Talk:Switzerland/@comment-190.189.147.46-20180509232705/@comment-24682153-20180510104845

Hi.. Generally we recommend to buy the SIM card in the first port of entry to the EU roaming zone. This would be Germany in your case. But Switzerland makes things very complicated. It's not member of the EU or the roaming zone. Roaming will work in Switzerland, but at very high prices. Vodafone Germany charges you €0.20 for 50 KB. That's more than €4000 for a GB roaming in Switzerland.

There are three options for you left:

1.) Buy in Germany one of the few providers that offer Switzerland at EU roaming rates. That's only Deutsche Telekom for now with quite high prices (€10 for 1GB) and a sometimes tricky registration (check Germany chapter).

2.) Buy online (like on eBay.co.uk)  before your trip a Vodafone UK (not Vodafone Germany) SIM card. They include Switzerland to their roaming zone and you will get e.g. 20 GB in all of your destination countries for GBP 30 plus delivery.

3.) Buy any German SIM mentioned in our Germany chapter and use it in Germany, Italy, France and buy a separate SIM for Switzerland shown in the article above. This is recommended, when you use a lot of data there or stay for longer in Switzerland.