Dealing with the loss of unlimited Eu roaming

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That EE Roam Abroad Pass looks good for travel after 03/22 but if we can get away to Spain before then it'll be interesting to find out what the costs will be, for January and February.
 
I'm due to renew my contract with 3 in Jan and reading the small print it seems as though If I stay on the same contract roaming won't apply. The quote below is copied from the email
Go Roam is changing for new contracts/upgrades. There is a £2 daily charge to unlock your UK allowance in Go Roam in Europe destinations and a £5 daily charge in Go Roam Around the World destinations. We are waiving the daily charge until 23 May 2022. There is no daily charge if you choose to stay on your plan after your current contract ends.
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the new contract would be £1 a mth less than my current one so seems like I'm better to stay with what I got
 
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We’ve been quite happy with our Superdrug payg unlimited 3 sim in Europe up until now, but looking further ahead the EE 24 month £25/month (160 GB) or the £28/month (200 GB) contracts look fairly attractive if planning trips in European longer than two months. They both allow one ‘smart benefit’. As far as I can see the ‘smart benefit’ of choice would be the ‘roam adroad pass’ which allows you (after January 2022) to use all of your allowance including data throughout Europe without dropping off after two months.

It also promises the same concessions for the US, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia.

Having followed YouTubers John & Mandy on their epic European tour (ducking in and out of Schengen countries), they’ve reported great coverage using EE with a Netgear Nighthawk M1 and a Poynting antenna (both of which we decided to upgrade to).
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Which Poynting antenna is that?
 
witzend said:
I'm due to renew my contract with 3 in Jan and reading the small print it seems as though If I stay on the same contract roaming won't apply.
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After speaking with them today what I was told today was That even if I renewed my contract I'd end up paying roaming.
So after having a look at other sim deals I found Tesco are not charging for roaming and was told today even if they do decide to there will be no change until my new contract with them ends

Home From Home​

No extra charges in Europe and beyond
Use your phone just like you do at home, at no extra cost
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witzend said:
After speaking with them today what I was told today was That even if I renewed my contract I'd end up paying roaming.
So after having a look at other sim deals I found Tesco are not charging for roaming and was told today even if they do decide to there will be no change until my contract ends
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AFAICT, you could just let the contract run rather than renew -- at least, that's what I understand about my contract with Three. In the past, I've only renewed because of more preferable terms (e.g. more data for less money) and just let the contract run if a better deal wasn't available.
 
GeoffL said:
AFAICT, you could just let the contract run rather than renew -- at least, that's what I understand about my contract with Three.
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From my conversation with them this morning either way I'd be paying roaming and its not just if you use your phone it's any day it's turned on in a roaming zone
 
witzend said:
From my conversation with them this morning either way I'd be paying roaming and its not just if you use your phone it's any day it's turned on in a roaming zone
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That doesn't seem to agree with what their website says at the page linked here:
Go Roam lets you unlock your plan or Add-on allowances in 71 destinations. It is made up of both Go Roam in Europe and Go Roam Around the World. For new and upgrading Pay Monthly customers, there’s a £2 daily charge to unlock Go Roam in Europe, and a £5 daily charge to unlock Go Roam Around the World. But we’re waiving this charge until 23 May 2022. This will not affect Pay Monthly customers whose plan started before 1 October 2021. It will also not affect any Pay As You Go customers. Republic of Ireland and Isle of Man are excluded from the daily charge.
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I have unlimited data with EE. Pay £10 a month for adding and continue as normal. Cancel it on return. Re apply on next trip. I have an Amazon fire stick for tv and hot spot for IPad.
 
Just upgraded Plusnet to £10 for 27Gb, they only offered 15 to existing customers, but I spoke nicely to them. Of this 15Gb EU roaming allowed. Got another similar sim for t’other ‘arf. So 54Gb here and 30Gb away…which is about what we usually use per month. I did have Smarty which only now gives 12Gb in EU and threatens to cut you off after 2 months away…we need 3 months.
 
It may be easier to buy a local data SIM card abroad rather than try to find a UK provider with a decent roaming allowance.

I have been in Spain for 3 weeks now. Smarty cut me off after 12GB of data use, 5 days into the trip.

