It’s a flat rate subscription for CHF 55 / month. You don‘t pay more than that each month.
(unless you making calls/texts while roaming - but abroad is abroad and so are many subscriptions).
The „Fair“ thing about it is that you pay less if you use less.
It‘s just that they‘ve chosen to emphasise their minimum „fair“ price rather the maximum in advertising.
Also, CHF 55 isn‘t really cheap, when you get unlimited EU roaming data for 50,- at Salt and Sunrise.
This is what I got now…
Private number in-porting is big no no
And then this…
“ but on newer iPhone models it is possible to activate any mobile number on the embedded eSIM. However, there is no support from *** IT for this. Thank you for understanding!”
It seems to me like, just go ahead and do it by yourself. They did not say it is not permitted or blocked.
Or am I being too optimistic?
Well, it directly contradicts the previous statement above („does not allow me to use e-sim in iPhone for personal phone number.“) that eSIM aren‘t allowed for personal numbers, doesn‘t it?
That said, if this is what they told you (and the company doesn’t prohibit it in other regulations), it sounds as if you’re good to go - it’s just unsupported?!
Yes, a different person responded this time.
The one before did make many spelling errors in English too. So it might be his limited vocabulary issue than eSIM.
In 2 months, when my private plan ends, I’ll stay with Salt, and covert to prepay eSIM. They charge 60 CHF for ESIM(horrible, some other give it for free) but they are the only ones that allow WiFi calling abroad (even on prepay). So I don’t have to worry about roaming fee when in border regions (which includes my office) and occasional cross border trips.
Edit: instead of call/sms forwarding, the above solution with WiFi-calling (using work sim internet) gets me the same result: receiving calls/sms on private number and single device for cheap/free. (Salt makes it free on roaming too)
omg.
How does wifi calling works? I don’t understand it. You can’t see if the call is over wifi or not. For what I’ve understood, wifi calling is a scam, they use your wifi for data, but they bill you like you are using their infrastucture.
I have never used it, but from what I have read, I understand that all calls and sms (incoming and outgoing) are routed through internet (either wi-fi or cellular data on same sim/other sim). And the carrier charges you ‘normal’ prices as per your plan, as if you are using their infrastructure.
If I only receive calls/sms on my private sim, it should be free on my private sim carrier. (the internet used is either wi-fi or the cellular internet of my other/work sim).
If I make calls / send sms from my private sim, I get charged the prices in my plan.
i found that salt is the only one that lets you use wi-fi calling while abroad (so that you don’t pay roaming charges, but domestic use charges only). swisscom/sunrise/ etc only allow wifi calling when you are within switzerland. (article on alao , same info on salt)
One big advantage of wifi calling is that if you’re in a building with bad cellular coverage but have good wifi, you can still make phone calls without problems.
Can you force to always use WiFi calling?
Either as a setting in phone or simply enabling WiFi calling and switching off SIM card ( equivalent to no cellular signal)
Edit: I am assuming at least 1 sim has always on data.
If you switch off your SIM entirely, it wouldn’t be Wi-Fi calling through your mobile carrier.
But you can use Wi-Fi calling in airplane mode (enable airplane mode, selectively enable Wi-Fi).
Note that Wifi calls use a lot of battery.
Interesting, are switching sim off and airplane mode technically different (wrt carrier signal reception) ? I could not find anything relevant on that.
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I always thought airplane mode will disable all signals including carrier signals.
Huh? Well compared to GSM calls maybe but I’m pretty sure compared to a Whatsapp, or whatever other data based call app, not really.
On an iPhone, yes.
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This could be a cheap solution (salt network) : Smart-abo | L’Abo idéal c’est Lidl.
Or the swiss 500mb from UPC (sunrise network) : Des abonnements Mobile pour la Suisse et l’Europe | UPC
Lidl offer is indeed interesting, salt at the back, and WiFi calling works abroad too (as per Lidl website) no word about eSIM though 
I just found this
I might even sign up already and run it in parallel to my current contract which runs out next summer.
Thanks!
A friend of mine just installed a new infotainment system in his car and now needs a SIM to use all the features. Only catch that I see is that there’s no roaming? So if he travels abroad the system won’t work.
I won‘t need roaming with that sim card, I‘ll just get an e-sim/physical sim when I need it. At the moment I pay 35.-/month (Salt unlimited in Switzerland, 4GB roaming) and mainly use it for data, 20GB should be enough for me. So I can save 360.-/year
Lidl shows the package as costing 19.95.- and 11.95.- on the same page. 12 CHF would be a great deal…
maybe, that the SIM is “data-only”…? So, no voice over this SIM…
