Wingo same roaming partner as Swisscom?

funkfuchs You can find Swisscom’s partners here, then simply enter the relevant country. For our western neighbors this results:

@Gaeilgeoir

That is clear, but the question arises as to whether this only applies to Swisscom or also to Wingo?

---

@hed wrote:

@Gaeilgeoir

That is clear, but the question arises as to whether this only applies to Swisscom or also to Wingo?

---

It is very likely that the roaming agreements in the “blue” product and the “wingo” product are identical, because the foreign ISP’s contractual partner for both products is Swisscom and it would make absolutely no economic sense to conclude individual product-specific roaming agreements.

Theoretically, it would be conceivable not to allow all existing Swisscom roaming options on the Wingo SIM cards on the Swisscom side, but why should you do that, because after all you can earn quite a bit of money with it.

@hed I know that too, but @funkfuchs shouted “I’m assuming that the roaming partners are the same as Swisscom itself.” which leads me to the conclusion that he didn’t know where to look up the Swisscom partners, hence the link. After all, he tested Wingo 3 providers for France, while in SC there are 4, at least for telephony.

So last year I switched from Yallo (=Sunrise) to Wingo (=Swisscom network).

Because of Corona, I haven’t really been outside Switzerland much in the last two years.

This year I was briefly in France and once in Germany for 2 days. I also had 2 cell phones with me on the last business trip, the company cell phone is Sunrise and my private cell phone is Wingo.

In Germany, my Wingo cell phone was first registered on the “Telekom.de” network, then at some point on the “Vodafone.de” network and I think once it was also briefly on the “O2-de” network. As far as I can remember, both cell phones were almost always on the same network. Maybe for once the Sunrise would remain in the Telekom network, while my Wingo was already in the Vodafone network.

In France I only had the Wingo cell phone with me. Most of the time I was booked into “Orange-F”. When I went into a store and came out again, I noticed that it had switched to the “Bouygues” network.

I suspect that these days people simply choose the strongest network available.

This used to be different, since Swisscom had (or still has?) a partnership with Vodafon, it was probably a priority. Because my Swisscom cell phone logged into the Vodafone network whenever possible, only in one place in the Black Forest where the network was exclusively with Deutsche Telekom did the device switch to the Telekom network. The Sunrise cell phone, on the other hand, almost always dialed into the O2 network in Germany and the SFR network in France.

However, you could basically dial into another network by manually selecting the network. But if you then switched back to “Automatic network selection”, the device immediately switched back to the favorite network.

I think things are different today because my Wingo cell phone was on the Telekom network for long stretches.

But that wasn’t the question.

I think that Wingo, as an MVNO, will have exactly the same roaming partners as Swisscom itself (this will probably also be the case with Coop Mobile and M-Budget Mobile, which ultimately all run over the Swisscom network)

It’s the same with Sunrise, Yallo will have exactly the same roaming partners as Sunrise itself (Yallo is just a second brand of Sunrise and not its own company).

As has already been written, Swisscom will conclude roaming contracts and everyone who uses the same network infrastructure will also use the same roaming partners.

In addition to the Yallo, I also have a Swisscom prepaid card on my dual SIM device if I want to test it out. But I don’t think it will make any difference, especially since the networks can also be selected manually. Which network you are automatically booked into is probably always a bit of a coincidence.

---

@MagicMax wrote:

It’s the same with Sunrise, Yallo will have exactly the same roaming partners as Sunrise itself (Yallo is just a second brand of Sunrise and not its own company).

Also applies to Wingo vs. Swisscom (Wingo was once Swisscom’s own (subsidiary) company, but has long been only a second brand within Swisscom. The general terms and conditions of Wingo are those of Swisscom

It could also have been a coincidence.

See my post here: [https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Mobile/Automatische-Netzwahl-im-Roaming-Zutzenprinzip/td-p/777687](https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Mobile /automatic-network-selection-in-roaming-random-principle/td-p/777687)

@Lauplupreu83

There are no different roaming partners at Wingo or Swisscom! At most, the preferred roaming partner can be different in one country.

I saw that recently in Italy too, different providers, but both devices were identical and with Swisscom Abo… But that was probably just a coincidence for you too!

The purchase of Vodafone Italia has not yet been completed. Sooner or later the preferred roaming partner will definitely become Vodafone, but the other partners in a country like Italy will definitely remain the same.