My partner has a Yallo Mobile subscription for CHF ~25. Last week she called the sales hotline and asked for a discount on the same subscription (because I have the same, but cheaper). The sales hotline said that Yallo no longer offers such big discounts. Five minutes later, she called the cancellation hotline and worked out a deal: 40% discount if she rates the hotline employee well in the survey afterwards. The deal proposal came from the hotline employee.
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I experienced similar situations before and it makes totally sense from an economical perspective. They save time and money by not arguing with customers that will stay even without a better offer.
From a consumer perspective it’s intransparent, however as soon as you got to know the game, you can probably get better deals* than the average consumer in a fully transparent world. 
*as your own subscription prices illustrates well
I just moved in a brand new apartment which require Wifi to control pretty much everything (like thermostat, lights, blinds).
Till now i didn’t have any wifi and did everything with the hotspot, but now i’m looking for a cheap internet solution.
I found something called Green.ch
Do you guys have any experience with them ? Is this worth it ? I found an offer for 1Gbit/s for 16.45 chf/month…
Let me know, appreciate your help!
Check the details! The low price is only in the first 12 months but you have to stay for 24.
Over 24months you’ll pay 1087.20 in total which is 45.3 CHF/month.
I would go with Galaxus instead (10Gbit, 39.-/month or cheaper if you have other family/friends members + 79.- activation). Will be cheaper, more flexible and faster.
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My experience with Digital Republic has been very good so far.
So, if I am using Galaxus Internet with a total of 5 family members, then it gets cheaper by CHF 4?
Can a family member also use the internet solution for his household, so two Galaxus internet through the Friends + Family, do you know that by any chance?
Yes this works:
- you have galaxus internet, 4 friends have galaxus internet
- you have galaxus internet, 4 friends have galaxus mobile (phone contract, also good deal)
or any mix between those.
Note that it counts per person, so you having galaxus mobile and galaxus internet still only counts as 1.
In both 1 and 2 each member will pay 4.- less on their subscription (internet or mobile).
You can push this game further by having one of the family being a student or at a company that has a deal with galaxus and the whole thing goes down another 3-4 CHF for everyone.*
*Here I am not sure whether that will work for the internet or only the mobile.
It sounds complicated (but all written in their FAQs), but even if you don’t do these tricks, the internet would still be a good deal IMO.
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I didn’t know about Digital Republic.. interesting! So you went with the 20.-CHF package and internet seems good so far ?
Had Digital Republic as Internet in a clubhouse for a long time, always worked well. A friend said that MVNO such as Digitec Galaxus, Digital Republik, Aldi Suisse Mobile etc. are subject to the same fair use conditions as Sunrise, as Sunrise applies them to the entire network. I don’t know whether this is true. From the fair use conditions of Sunrise:
Excessive use of mobile network services can cause capacity problems and impair network performance, which has a direct effect on other mobile network customers’ user experience. In order to prevent this situation, Sunrise will temporarily deprioritize the 4G, 4G+ and 5G data traffic of customers who reach a certain limit value:
- First deprioritization: A first deprioritization is carried out for customers whose monthly data usage is higher than 97% of all other customers, based on an average determined on a quarterly basis (status November 2022: approx. 100 GB per month).
- Second deprioritization: An additional deprioritization is carried out within the same month for customers whose monthly data usage is higher than 99.98% of all other customers, based on an average determined on a quarterly basis (status November 2022: approx. 500 GB per month).
Customers whose data has been deprioritized may notice reduced mobile speed at locations and times of day when the mobile network is overloaded. This generally only becomes noticeable when carrying out more data-intensive activities. On antenna cells that are not overloaded, deprioritization will have no effect on broadband speed.
I think that’s pretty fair. And better than Swisscom and Sunrise, which do not provide any precise information on what fair use means.
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I have a Flat 10 in our holiday home and the Flat 30 in our apartment. Both work fine.
You can even pause the subscription if you don’t need the connection for some time (e.g. 2 month trip abroad).
You can also take the router with you if you go on a trip in Switzerland.
Plus customer service is great.
It ticks all my boxes.
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