Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately many of the deals in Switzerland currently cover neighbouring countries or Balkans while I need Sweden.
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The price chart at Galaxus (or toppreise) is great to check whether there is a real discount.
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sounds very familiar:)
With Viber, you’d have your own number as a caller id.
Though that doesnt solve the issue of not taxing her for calls.
I see an option here, similar to Viber, but that might suit your situation better.
https://www.mytello.com/de_CH/tarife
With them, you could actually select the output country.
e.g if you set your outgoing number to be germany, it doesnt matter that you call from Albania, Sweden or any other country.
This does allso avoid taxing her, because she’d always call the same german number or whichever you’d choose.
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Thank you for this suggestion. It looks like a brilliant even if slightly complicated solution for a novice like me.
Today I spoke with GGA and decided to give them a try for Chf 19.95 as suggested by @impromptu4930 above. This gives me generous coverage for normal usage. When my mother starts acting up again I will use one of the fix line solutions you suggested. Thank you so much 
Today I spoke with GGA to clarify that I can cancel at any time despite the 24 month contract. They guarantee the monthly fee of Chf 19.95 as described by @impromptu4930 plus they give me the extra Chf 5/month sim for free (after I pay Chf 40 for the main sim).
Interestingly the sales person mentioned that they are moving all their clients from Sunrise to Swisscom in the summer so I expect to get improved coverage in the mountains and at peak times when the Sunrise network can be wobbly as everyone is streaming/gaming at the same time.
As my porting date is end march I do not expect any problems with leaving Quickline. The three month cancellation notice is honoured.
Thank you to everyone who helped me find a solution post Quickline. 
The only thing I bought this season: yubikeys (still 30% off at their website)
Yubikey!
Ha! I remember getting one of their original products when I joined my Internet start up in 2005. Don’t even recall what they were called, but essentially it was a seeded challenge response calculator.
You entered your at least 12 digit number to activate it, it would prompt you for a (IIRC) 6 (or 8?) digit challenge, and would spit out a 6 (or 8?) digit response.
Given the number of times the engineers using the device bricked it – after 3 times of entering the wrong activation code it would brick, IIRC – I believe GOOG alone must have financed the company until it became (more) profitable with other applications and devices.
In fact, IIRC, one of the Google security engineers who just left Google before I joined (he cashed out on the IPO in 2004) went on to join Yubikey because he pursued his passion. Had he stayed at Google, he’d probably be a (low to mid single digit) billionaire. Now he’s probably just a triple digit millionaire.
Sometime life is cruel.
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