Cheap International Calls from Germany: What Options Exist and What Actually Works
In Germany, it’s easy to get used to domestic calls barely affecting your budget, but international calling rates often become an unpleasant surprise.
What People Usually Choose and Where the Downsides Are
- International add-ons from your mobile operator: sometimes convenient, but often limited by countries, plan conditions, or expensive pricing for specific destinations.
- Prepaid calling cards and access codes: sometimes offer a good price, but they’re inconvenient — extra codes, hard to control the real cost for your exact number, and call quality may vary.
- Calls via messengers: can be free, but only work if the other person uses the same messenger and has a stable internet connection; also not always suitable for calling regular mobile and landline numbers.
Where People Most Often Call from Germany
If you live or work in Germany, you usually have a few “go-to” destinations — family, friends, acquaintances, or business contacts. Often these are countries like Eritrea, Ethiopia, Russia, Uganda, Poland, and others where you need to reach someone quickly without extra hurdles.
There’s also the reverse situation: when you travel or live abroad but need to call Germany on regular numbers — family, customer service, delivery, rentals, or a bank. In those cases, “messenger-only” often doesn’t help: not everyone is ready to take calls in apps, and sometimes you specifically need a call to a mobile or landline number.
An Alternative That Removes These Downsides: Telz
Telz is an app for international calls over the internet. The idea is simple: don’t depend on your mobile operator’s international billing and be able to call regular mobile and landline numbers in 200+ countries.
- You can easily check rates by destination and number type in one place — on the Telz rates page.
- Before you start a call, the app shows the per-minute price for your specific destination, so there are no unpleasant surprises.
How to Dial Correctly So the Call Goes Through
Save and dial contacts only in international format: plus sign, country code, then the number. A key rule: don’t add a leading “0” before the country code and don’t mix local formatting with international format — this is the most common cause of dialing errors. Example for Germany: +49(XXX)-XXX-XX-XX.
Summary
If you need to call abroad regularly from Germany, operator add-ons can be limited, calling cards can be inconvenient, and messengers don’t always work for regular numbers. Telz becomes a practical alternative when you need stable calls to mobile and landline numbers in popular destinations and other countries.
Download Telz and start saving today.