Revolut has launched Revolut Mobile in Germany, a €14.99-a-month mobile plan that customers sign up for and manage inside its app. It runs on Telefónica Deutschland's network with 1GLOBAL as technical partner. It includes 120 GB of 5G data, unlimited calls within Germany, 40 GB of EU roaming and eSIM support, and the fee can be paid partly with RevPoints. Germany is the fourth market after the UK, Poland and the Netherlands.

What it means: Revolut does not want to be a telecoms operator for the plan revenue but to bring customers into its app more often and keep them longer. Every added service, from insurance to mobile, makes switching to another bank harder. That is the super-app logic already common in Asia and spreading in Europe mainly through neobanks. For Greek banks, the example shows that competition is no longer only about rates and fees but about how useful the app is in everyday life. For Greek telecoms operators, it suggests that wholesale network access can become a distribution channel through third parties with large customer bases. If Revolut brings the service to Greece, where it has a sizeable user base, it will need a local network partner and compliance with EETT rules. For smaller businesses, linking subscriptions to rewards is an idea that also works at a modest scale, for example in loyalty apps built for local chains.

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