Some no-frills providers offer price plans that allow cheap mobile calls from Germany to other countries. For example, with such price plans tourists or business men on travel abroad can call their families and friends back home during their stay avoiding expensive roaming charges. Using the SIM card of a German mobile phone provider for an international call is not as cheap as calling from a home phone connection and using a call by call service. Such price plans of German providers for international mobile phone calls are Blau Blauworld, Fonic Prepaid, Solomo Pro, Sunsim Prepaid, Phone House Mobile World, and Tourist Mobile Travel SIM.

However, with prices beginning at 9 cents per minute for mobile phone calls from Germany to countries such as Great Britain, Spain, or the United States, this way many mobile phone users will save money compared to calls with their SIM card back from home. Starter packages of the following price plans of German mobile providers for mobile calls to other countries cost between 10 and 20 euros and sometimes include credit for free calls at the beginning. Some providers do not only charge their customers per minute, but also impose a one-time connection fee per call.

Tourists or business men for countries like Great Britain, Spain or any other member state of the European Union traveling Germany may also use the SIM card of their mobile provider from home for briefly calling their family or friends. This is due to the fact that the European Union has limited maximum charges for roaming calls to 51.17 cents per minute for own mobile phone calls and 22.61 cents per minute for incoming calls on the mobile.