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That’s a quite good deal. There are some barriers with Digi that makes them exclusive:

• Only people who are willing and able to use ItsMe can place an order with Digi. ItsMe is a Cloudflare service which is a US tech giant who discriminates against several demographics of people and triggers a lot of ethical issues. So I will not have anything to do with ItsMe.
• Strangely, the ItsMe authentication that Digi uses demands a phone number. Did it occur to them that someone ordering a phone subscription may not have a phone? (I happen to have a phone [without credit] so it wouldn’t stop me, but I still like to call out incompetence when it appears)
• I don’t like the discrimination against unbanked people and apparently there is no way to get that 5€/month plan without patronizing a bank.

I prefer prepaid because unbanked cash payers are not excluded (apart from some exceptions). And because use-it-or-lose-it within a time limit is designed for people to pay for more than their consumption.

Orange prepaid is 15 €c/min. So at €5/month that amounts to 33 min/month, which is probably the max I would use in a month. On average I would use less. So an Orange top-up for €15 would last me longer than 3 months. Even though 15 €c/min is a terrible price, it’s still cheaper than Digi for my consumption strictly in terms of voice calls. The 15gb of data really puts Digi ahead for me, but the exclusivity factors still prevail. I can’t stomach the thought of supporting Digi’s forced Cloudflare and forced banking policy. Digi will test my ability to stand by my ethics.

I appreciate your feedback nonetheless. The one thing Digi does for me is at least they add to the competition which should keep prices under control. Phone booths would serve anyone including tourists & cash payers. Prepaid GSM is the next closest service to that market. The quite a big pricing gap between prepaid and post paid plans seems to reflect the indirectness of that competition.