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After getting caught out with the Three outage on Friday, I'm going to get a MiFi device with an alternative provider. Lyca are doing a £10 a month deal for unlimited (fair use) everything including up to 35 gb of roaming, which looks to be a stonking deal. They operate on EE, so we'll see how they get on. Time to retire the more expensive Voxi sim.
https://www.lycamobile.co.uk/en/bundle/go-unlimited/
I'm in the process of switching to them and so far I'm not impressed, they've twice now failed to port my number across and they've also no record of what data package I should be on either. My number has left my old SIM already so is hopefully going to be transferred before the PAT code expires as I've had the same number since 1999!
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Well it's a week later and the sim hasn't arrived 🤦🏻♂️
Watching with interest as I left Plusnet to go to ID Mobile but a lack of signal at home is killing the battery (and making it hard to make or receive phone calls}.
also watching with interest, we signed up for a Lycamobile pakcage for Mrs NBT over the weekend.
Well it’s a week later and the sim hasn’t arrived 🤦🏻♂️
Mine either. I signed up last weekend, its showing as dispatched but hasn't moved on the tracking since Wednesday.
Sim arrived and I've got it setup in the MiFi device. Registration on the lyca site was a bit random, but it now appears to be working. Decentish speed here as well.
£10 a month for all you can eat everything (450 gb data fair use limit) should be a decent backup.
My colleague’s wife tried them. Complete rubbish. No Wi-Fi calling despite being advertised but basically no service anyway - I lost count of the times my colleague tried and failed to get through to her and at one point she couldn’t make outgoing calls at all.
He did not recommend!
After finally getting my number assigned to my Sim I'm not overly impressed with the service. Data works perfectly but calls are hit and miss. Getting better the more I use it though so hopefully it's just teething troubles.
I honestly thought that Lyca Mobile was only used by drug dealers and people trying to avoid getting caught by Jack Ryan. I didn’t realise that they were a ‘regular’ mobile service company.
No Wi-Fi calling
Pardon my ignorance - is Wifi calling different to a WhatsApp voice call? This may be a deal breaker for us...
Pardon my ignorance – is Wifi calling different to a WhatsApp voice call? This may be a deal breaker for us…
Similar, but different. WhatsApp calls are dependant on having a data connection, WiFi or mobile and both having the app.
WiFi calling doesn't need an app, it just allows the WiFi to carry the signal when you have little or no phone connection.
No Wi-Fi calling despite being advertised
They don't advertise WiFi calling in the UK, as far as I can see.
Sorry, but I made that silly comment above in an attempt to be lighthearted. I have now looked up the company, and see that my assumptions were correct.
I use Smarty.
Some cheap SIM only deals.
Their unlimited deal is completely unlimited and they don't throtle is back.
Runs on 3.
I joined last week. Sim took a couple of days to arrive. Phone number transfer took a couple of hours at most. It's not the slickest service in terms of communication and so but it's fine.
I got a new number for my 11 year old kid. Cheap, easy to set up and works fine for him.
we order a sim on a Sunday evening
Sim arrived wednesday, but as we needed to be sure the phone was available we didn't try to activate it until Saturday. Unfortunately when we did so, the sim showed no service. Same "no service" on Sunday, and again on Monday. I found an old phone and put the SIM in that and again got "no service", but then went and had tea and while eating, it must have connected to the network and fired up
The form to trasnfer the existing number was a bit of a ballache to figure out, but we got it done with help from the interweb, and the number has just ported this afternoon, less than 48 hours after we made the request. All in all, bit fraught but turned out ok.