Communication Means
This page introduces the best deals and hints for mobile phone plans, free SMS, and hi-speed internet.
Mobile Phone plans
Three Swiss major mobile communications exist in Switzerland: Orange, Sunrise, and SwissCom.
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Orange+
To take advantage of the Orange Optima 30+ and SMS X-treme price reduction: Be a USI or Franklin student,
Go to Netcomm, not to the regular Orange shops or kiosks,
until Dec 25th, preferably on Wednesday
...see below:
Orange+ offer for USI students - in cooperation among EESTEC, Netcomm and Orange
o We have arranged with Netcomm (www.netcomms.ch) and Orange a great student offer Student+ which means that USI student registered at can take an Orange student offer without paying for a SIM card (40chf with otherwise)
o If you still dont have a valid residence permit you can take the pre-paid phone number which can be transferred into contract as soon as you get a permit
Here we describe the most interesting Orange offers:
Orange Optima30 student (25CHF/month) offer provides you:
- 30 minutes of conversation to all Swiss networks and all European countries and US (see the list of countries here). Over this limit all calls are 0.45CHF per minute.
- 30 international SMS, each over this limit costs 0.2CHF
- 2MB of data for internet surfing
- 3 preferred phone numbers friends to call for free all the time
- free calls to all Orange and Swiss landline phones from 7pm to 7am and weekends
- Recommendation program (50CHF if you are referred by someone and 100CHF when you refer someone)
- Recycling program - 50CHF (100CHF if you go at Office on Wednesday) for your old phone
- full overview and control over your Orange account over Internet
- Brand new phone of your choice
Orange SMS X-treme student offer (19CHF/month) provides you:
- 230 international SMS, each over this limit costs 0.19CHF
- calls to all networks for 0.5CHF per minute.
- 2MB of data for internet surfing
- 3 preferred phone numbers friends to call for free all the time
- free calls to all Orange and Swiss landline phones from 7pm to 7am and weekends
- Recommendation program (50CHF if you are referred by someone and 100CHF when you refer someone)
- Recycling program - 50CHF (100CHF if you go at Office on Wednesday) for your old phone
- full overview and control over your Orange account over Internet
- Brand new phone of your choice
Notes: The maximum number of contracts one can get is three. Take care to avoid any extra options (the travel option is useful if you do Roaming). They subtract the 7.6%TVA from 250 for CHF 231; all you need to do is pay your first bill. USI students get the SIM card free (40CHF).
When you mention EESTEC, you're auto-referred at NetComm - unlike a normal referral, the chain is always closed:
Map to NetComm: (click to enlarge)
o We have arranged with Netcomm (www.netcomms.ch) and Orange a great student offer Student+ which means that USI student registered at can take an Orange student offer without paying for a SIM card (40chf with otherwise)
o If you still dont have a valid residence permit you can take the pre-paid phone number which can be transferred into contract as soon as you get a permit
Here we describe the most interesting Orange offers:
Orange Optima30 student (25CHF/month) offer provides you:
- 30 minutes of conversation to all Swiss networks and all European countries and US (see the list of countries here). Over this limit all calls are 0.45CHF per minute.
- 30 international SMS, each over this limit costs 0.2CHF
- 2MB of data for internet surfing
- 3 preferred phone numbers friends to call for free all the time
- free calls to all Orange and Swiss landline phones from 7pm to 7am and weekends
- Recommendation program (50CHF if you are referred by someone and 100CHF when you refer someone)
- Recycling program - 50CHF (100CHF if you go at Office on Wednesday) for your old phone
- full overview and control over your Orange account over Internet
- Brand new phone of your choice
Orange SMS X-treme student offer (19CHF/month) provides you:
- 230 international SMS, each over this limit costs 0.19CHF
- calls to all networks for 0.5CHF per minute.
- 2MB of data for internet surfing
- 3 preferred phone numbers friends to call for free all the time
- free calls to all Orange and Swiss landline phones from 7pm to 7am and weekends
- Recommendation program (50CHF if you are referred by someone and 100CHF when you refer someone)
- Recycling program - 50CHF (100CHF if you go at Office on Wednesday) for your old phone
- full overview and control over your Orange account over Internet
- Brand new phone of your choice
Notes: The maximum number of contracts one can get is three. Take care to avoid any extra options (the travel option is useful if you do Roaming). They subtract the 7.6%TVA from 250 for CHF 231; all you need to do is pay your first bill. USI students get the SIM card free (40CHF).
When you mention EESTEC, you're auto-referred at NetComm - unlike a normal referral, the chain is always closed:
Map to NetComm: (click to enlarge)
See more Orange details on these and other offers at orange.ch/../Young/..
Free SMSing
Having official residence In Switzerland, you can register at postmail.ch and get 50 SMS per month for free.
Logged-in USI students can also send SMSs for free from https://websms.switch.ch/websms/sms.php
Most providers (Orange, Sunrise), provide free SMS from their portals.
Internet Access
Cable from CableCom is the fastest, most reliable, and cheapest option, but not available everywhere. (www.cablecom.ch)
ADSL is available in all regions, but requires a landline phone number (see sunrise, orange.ch, swisscom.ch, tele2.ch)
Free wireless Internet access hot-spots point are drawn on www.map24.ch/.../..swisscom.php