€15 - 20GB + Unlimited any network calls and texts + free roaming - Lycamobile

cormie

€30 odd for 12gb valid for a year, so say €2.5 per gig. That's pretty good value but then there's hassle of having another sim card. You could tether it from a phone and just pick up wifi on your regular phone I guess. Is there any special deals when topping up with the same card or is it back to 3's regular offerings?

pissed

Esel wrote: »

The below does not work in Portugal, but does in a lot of other countries, even here. It's 3, UK based, so research before buying. Says it works on a 3 phone or any unlocked phone.

12GB for £23.69 (sterling) plus £1.49 shipping from 7dayshop

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/new-3-payg-4g-trio-data-sim-pack-preloaded-with-12gb-of-data-three-sizes-35203

"List of Feel at Home Countries: Australia. Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Macau, New Zealand, Norway, Republic or Ireland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, USA

PLEASE NOTE THESE SIM CARDS ARE DATA ONLY AND CANNOT BE USED FOR CALLS OR TEXTS ON THE MOBILE NETWORKS."

Maybe someone here could put a link to this post into the Tesco deal thread? I'm on touch site and it's not possible to link to a post.

Edit: As it's 3UK, may well work there as well.

I think they have a new list which comes into effect September 2016. Not sure if they are live at the moment though.

In September, we will be adding 24 new destinations for you to use your phone abroad at no extra cost and share your holiday pictures shamelessly. You’ll soon be able to use your phone in a total of 42 destinations across the world including Germany, Portugal, Greece and the USA. Below is a list of the 24 new destinations that will be automatically added for you to use Feel at Home in:
Belgium, Bulgaria, Channel Islands (Jersey & Guernsey), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.

bk

€28 for 12GB for 12 months across 42 countries is outstanding value!

Specially when it includes some normally very expensive locations like US, Switzerland, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand. And will even work here in Ireland and the UK.

Seems like a most have for any doing lots of travelling, or even just a week or two in any of these locations.

ED E

Posters have reported over on Mobiles (IIRC) that roaming with Lyca is a pain in the face though, any truth to that?

Esel

ED E wrote: »

Posters have reported over on Mobiles (IIRC) that roaming with Lyca is a pain in the face though, any truth to that?

More like a pain in the bank balance... See just above.

bk

ED E wrote: »

Posters have reported over on Mobiles (IIRC) that roaming with Lyca is a pain in the face though, any truth to that?

Roaming in general is a pain with any network in my experience!

I've done a lot of travelling over years, with Tesco, Vodafone, o2 and Three and it is always a bit of a pain with lots of fiddling with manually selecting networks, and rebooting your phone a few times to make sure it picks it up, etc.

However I normally get it working. However I can see how less technical and patient people might just give up.

I had no problems with Lyca in Northern Ireland, but obviously I can't say for every country, phone, etc.

Having said that I'll definitely be picking up that 3 UK sim mentioned above. I would look at call roaming as just an added bonus if it works.

Esel wrote: »

More like a pain in the bank balance... See just above.

Well Portugal is obviously ridiculously expensive, but their data roaming rates for other countries like Spain are by far the cheapest of any network in Ireland and of course the free roaming calls and texts is outstanding value.

Aquos76

Has anyone successfully managed to get some refer a friend credit from Lycamobile? They are using this line that because your friend ported their number into Lycamobile then you are no longer entitled to participate into the refer a friend scheme. If this is indeed the case, Ive asked a number of times now for them to show me where this is written in to the T&C's, but to no avail. Their response each time is we'll escalate it to the back office and give us a ring back in 24\48 hours, only to be told the very same thing all over again. They are claiming that the refer a friend deal is attached to the lyca 089 number which is on the sim card when its sent out. They are stating that that number must be topped up and only then can the refer a friend number be claimed.

Well this doesn't seem to be the case either, because I topped up both lyca sims with original numbers intact and on one of the sims, it was the following day before I ported over that one, and the 2nd sim was 2\3 days and their T&C's claim that once sims are topped up the referrer should receive a text saying as such and then within 24 hours the bonus credit would be added.

Over the years I have dealings with all mobile providers and I can safely say that these CS agents with lyca are the worst I have ever dealt with, Im not sure if its a training issue with them or is it just that management there give them very little information to work with because every issue seems to need to be escalated to another department which we aren't able to talk directly with either.

lawred2

Aquos76 wrote: »

Has anyone successfully managed to get some refer a friend credit from Lycamobile? They are using this line that because your friend ported their number into Lycamobile then you are no longer entitled to participate into the refer a friend scheme. If this is indeed the case, Ive asked a number of times now for them to show me where this is written in to the T&C's, but to no avail. Their response each time is we'll escalate it to the back office and give us a ring back in 24\48 hours, only to be told the very same thing all over again. They are claiming that the refer a friend deal is attached to the lyca 089 number which is on the sim card when its sent out. They are stating that that number must be topped up and only then can the refer a friend number be claimed.

Well this doesn't seem to be the case either, because I topped up both lyca sims with original numbers intact and on one of the sims, it was the following day before I ported over that one, and the 2nd sim was 2\3 days and their T&C's claim that once sims are topped up the referrer should receive a text saying as such and then within 24 hours the bonus credit would be added.