Reading the Prepaid Data SIM Card Wiki linked below, Digi Mobil are currently the only Spanish provider offering unlimited data (€25/m) but after visiting one of their shops, I was told that a Spanish bank account is required.

I bought the next best package I could find, a Llamaya SIM (from a MasMovil shop), 120GB over 30 days for €30. Stuck it in my old, trusty unlocked Huawei MiFi, entered the PIN code from the SIM and it worked straight away without any further configuration. You can register on https://mi.llamaya.com/ which allows you to track your usage and top up online. It's all in Spanish but I have Chrome set to auto translate.

I'm travelling with a friend and a few days after Smarty got shut of me, he was dumped by Vodafone. He doesn't have as much need for data as me, so he bought an Orange "Go Fly" SIM. 60GB over 30 days for €20. Again worked fine in his MiFi box, just had to change the apn. The Orange website has a Customer Services section in English and they have telephone customer support in English, French and German. https://en.orange.es/

Happy new year and happy travels!

https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Spain
 

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Both myself and my wife had Vodafone accounts 100gb each which we used all over Europe when traveling, cost was circa £21.00 pm. I had been with Vodafone since the 80’s; however with the new roaming restrictions kicking in, the best I could negotiate with Vodafone was 25gb per month; in fact there was no negotiation, more take it or leave it.
We have both now switched to EE we each get 150gb to use in the U.K. (which in the U.K. we will rarely use) and 50gb per month each in Europe for the 5/6 months we travel as we both opted for EE’s “smart benefits” no other charges all for circa £18.00 pm each. It was the best we could find at the time but still naff considering we are paying for 150gb per month but twice as good as Vodafone. Incidentally we couldn’t have got this deal through EE’s retail stores only direct from their call centre somewhere in South Wales. We tether to our phones to stream tv etc so relatively heavy data users; Because of our usage as a backup I have purchased a Netgear M2 router and if we run short of data I will buy a local sim in whichever country we are in. Hope the info helps someone and happy new year.
 
witzend said:
I'm due to renew my contract with 3 in Jan and reading the small print it seems as though If I stay on the same contract roaming won't apply. The quote below is copied from the email

the new contract would be £1 a mth less than my current one so seems like I'm better to stay with what I got
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I’m with Three also, visited one of their stores to clarify roaming position, and they concurred with yourself, and myself, that if you retain your old contract the 12GB roaming allowance continues, but for a 2 month period in 12 months only. They may be a lot stricter with this 2 month thing than previous but only time will tell.

Smarty, operated by Three, seem to offer more with their roaming so worth a look.

Made me look for alternatives and EE or Vodafone/Asda (Asda use Vod) look promising as long as you go for one of their premium sim only packages, with no apparent duration limits stated in their roaming terms and with larger GB allowances.

Vod/Asda have better coverage in U.K. which may be a consideration for those who park up in out of the way places.
 
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Regarding my posts #20 & #21 - EE may be reigning this deal in soon according to a recent news message that flashed up on my IPad, will need to look into it further and ask them some questions.
 
how about this !!!!!!! what about if you use your normal phone for 59 days
. take a sim only payg with money on it and change the sim on the 59th day then swap back to normal sim when back in uk
the om
only problem is can you get a sim only with your existing no on it ????
 
Compo said:
how about this !!!!!!! what about if you use your normal phone for 59 days
. take a sim only payg with money on it and change the sim on the 59th day then swap back to normal sim when back in uk
the om
only problem is can you get a sim only with your existing no on it ????
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A phone with 2 sim slots 3 have said they arn't charging roaming to payg so have your number on that to receive calls and another roaming free sim to make calls possibly a local sim to the country you in ?
 
Simonfrench said:
I have unlimited data with EE. Pay £10 a month for adding and continue as normal. Cancel it on return. Re apply on next trip. I have an Amazon fire stick for tv and hot spot for IPad.
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Is that the Roam Abroad benefit?

if so it doesn't start until the beginning of March...

"From 3 March 2022, our Roam Abroad Smart Benefit will include roaming in our European roaming zone..."

https://ee.co.uk/help/help-new/roam...broad/what-impact-will-******-have-on-roaming

If not could you please advise what it is as we are with EE and don't fancy paying 2 quid a day when we are away for a 60 night trip!!

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