Cost savings vs. network coverage for cell phone and mobile data

gaijin

gaijin

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I recently switched to spusu. Their black Friday offer last year (free calling in Switzerland plus 1 GB of data for Switzerland and EU at CHF. 4.80 per month) was simply unbeatable. spusu is based on the Salt network.

I was conscious of the fact that Salt might not have the best network coverage but decided to accept that. Since I spend quite a bit of time in the mountains in the summer I have recently become more aware of this lower coverage. Before that I was thinking of switching my mother to spusu as well. However, with these recent experiences plus further testimonials from mountain loving friends that Salt is a no-go for them, I am hesitating. Swisscom seems to have a better network coverage, but this comes at a cost. No Swisscom based offers comes close to the cheapest offerings for the Salt or Sunrise network. I am now thinking that a good network coverage should also have a value and have my mother pay a bit more (around CHF 7 per month) for the better network coverage of Swisscom.
I would appreciate any thoughts or challenges from all of you on this idea.
 
For me, the quality of the network is also important, and I won't consider anything else than Swisscom for me. I am aware that I may be biased, but I can live with that.

On the Swisscom network, the cheapest offers that I know are the Mucho offers, but they are prepaid only I believe.
 
I use the Mucho Mini abo CHF 9.90 /month (now on offer 8.90 plus 35 activation) because it's the only way of having network coverage inside some buildings in Bern where I work. My girlfriend uses Spusu CHF 9.90/month (activation was free).
It's true that Mucho has way better coverage (also in the mountains), but since they switched off 3G the quality of the coverage went down.
 
Baptiste Wicht said:
Oh. I did not think about that. Is Swisscom coverage now worse?
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I used to have full or 3 lines coverage with 3G, now it's mostly 1 line or none with 4G or 5G in some buildings. Unfortunately I cannot call every time and I had no problems before. We also adapted and started using the Walkie-Talkies.
 
danb said:
now on offer 8.90
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Wow, I was not aware of that. I looked at Wingo which is where I thought that I would find the cheapest price. But 8.90 is actually great, that's even cheaper than the spusu plan that I looked at for my mother (CHF 9.90 for 5GB data). The 500MB of roaming data might be on the lower end if she happens to travel twice in a month. But still, a great deal.
 
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