Lebara MVNO hits Switzerland

Rating: Snow, chocolate and cheap calls

There are 1.5 million foreign nationals in Switzerland. This is 20% of the population. So Lebara has stepped in with a new Mobile SIM card that slashes the cost of international calling.

The cost:
19 Swiss cents a minute in Western Europe to fixed lines
39 Swiss cents a minute to call mobile phones.
Calls abroad are similarly priced at only 29 Swiss Francs to Thailand or Turkey per minute.

A Lebara SIM card is 15 Swiss Francs with 10 Swiss Francs inclusive credit – so pretty darn cheap. But the only catch is that in Switzerland registration of mobile phones is required which curbs uptake in some immigrant communities where language is a problem. Also, hotels or residences do not qualify as a fixed abode.

Rock-on Lebara!

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