EU roaming

[Val54]

If you have a data allowance and use whatsapp to send a picture it should be included.

The 50p will be for a picture attached to an ordinary text (MMS)

Yes that's true, its just remembering to use it

 

[Geek]

I'm desperate to get away from 3. Over the past few months I have had very poor download speeds on 4g at different locations. Sometimes despite good signal strength their network is unusable. I have a mifi on EE as a backup which is seeing increasing use.

I plan to change my phone to Popit (EE) and my mifi to Asda Mobile (Vodafone).

Asda Mobile have an offer at the moment with double the data allowance for the same monthly payment. This will continue as long as your monthly payment continues. Well worth a look.

Asda moved from EE to Vodafone. The coverage is worse, the data speeds are much, much worse. A few weeks ago, Asda mobile hiked their prices hugely. At that point I left.

I've had fairly good results with Three.

 

[Wooie1958]

Me first then the wife was with Three for many many many years. mainly because they were the first to offer free roaming.

We ended up out of sync with our contracts and i renewed with Three last year just before their cut off date for free roaming so thought i`d be ok then a couple of months later i got an email saying i was on a 30 rolling contract that increased dramatically unless i renewed however the new contract did not include free roaming, i told them to shove it and went over to Tesco mobile ( O2 ) in January this year on a 24 month fixed contract that included free roaming ( 25GB in EU ).

Tesco changed that for newer customer in June this year but anyone who was already in contract with them stays on free roaming.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2022/06/tesco-europe-roaming-charges/

The wife was stuck with Three and got stung for the £2 per day charge for roaming for the last 10 days of a France jaunt we had earlier this year which more than doubled her monthly contract price.

She`s now left Three and gone with Plusnet mobile which includes free roaming but is capped (12GB in EU ).

The Tesco roaming partners service in France is fantastic and i had a very very very fast 5G for the majority of the time and we happily watch all of Her Majesty`s funeral whilst up the Pyrenees through the Fire Stick on the TV whilst tethered to my phone although it did use 9.75GB just for the funeral, it was well worth it.

 

[SimonM]

I will be looking closer to what’s on offer in a few months to get away from 3, I am a Virgin media user and I see they do a £30 unlimited data, minutes and texts. Sounds like the ultimate to me

But - how good is Virgin’s coverage here, there and everywhere?

 

[Val54]

I will be looking closer to what’s on offer in a few months to get away from 3, I am a Virgin media user and I see they do a £30 unlimited data, minutes and texts. Sounds like the ultimate to me

But - how good is Virgin’s coverage here, there and everywhere?

They piggy back on Vodafone in the UK so not as good as EE if you want 5g, we found in France that we could always pick up at least one Virgin partner network.

 

[Wooie1958]

I found it best to manually change the roaming partner if the service isn`t that good rather then relying on the auto select.

In France i found overall that Orange F was by far the best with SFR a pretty close second then Bouygues Telecom and Free lagging way behind

 

[YeoBlade]

I've been trying to find cell coverage mapping for the French networks, with some success, but they just tend to show where the transmitters are or which roads(only) have coverage:

Cellmapper.net cell sites

Perf.com Road coverage

Any others?

 

[Canalsman]

I found it best to manually change the roaming partner if the service isn`t that good rather then relying on the auto select.

In France i found overall that Orange F was by far the best with SFR a pretty close second then Bouygues Telecom and Free lagging way behind

Agreed. This is what I do too.

 

[YeoBlade]

I found it best to manually change the roaming partner if the service isn`t that good rather then relying on the auto select.

In France i found overall that Orange F was by far the best with SFR a pretty close second then Bouygues Telecom and Free lagging way behind

Not sure I can do manual on the Moho router.

 

[Wooie1958]

Agreed. This is what I do too.

It was you Chris that brought this to my attention several years back and it`s really very easy to do in the phones settings

We`d always put up with the slow speeds abroad thinking it was just one of them things you had to suffer when using their roaming partners.

Then, i saw a post on here where you mention if could be done manually so i tried it, chose one of the other available networks and it worked a treat

 

[Canalsman]

It was you Chris that brought this to my attention several years back and it`s really very easy to do in the phones settings

We`d always put up with the slow speeds abroad thinking it was just one of them things you had to suffer when using their roaming partners.

Then, i saw a post on here where you mention if could be done manually so i tried it, chose one of the other available networks and it worked a treat

What goes around ... !

 

[TJBi]

I've been trying to find cell coverage mapping for the French networks, with some success, but they just tend to show where the transmitters are or which roads(only) have coverage:

Cellmapper.net cell sites

Perf.com Road coverage

Any others?

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[TJBi]

If you were looking at the Trustpilot reviews they were few in number, 17 if I recall correctly, and some were glowing.

I asked a question via chat yesterday, Sunday, and made contact immediately and got an answer in seconds.

Today I received an email reply early this morning about my query on EU roaming duration. See my new post for details.

Couldn't ask for quicker or clearer responses.

Another option, posted on motorhomer.com by @Geek is RWG. https://www.rwgmobile.wales/
They confirmed by phone today that EU roaming is treated the same as UK use and no time restrictions.
Only potential drawback that I can see is that they appear not to offer 5G (but not something that I asked about on the phone as I have no 5G devices).

 

[Boris7]

We are still on our old (very old) EE contract, £17 per month unlimited data and calls and it includes roaming in the EU, £10 extra for a second sim on the same contract therefore £27 per month for 2 phones, that excludes vat, but I’m vat registered anyway.

Sorry guys I wasn’t on here before ******, I was on another site and spent ages telling everyone there to grab a pre ****** contract, EE can’t take it back and I don’t see me changing anytime soon.