tariff for home phone calls and connecting to the web. Alice Light (EUR 24.90 per month) includes just a DSL 16,000 connection and a flat rate tariff for surfing the web. In both cases there is a set-up fee of EUR 39.90 and a shipping fee of EUE 9.90 that new DSL subscribers have to pay when decide on a contract with a short minimum term commitment.

Overviews of current landline and DSL plans in Germany:
Landlines with Short Minimum Term
DSL Packages with Short Minimum Term

Overviews of Price Plans for Mobile Internet Access in Germany:
Prepaid Price Plans for Mobile Internet Access
Mobile Data Plans with Short Minimum Term