This is an overview of postpaid mobile data bundles that are available for notebook and netbook users in Germany. The starter packages usually include a SIM card and a flat rate tariff with s short minimum term commitment of up to six months for accessing the internet via GPRS or UMTS as well as an optional 3G surf stick. Subscribers can choose between different offers in the networks of Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Vodafone, E-Plus, and O2 German. In order to book these postpaid mobile data price plans, users have to indicate a residence and a banking account in Germany. Monthly and set-up fees are payed by direct debit.

This is an overview of prepaid packages including an UMTS surf stick, a SIM card and a mobile data tariff that are available for notebook and netbook users in Germany. Subscribers can choose between different offers in the networks of Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Vodafone, E-Plus, and O2 Germany and between different pricing models, e.g. per day or per month.

This is an overview of mobile data price plans on a prepaid basis that are available for mobile phone or smartphone users in Germany. Subscribers can choose between different offers in the networks of Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Vodafone, E-Plus, and O2 Germany and between different pricing models (per megabyte, per day or per month). Prepaid starter packages include a SIM card for voice and mobile data services and sometimes include a small amount of credit for calls, text messages and/or mobile access to the internet.

German operator Vodafone has launched a new prepaid price plan called “Callya OpenEnd Internet” that offers flat rate tariffs for mobile phone calls, for text messaging (SMS) and for accessing the internet via GPRS or UMTS. Mobile phone calls to landlines and to other Vodafone cell phones in Germany can be made for EUR 0.29 per call. Users of the prepaid SIM card can also send up to 100 text messages for EUR 0.29 per day. And for accessing the internet over the German Vodafone network (APN “wap.vodafone.de” or “web.vodafone.de”) users pay EUR 0.99 per day. As long as the subscribers to the prepaid price plan do not make phone calls, send text massages or access the web via GPRS or UMTS, they don’t have to pay for these services. However, there is a monthly charge of EUR 2.49 for these flat rate tariff options of “CallYa OpenEnd Internet”.

German network operator O2 Germany has launched a new prepaid price plan that offers mobile phone calls, text messages or mobile internet access for free. In return, subscribers to this prepaid price plan under the brand Netzclub will receive up to 30 advertising messages per month on their phone and will have to answer at least once by text message or click on one advertising link. However, there is no obligation for Netzclub subscribers to buy or order anything. Competitor E-Plus is also offering credit to customers who agree to receive advertisement messages on their cell phone under the Gettings brand.

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.

Toggo Mobile is a cell phone plan for kids with unlimited calls to one selected phone number of a parent. Except for the mobile phone calls with its parent, the kid can access the WAP web portal of Toggo Mobile and send unlimited text messages (SMS) to other Toggo Mobile users for the monthly charge of EUR 9.95. The monthly fee also includes eight tracking requests per month by the parents by help of a network based location service. High-rate services such as international mobile phone calls from Germany to other countries as well international roaming calls, sending MMS messages from other countries and mobile internet access via GPRS or UMTS are barred. There is also no voice mail.

Several German mobile phone providers have released information about their mobile data tariffs dedicated to the iPad which will hit Apple stores in Germany on May 28th. Only some of these prepaid price plans of discount providers we have already presented as well as the offers of the network operators Vodafone and O2 Germany. Here is a new overview of all micro SIM packages with mobile data tariffs for connecting the iPad to the internet in Germany via GPRS or UMTS. This selection only includes prepaid price plans and postpaid price plans with a short minimum term commitment of just one month.

One year after having launched the new O2o price plan which is available as prepaid or as postpaid version, the German network operator O2 Germany reduces the cost limit per month to EUR 50.00. This applies to all prepaid and postpaid as well as existing with an EUR 60.00 cost limit and new O2o subscriptions. O2 Germany calls this monthly cost cap “airbag”. It is the maximum charge O2o subscribers have to pay per month for calls and texting (SMS) within Germany which, in the end, makes the O2o price plan some kind of flat rate tariff. Charges for accessing the internet via GPRS or UMTS do not count, though.

Operator Vodafone has published its mobile data price plans for users of the Apple iPad in Germany. Subscribers can choose between two different postpaid price plans with a short term commitment of one month. MobileInternet Basic includes 200 MB for EUR 19.95 per month. The flat rate tariff MobileInternet Basic Monatsflat costs EUR 29.95 and offers 3 GB data volume per month. New customers who order the Basic iPad price plan now, will get the flat rate automatically without further charges until August 1st.