The time for me has come to chooe a swiss monile provider I've had some experience with Salt and Yallo some years ago in Zurich.
Recently I've been to basel, connected to Salt network and was surprise to see that even within the city center, I happened to get only one or two signal lines even though internet speed was pretty decent.
I should be based in Schaffhausen with my work a it off the main regions around Diessenhofen and Stein am Rhein (small localities) ans with the new summer deals emerging, I consider taking a Salt mobile Abo or Sunrise.
I've heard that people have had bad experiences with Salt's customer service but I shouldn't need that, the most importnat for me is the coverage in those regions i'll be working.
Have some of you had some experience with Salt's coverage in remote areas? or should I just Avoid it ?
Talking from my personal experience, when I was with Salt, it was not possible (or with very long delays) to receive SMS codes to log in some applications which require double authentication (ex: digital signature app). Moreover, inside my house (old house with very thick walls), Salt signal is almost dead.
When I changed to Sunrise, all the troubles above are gone.
Same... I found that the only place with reasonable coverage with sunrise is my cellar. The rest of the house is a dead zone. Similarly, on the road to work, there are 2 deadzones.
We were with Swisscom before, and I could have a conf call from Zurich to Ticino on the train. Now, it's impossible. I was told by sunrise that moving vehicles/trains cause a bad signal...
My company moved from swisscom to sunrise... was such a pain.
Where I used to be able to join a call while on my way to Lugano, or from a train somewhere, now I have to make sure I'm stopped somewhere and not on a train or in a car.
I really wish we went back to swisscom... search for sunrise on this forum, you'll see a ton of annoyed users... the coverage sucks
50 CHF per month, unlimited everything not only in CH, but also from / to / within the EU, which is very important to me.
AND there is no Mindestvertragsdauer. Really does sound too good to be true (especially the roaming data limits - 40GB? That’s a LOT.).
The Swisscom equivalent would be 70 CHF*, with more limitations. (* EDIT: actually, it’s 70 CHF for the first 6 months only, then 80 CHF. How much I hate this kind of advertising I cannot express without getting banned probably…)
The catch is that no MVNO is going to get priority over the primary network users when the network traffic is heavy, so lower data speeds. Whether that is a regular issue with Swisscom and for where you use it, is hard to say.
Swisscom also offer additional services that last time I looked none of the MVNOs offer. Particularly relevant for me is multi/virtual SIM where I can share my data connection with my iPad and Apple Watch.
I have a cheap corporate deal with Swisscom for use in CH and then use an eSIM with Ubigi for roaming. Based on prior experience and other reviews, I wouldn’t consider Salt or Sunrise.
Salt worked fine for me. Even had 4G modem to work from home and decent data transfer rates (around 20 MBps up/down).
But, after 24 months the discounted plan from Salt ended and they did not offer another cheap plan. I just switched to Sunrise for the phones because corporate discount (50%), and home internet with digital republic (running on Sunrise 5G network). Internet speed it about the same I had with Salt 4G. For 15 CHF/month, I cannot complain
Back to OP's question, just get a phone signal booster for your car and stop worrying.
Yes, I have Digital Republic now and during peak times at around train stations the data connection is basically unusable. Are you saying that if I had an abo with Sunrise directly it would be better?
Anyway, this is something I can live with (saving 20/30 CHF per month), so if otherwise it works as advertised.... I'm a happy camper!
I've been using for some time both Salt and YalloSwype (sunrise network) on a dual SIM 4G phone. Salt was much better in Vaud/Valais, Sunrise in Zurich. Of course nearly all across the Switzerland you got spots where only one or the other worked. I don't roam that often nowadays so I resigned from Salt which has terrible coverage at my current place.
But yeah, if you need to have reliable network you may consider two deals for 20 to 25 CHF/m and dual SIM phone, or one SIM from Swisscom
If you do not mind the commitment for 2 years this is the best deal:
unlimited in Switzerland and 1gb roaming, (sunrise network) 11CHF per month https://www.talktalk.ch/
else if you do not need the roaming or prefer to be able to quit before 2 years, or you like salt better, https://www.go-mo.ch/ for 10chf per month
It's not really about the coverage but the cost of your mobile plan.
One of my friend works as a network technician and explained that the coverage is mostly the same for every provider. What makes the difference is the priority on the network your mobile plan provides. If you have a low cost plan, you will have low or no priority and have a reduced speed/bad calling quality during the periods of heavy network use. If you have a premium mobile plan you will have "priority" on the network.
I had a low cost unlimited plan in Sunrise, it was not very good. I switched to Salt with a premium plan and it was way better even if on paper Sunrise has better coverage.
I had the same bad experience with an unlimited data plan with Sunrise and with yallo. In the train during rush hours almost unusable at some parts. It was much better with salt.
I would expect that they do not give priority to yallo. But with the normal Sunrise it was equally bad.
I had Salt, then Yallo and both were okayish, but network coverage was pain sometimes. I commute daily between silver coast and Zurich city center and always had a trouble with network on the way in a train. At some points (e.g. one point near Thalwil) I was losing network completele every time.
I switched to Wingo last year, and the difference is major. Coverage is better and internet is quicker.