Over the years I have dealings with all mobile providers and I can safely say that these CS agents with lyca are the worst I have ever dealt with, Im not sure if its a training issue with them or is it just that management there give them very little information to work with because every issue seems to need to be escalated to another department which we aren't able to talk directly with either.

All that hassle for a fiver?

Aquos76

lawred2 wrote: »

All that hassle for a fiver?

Well actually a tenner but I get where you're coming from, at this stage I couldn't care less about the credit, I've brought it this far now, I'm going to see it out.

ED E

bk wrote: »

Roaming in general is a pain with any network in my experience!

I've done a lot of travelling over years, with Tesco, Vodafone, o2 and Three and it is always a bit of a pain with lots of fiddling with manually selecting networks, and rebooting your phone a few times to make sure it picks it up, etc.

However I normally get it working. However I can see how less technical and patient people might just give up.

I had no problems with Lyca in Northern Ireland, but obviously I can't say for every country, phone, etc.

Having said that I'll definitely be picking up that 3 UK sim mentioned above. I would look at call roaming as just an added bonus if it works.

Have to disagree there, three who normally make a balls of most things, have like home which works spectacularly (UK and Italy tested) and Vodafone roaming across europe is pretty reliable once you've called them to enable it. No APN configs needed.



In a more general note still laugh at people paying basically below cost for their primary communication device. Irish consumers really need to vote for quality for a while to push the infrastructure up not the cost down. Even culchie towns in rural Poland have higher LTE cell density than D4. Something very wrong with that picture.

bk

ED E wrote: »

Have to disagree there, three who normally make a balls of most things, have like home which works spectacularly (UK and Italy tested) and Vodafone roaming across europe is pretty reliable once you've called them to enable it. No APN configs needed.

For two years I had a great deal with Vodafone, 2GB per month of free data roaming in any country in the world!!!

It was incredible value, I was out of the country 14 times that year! It showed me how data roaming should be and how much easier it makes travel.

However despite it being Vodafone, who have networks across most of Europe and owned 50% of Verizon at the time, I still often had issues getting it to work initially when arriving in country. Lets of phone rebooting, but it would eventually work and be fine for the rest of the trip.

However the worst was the stress when Vodafone sent me a bill of €950 for just 2 days of roaming in the US!! They eventually admitted it was their mistake and scrapped the bill, but god the stress for those weeks until they did!

ED E wrote: »

In a more general note still laugh at people paying basically below cost for their primary communication device. Irish consumers really need to vote for quality for a while to push the infrastructure up not the cost down. Even culchie towns in rural Poland have higher LTE cell density than D4. Something very wrong with that picture.

I have to disagree with you partly. While my phone is my primary communication device, 3G/4G isn't my primary communication service.

It is very much secondary to my high quality wired broadband + high quality wifi that my phone sits on and uses about 90% of the time while at home and work.

No one uses SMS any more and seldom calls. Last month I used just 5 SMS!! It is all whatsapp, facebook messenger and other data services today and they all work great over wifi.

That is why I'm not too bothered about 3G/4G quality, I use it so little comparatively, that I'm quiet happy to go with the cheapest provider.

I know that isn't for everyone, some people can be very dependent on their phone for work, etc. such as sales people. But then those people should go for a better network like Vodafone.

It is better if their are also options for both light users as well as heavy users.

Having said that I've been playing Pokemon Go quiet a bit around Dublin for the last few weeks and I have to say the Lyca network has worked just fine.

lawred2

How long does it normally take for that free sim to arrive?

DopeTech

lawred2 wrote: »

How long does it normally take for that free sim to arrive?

2-3 working days usually.

NATLOR

Bit of a strange one,I have both my kids on lyca and just going through their call history on the website and have noticed a strange number appearing regularly (up to 6 times a day on some days) on both their accounts with between 1 and 3 second duration.

I know its not them calling as they were both in school without their phones for some of the calls. Its an 089 number ending in 330 just wondering has anyone else come across this?

BTW it doesn't show up on my history

lawred2

FrostyJim wrote: »

2-3 working days usually.

Turned up today

lawred2

NATLOR wrote: »

Bit of a strange one,I have both my kids on lyca and just going through their call history on the website and have noticed a strange number appearing regularly (up to 6 times a day on some days) on both their accounts with between 1 and 3 second duration.

I know its not them calling as they were both in school without their phones for some of the calls. Its an 089 number ending in 330 just wondering has anyone else come across this?

BTW it doesn't show up on my history

Have you tried calling the number?

maurice1

NATLOR wrote: »

Bit of a strange one,I have both my kids on lyca and just going through their call history on the website and have noticed a strange number appearing regularly (up to 6 times a day on some days) on both their accounts with between 1 and 3 second duration.

I know its not them calling as they were both in school without their phones for some of the calls. Its an 089 number ending in 330 just wondering has anyone else come across this?

