Talk:Vodafone Germany/@comment-68.108.31.77-20170530095702/@comment-3564598-20170601210955

Also note that you can only apply if you have an actual Vodafone SIM. When I arrived in Berlin two days ago, the Vodafone store in Kurfürstendamm across from Europa-Center (closest to my hotel) wanted 55€ (yes, really!) for a CallYa SIM card with Smartphone Special tariff pre-activated. I said no, went to Telekom (passed by two O2 stores and a E-Plus/BASE?? store on the way because I was concerned about their network) where I was told they offered no prepaid SIMs at that store, and told me to go to the Saturn in Europa-Center, they sell prepaid SIMs and they will register me properly. Bought a SIM there for 10 € with 15 € credit, they asked for my passport for registration, they registered me, and inside the pack (which looks very much like the Vodafone starter packs in the Vodafone store) was a Mobilcom-Debitel SIM. It works like a Vodafone SIM, I seem to have the same CallYa Smartphone Special tariff I would have on a regular Vodafone SIM, but the 10GB offer is not available for it (and also, I had to register for an account with Mobilcom-Debitel's website instead of Vodafone).

From the Vodafone support forum (which I found with Google):

Und hier noch eine Übersicht möglicher Gründe, warum die Teilnahme nicht funktioniert bzw. die Promo nicht in der App angezeigt wird:



* Provider-Kunde (Mobilcom-Debitel usw.)



So, if the free data offer is important (during the promotional period) make sure you get an actual Vodafone SIM (no other logo, only Vodafone). The packet did have a Mobilcom-Debitel logo, I just thought they were a distributor, not a separate provider, since they sell the exact same tariffs as the actual MNO.