Is Lebara any good?

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Original Poster:

43,837 posts

209 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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I had an email from O2 saying they're putting our prices up again (Mrs C and I were with Virgin Mobile and migrated to O2 when they took over)

The main thing I use it for is the data - 5gb for £8.52 was ok I thought. perhaps not amazing or the best but (theoretically) I was on a good network and 5gb was enough for all my emails, youtube and satnav needs. However I've had an email from O2 to say it's going up by £1.80 so it will be just over a tenner).

Lebara are doing 10gb/month for £5.95 (actually Ive just checked and Talkmobile seem to be 20gb for £5.95). Both use the Vodafone network which (unlike O2) provides good 5g coverage in my area.

Does anybody have any experience of lebara or talkmobile? Am i better sticking with the devil I know?

FlabbyMidgets

536 posts

100 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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My Dad uses them, no issues at all but we haven't had to contact them for anything either so cannot comment on customer service

craig1912

3,914 posts

125 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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Switched to Lebara from Sky. They use the Vodaphone network. 15gb for £6.95pm free roaming in EU. Decent 5g most of time. Good app. Can’t fault them.

LimmerickLad

3,778 posts

28 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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Switched to them a year or so ago......no problems whatsover.

blue_haddock

4,350 posts

80 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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I've not used lebara but can recommend 1p mobile who piggy back EE.

Excellent service and more importantly great coverage. They also give free EU roaming which many no longer do.

Jamescrs

5,141 posts

78 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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Have a Lebara sim for my daughters phone and it's been very good, she has no issues in the U.K or the E.U

2Btoo

3,624 posts

216 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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I'm with Lebara, and my wife's just switched to them after Voda put their prices up again.

No complaints from either of us.

joropug

2,778 posts

202 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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I switched from 140gb pm Vodafone at £18pm to 50gb Lebara for £9.90pm, which uses the Vodafone network and dont think its any worse for signal for it.

Better still MSE had a deal on where first 6 months are £1.25 with no contract.

Also contrary to comments online I was able to port my number from Voda to essentially Voda.

No complaints my end.

Bonefish Blues

31,101 posts

236 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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I can't see any reason for many (most?) people to be on the host network when there's a plethora of suppliers at lower cost (iD on 3 here)

TonyRPH

13,240 posts

181 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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Another vote for Lebara here.

My o/h and I are both on their network and we're very happy with the service.

ymwoods

2,190 posts

190 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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I moved to them after loads of various issues on Three.

Been amazing and (live chat only) the staff were very knowledgable and friendly. Like three used to be...

Bluevanman

8,341 posts

206 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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On a monthly sim deal that auto renews and guaranteed not to go up in price.No complaints from me

ThingsBehindTheSun

1,873 posts

44 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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My whole family use them now, I am on the £5 a month for 5GB plan and it has been brilliant, the price has not gone up since I started about 3 years ago.

You get full roaming in Europe for free, and again I have never had an issue using data on holiday.

The website is brilliant too, my daughter had her phone stolen a few months ago so I ran to the shops, bought another sim card and was able to transfer her number and terminate the old sim instantly.

Red9zero

8,651 posts

70 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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Another vote for Lebara here. I have used them for a few years with no issues and recently got my Mother a smart phone with a Lebara sim and hers works perfectly too.

sgrimshaw

7,504 posts

263 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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I got a great deal on Lebara.

30gb exclusive monthly plan SIM is in my car, primarily for data

Unlimited calls and texts, 30gb data ... £1.99 for 6 mths, then £7.99 per month.

No complaints on service so far.

James_N

3,154 posts

247 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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My Mrs is on Lebara.

Me and my stepson are on o2 but just got the price rise email, so i'll be moving them to lebara too.

Just signed up for 5GB MSE Exclusive Monthly Plan.

£1.35 for 6 months, £4.90 afterwards.

Only need 5gb, I'm on Wifi at work, Wifi at home and Wifi around others houses, so don't need loads of data. Happy with that smile

MickTravis665321

45 posts

29 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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blue_haddock said:
I've not used lebara but can recommend 1p mobile who piggy back EE.
Now that's interesting, EE are widely regarded as having the best coverage but also being the most expensive. I wonder if there's any throttling in place for this MVNO vs direct with EE.

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Original Poster:

43,837 posts

209 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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James_N said:
My Mrs is on Lebara.

Me and my stepson are on o2 but just got the price rise email, so i'll be moving them to lebara too.

Just signed up for 5GB MSE Exclusive Monthly Plan.

£1.35 for 6 months, £4.90 afterwards.

Only need 5gb, I'm on Wifi at work, Wifi at home and Wifi around others houses, so don't need loads of data. Happy with that smile
Yep, exactly the same position here. Just to mention that you can get up to 20GB for £6 from Talkmobile - seems to be worth it even if you never use it?

NomduJour

20,029 posts

272 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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Bonefish Blues said:
I can't see any reason for many (most?) people to be on the host network when there's a plethora of suppliers at lower cost (iD on 3 here)
Not all the MVNOs get access to all the available bands - Lycamobile is EE, but essentially unusable, whereas 1p Mobile is EE and generally fine.

119

10,876 posts

49 months

Monday 18th November 2024
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We have o2 with 10GB for £6.50.

Service is getting crap though.