What SIM card do I need?

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anonymous-user

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60 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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hellorent

494 posts

69 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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In the past I've used these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/253826793481?epid=11031...

cheaper 1: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374181821771?hash=item5...

Edited by hellorent on Wednesday 10th August 16:04


or you could use yr phone as a hotspot

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Ham_and_Jam

2,511 posts

103 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Lebara would be my recommendation. Uses Vodafone network and includes Eu Roaming.

Also cheap as chips smile

anonymous-user

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60 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Ham_and_Jam said:
Lebara would be my recommendation. Uses Vodafone network and includes Eu Roaming.

Also cheap as chips smile
This, I have been with Lebara for two years now and would recommend them to anyone. Both my children are in Greece at the moment and they don't have WiFi so I have topped them up for this month with the £25 unlimited data package.

They are both burning through about 8GB a day at the moment!

I am on the 3GB package for £5 a month, you get 15GB for £10.

CharlesElliott

2,049 posts

288 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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giffgaff SIM (O2 network) offers free (ie included) roaming in the EU. £10 for 1 month / 15Gb data.

Alorotom

12,107 posts

193 months

Wednesday 10th August 2022
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O2 do free European roaming still I believe

Captain_Morgan

1,243 posts

65 months

Thursday 11th August 2022
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Alorotom said:
O2 do free European roaming still I believe
I believe that O2 cap there roaming data @ 25Gb/m

WyrleyD

2,022 posts

154 months

Thursday 11th August 2022
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Joey Deacon said:
Ham_and_Jam said:
Lebara would be my recommendation. Uses Vodafone network and includes Eu Roaming.

Also cheap as chips smile
This, I have been with Lebara for two years now and would recommend them to anyone. Both my children are in Greece at the moment and they don't have WiFi so I have topped them up for this month with the £25 unlimited data package.

They are both burning through about 8GB a day at the moment!

I am on the 3GB package for £5 a month, you get 15GB for £10.
I bought a £25 Lebara SIM in June for my trip to France (to use in a Huawei B818 4G router) because they advertise it as UNLIMITED data and renewed it for July/August, back in France this week and the SIM had stopped working so did an online chat with Lebara, turns out that you can only use 30GB in Europe and the UNLIMITED is UK only. My grandson had been to the house and had been gaming and used up all of the 30GB!! Have now cancelled the SIM because the renewal date is after we have left so no use to me, now using a local supplier SIM which is not as fast as the Lebara/Orange SIM but good enough.

the-norseman

13,218 posts

177 months

Thursday 11th August 2022
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Alorotom said:
O2 do free European roaming still I believe
BT do as well.

tight fart

3,054 posts

279 months

Thursday 11th August 2022
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My older contract on 3 is limited to 12gb in the EU.

anonymous-user

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60 months

Friday 12th August 2022
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WyrleyD said:
back in France this week and the SIM had stopped working so did an online chat with Lebara, turns out that you can only use 30GB in Europe and the UNLIMITED is UK only.
I stupidly assumed unlimited was unlimited, I have let my children know to stop watching netflix as it will barely last4 days at the rate they are using data.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

267 months

Friday 12th August 2022
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£2 a day to use your UK EE allowance in Europe. Or £10 for seven days if you buy a bolt on.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

267 months

Friday 12th August 2022
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If you are having issues finding the right part of the EE website, you're not alone! I gave up and rang 150 and asked billing to do it for me.

Ham_and_Jam

2,511 posts

103 months

Friday 12th August 2022
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You should be fine with Lebara.

As others have said it’s a 30Gb EU roaming limit, which is probably the best out of all of the operators at the moment.

If you need to use more than that, I would suggest you purchase 2 x sims on a 30Gb tariff, rather than an unlimited one.

USwitch are doing 21Gg for £7.95 / month, first 3 months £3.18 / month cancel anytime.