Mobile Internet Arrives in Germany

When I first heard about the 25 EUR Base UMTS Internet Flatrate I was thrilled. Then I really complained because you needed a second SIM card to use it. Ever heard of Bluetooth and UMTS phones? I went as far as complaining to both the support line as well as their press people. In the end, one of their press representatives called, I threatened with the blog of course ;), and explained their view to me, which revolved around the fact that billing it on one card would be harder and that they really saw it as a replacement for internet at the home.

I was however reassured that they would be looking into it and only 3 months later I see a change. If you look at this page on base.de, you will see that the footnote changed, if you speak german. There is now the option to either have this on your normal SIM card or on a second one. Rock on! This is affordable always online! This is where the mobile internet has to move. Add stuff like Mabber, Moblogging via Flickr, SyncML, Bluetooth and lots of train travel and you are having something that the mobile internet can really be used to. Yeah, I am a big supporter of FON, but that is not, and will not be, available everywhere. This will. My second phone from T-Mobile still has two months to go on its included bandwidth plan but I am pretty sure to enable this base thing pretty soon. Thanks Base!

P.S.: VoIP is excluded, but you have to give them something ;)

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