It’s a jungle out there! Comparis has a very comprehensive list of “deals” to make your head spin.
I come to the end of a 2-year Sunrise mobile contract that gives me almost everything for CHF30/month (incl lifelong discount). The only thing I can’t get is calls CH to UK - without substantially paying extra per call.
To get “international” calls one needs to pay much more than CHF30, except with Lycamobile.ch. I was with them 5 years ago and fell out when their SIM card failed while in the UK. OK, so now it’d be an eSim, but Lyca still don’t have tethering/hotspot and Wi-Fi calling, which is necessary at home.
Salt network is fine and good. Unless you head into the alps a lot. There Swisscom is best. 2 year minimum contract is a duration. As for myself, using Spusu now. Also uses the Salt network but one can quit anytime.
The virtual providers on the SwissCom network (Wingo, M-Budget) have plans that include an unlimited “International calls” add-on for 20Chf/month. If you take one of the cheapest plans at 14chf/month you are just about breaking the 30 chuffs limit. The add-on can be added or removed on a monthly basis, so you can turn it off the months you don’t need it… and their plans now are on a monthly cancellation basis, so you can switch very easily if an even better offer comes around… Swisscom network is the best, you have signal almost everywhere
Within your standard contract, you can call for free using Whatsapp if the other party has that.
Rather than buying a plan for other international calls I tried using eFon - the rates are very good - to call a UK landline it costs .009 Chf/minute, to a UK mobile costs 0.018 Chf/Minute - so a one-hour call to a UK mobile would cost you about 1 Chf
Hi, I moved recently from Swisscom to Post Mobile. I have a „Europe“ contract for 29.95 CHF/month. It includes UK. So far so good. They offer physical and esim.
Every year, QoQa seem to do a Black Friday deal with Sunrise where they offer an attractive deal. It might be worth keeping your eyes peeled around that time.
I used to have Europe plan, but looking at my usage, it turned out that I make maybe 5 min per year calls, so I switched to cheapest plan with unlimited data in Europe/USA and a bit more
Swisscom has the best coverage and speed. Although it might be like 5 CHF expensive than Salt to be honest. I cannot complain, I’m paying like 18 CHF a month for unlimited, as Swisscom has a partnership with my employer. Otherwise the regular rate for such a package would be double like 35 to 40 CHF/month.
All these deals what people mention are time-based and expire generally after 1 or 2 years. Like all the Salt, Sunrise, Swisscom deals, they are only valid for like 1 or 2 years, so within that period you get that special discount, then you have to pay the normal price like everyone else. This is nothing new and how it works in Switzerland, so deals only get you a few years discount, unless you want to change after every 2 years provider to provider.
I actually have a permanent F20 discount from my supplier using the Salt network for unlimited. ATM that works out to a monthly charge of 29.95 less the discount.
Did you know that the companies have to pay comparis for being compared? I call this cheating, the real cheap providers won’t pay (don’t need to) for being compared.
But that means that the really cheap options are not there, like Hong Kong providers that give you whole Europe including Switzerland for less than you pay here for Switzerland.
I use BNE whole Europe just for data in Switzerland, works perfectly. For the rest of Europe except Switzerland I use Digi Spain for 3 Euros per month, no contract, only when I use it.
I buy everlasting Gigas from BNE with no plan, usually on black Friday, but not sure if it is still the cheapest option, still have to spend my gigas from last year. Esimdb has quite a good overview and some coupons:
That’s exactly what I did before. Jump between Sunrise and Salt every 2 years.
Last year, I called Sunrise at the end of the 24 months and they gave me whatever offer was available at the time. Already cheaper than the price at the end of the contract. This is the first time I didn’t went as “new customer” to the other company.
I was attracted to Spusu. For 19.90/month it ticked all the boxes, including calls from CH to EU/UK. Salt network. Communication in German/French/Italian only. Excellent App too.
I set it all up including porting my number to them. My present mobile is with Sunrise and this includes buying for my phone which resulted in not being able to move to Spusu until August 2027.
So, having paid the first CHF19.90 by card and agreeing the contract, I phoned the same day to cancel. They did this without question or quibble and refunded the CC within minutes. You can actually talk almost immediately to someone in Winterthur.
Meanwhile Sunrise were prompted to offer a lower price by 25% (Europe+ not on a contact for CHF23/month), which I gladly accepted. But come August 2027 I may well
The past Summer, from Japan, perfect calls using WhatsApp within Japan and to Switzerland. We also tried Telegram and it did not function well for any of us.