Berne, 03 May 2012, 10:00
Swisscom to lower roaming prices once again
For Swisscom customers, using a mobile phone abroad will
become even cheaper from 1 July: as announced in autumn
last year, the cost of phoning within Europe will drop by a
further CHF 0.05 per minute. Prepaid customers will benefit
from even greater price reductions. In addition, a new
weekly package with an allowance of 50 MB for CHF 24 will
allow customers to surf on their smartphones at rates below
the regulated EU prices. And mobile internet will become
more attractive for Swisscom customers in a further 25
countries. This means Swisscom will continue to be
Switzerland's cheapest roaming provider.
Swisscom is Switzerland's only mobile service provider
to have been continually lowering its roaming prices since
2006 - by up to 80%. Last autumn, Swisscom also announced
to its customers that there would be yearly price
reductions until 2014. As of 1 July, Swisscom is taking
this one step further: as well as the prices for phone
calls in the EU, prices for the use of mobile internet
abroad are being dropped. The package offering 50 MB for
CHF 24 is now valid for a whole week rather than just one
day, enabling customers to surf regularly from countries in
the EU. This means that customers will benefit from prices
that lie even below the tariffs regulated by the EU. In
addition, mobile internet for Swisscom customers in a
further 25 countries outside of Europe will become more
attractive, and prepaid customers will also be able to make
phone calls, send SMS messages and surf the Internet in
other European countries at a much cheaper rate.
Transparency and cost tracking make for problem-free
mobile surfing abroad
With its attractive offerings, Swisscom not only makes sure
that its customers can stay connected with family and
friends while they are abroad, it also protects them from
unwanted expensive bills. Since last summer, Swisscom
customers have been benefitting from free SMS messages that
let them know if they exceed the CHF 50 threshold for
mobile surfing. To make customers feel safer about their
costs, they can activate and individually adapt a limit in
the data roaming cockpit.drt.swisscom.ch.
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