Hi,

could anyone help me in suggesting the most economical mobile connection to take for calls to india.. i have checked with sunrise, swisscom and orange..and couldnt find anything lesser than 2chf/min... or is there any other economical way of calling to india...

Regards
Sumit

Try: http://www.lycamobile.ch/rates.aspx?lang=EN

Go for either LycaMobile or Lebara, both of these are for low cost calls to India. Do note that local calls in these are expensive.

Additionally, if you really talk a lot to India, you could do this:
1. Buy a Sunrise phone with Sunrise Flat connection. With this use can call any landline/Sunrise number in CH for 1 CHF per day.
2. Buy a Teleline(www.teleline.ch) flat Calling card at 20 CHF/month, and use it with the Sunrise number. With the Teleline card you can call India as much as you wish to.

So effectively at 50 CHF/month you can call India as much as you like.

Thanks ankur.. would like to know whether its possible to have the teline with swisscom.

Aslo does sunrise charge using teleline. If yes they would charge per call , talk time or per month.

Does it have to be a mobile?

Might be cheaper with a land line or VOIP or skype...

Teleswiss.ch
Dial from your landline .after the message dial country code followed by the no. You wish to dial.

I use lebara to call once a while, otherwise VoiP is the best/cheapest (rynga, etc.)

Hi there,

Thank you for mentioning Lebara. Please let me know if you have any doubts/queries relating to Lebara and I will be more than happy to help.

Pooja
(Lebara CS)

Skype is very competitive to these other providers (give or take 1rp) and you don't have to call a number and redial etc, just straight forward calling directly over the internet.

read up on VoIP. there is no reason to pay more than 5 ct a minute to call India.

and sometimes even free ( as with my Aussie VOIP provider ).

Yeh but which provider is providing that at that price?

Why not use www.budgettraife.ch numbers - for India it is:

[Destination Fixed tariff Rp/min Access Number dial-in fee (Rp)

India [landline] Fixed tariff: 4 0840 55 66 39 0
India [Mobile] Fixed tariff: 4 0840 55 66 39 0

Cheaper than Swisscom etc.

Another option for you:
www.calleasy.com 2 cents per minute to India. You can do it with every provider. If you use Swisscom, then you can have the Natel liberty start and pay 19 CHF / month + 0.70/hr for the fixed landline calls. So 1 hour talk with India will cost you 1.9 CHF (excluding the fix fee of 19 CHF).