BTW it doesn't show up on my history

The long number is the bytes that they have left. They get free data with their topup

06/09/2016 22:44:00 2:38:01 0.0000 Special Number Call 0.000000 1368704347 13676557712


Sorry missed the 089xxxx330 part of your post. Could it be something to do with voicemail?

NATLOR

lawred2 wrote: »

Have you tried calling the number?

I have, it goes straight to a answer service saying 'the subscriber you are trying to reach is currently unavailable please try again later'so none the wiser. Its not a huge deal there is no cost involved but an odd one all the same

flintash

I've been using Lyca for a few months now, and today was very upset over "misleading" T&C ,so I came here to tell the story. (hope it hels someone who is reading this thread). First things first.
I switched to this network because of super cheap international calls 1 cent /min to Eastern Europe to mobile!!! (I was suspicious at the start)
I received sim card on post with no delays, unlike many other people here. Ported my number without a hiccups, no problem so far.
Tethering forbidden, fair enough, I found a way around.
Went back home over the hols, and my phone would pick up local networks (roaming). Luckily, after messing for short period of time, I had another phone, Nokia blockia dumb phone, where I tried Lyca sim, and then I got connected. After that it worked on smart and non-smart fones no problem. The was first hiccup.
Second was, after referring a friend, I didnt received a promised fiver. After a few emails forth and back, I gave up, no time wasting chasing a fiver.
I know their Offers and bundles is a maze. Thats where i got stung. I googled CALENDAR MONTH, and it could mean two things:
Definition of calendar month
1: one of the months as named in the calendar
2: the period from a day of one month to the corresponding day of the next month if such exists or if not to the last day of the next month (as from January 3 to February 3 or from January 31 to February 29)
So topped up by 30 Eur on 27 of August, to avail of 200 free mins to any network. Guess what!!
Deal expired on 01 of September. Balls!!!
So just let you know, what CALENDAR MONTH meant to me in Lyca.
By the way,I had drooped calls on a few occasions, but when I paid a cent per min, I wont complain!
Overal, its the cheapest network, I'm not a heavy user, it will do for me.

rustledjimmies

flintash wrote: »

So topped up by 30 Eur on 27 of August, to avail of 200 free mins to any network. Guess what!!
Deal expired on 31 of September. Balls!!!
So just let you know, what CALENDAR MONTH meant to me in Lyca.

I think you mean 31 of AUGUST.

Strange, seems a few of the "Offers" are per calendar month as you said but pretty much everything else is simply 30 days.

Doesn't look like you uncovered some grand scheme to scam users, more like your typical low cost stipulation to cover some behind the scenes scenario we don't know about.

flintash

Oh no, i dont say its a scam, just trying to make poeple aware of it, thats all.
P.s thanks for pointing error in the date

Aquos76

NATLOR wrote: »

Bit of a strange one,I have both my kids on lyca and just going through their call history on the website and have noticed a strange number appearing regularly (up to 6 times a day on some days) on both their accounts with between 1 and 3 second duration.

I know its not them calling as they were both in school without their phones for some of the calls. Its an 089 number ending in 330 just wondering has anyone else come across this?

BTW it doesn't show up on my history

I just found this number on my wife's call history also, 3 calls to it today, so we went thru here handset and looked up each time, they all coincided with missed calls. I just tried it now, rang her phone and left it go to voicemail but didn't wait for the Beeb to leave a message, and now a 10 sec call to that number is in her call history for a few mins ago.

It's obviously the system they use to divert the unanswered call to their voice mail service, and as its a lyca mobile number also, there isn't any charge involved.

mossy464

Was in the UK at the weekend and unfortunately my SMS messages would not send at all.

I was able to make calls to Irish numbers when entering the full country code i.e. 0035387.....

No joy whatsoever with texts though, anyone else have this problem?

Aquos76

mossy464 wrote: »

Was in the UK at the weekend and unfortunately my SMS messages would not send at all.

I was able to make calls to Irish numbers when entering the full country code i.e. 0035387.....

No joy whatsoever with texts though, anyone else have this problem?

Yep, very same problem for me last month, wasn't able to send any messages for the whole two weeks I was over there. I'm thinking it was something to do with lyca allocating me a UK number for the whole duration that I was over there.

mossy464

Aquos76 wrote: »

Yep, very same problem for me last month, wasn't able to send any messages for the whole two weeks I was over there. I'm thinking it was something to do with lyca allocating me a UK number for the whole duration that I was over there.

Yeah I also got allocated a UK number, I saw it mentioned on previous posts. Are you supposed to get a UK number?

bk

mossy464 wrote: »

Yeah I also got allocated a UK number, I saw it mentioned on previous posts. Are you supposed to get a UK number?

Yes, it seems to be their way of offering free calls and texts.

The texts you sent, did you also try 00353 or +353 in front of them? I'm guessing that is why they didn't work.

I've had that problem with other networks before, which is why I now store all my numbers in the +353 format.

mossy464

bk wrote: »

Yes, it seems to be their way of offering free calls and texts.

The texts you sent, did you also try 00353 or +353 in front of them? I'm guessing that is why they didn't work.

I've had that problem with other networks before, which is why I now store all my numbers in the +353 format.

Yes I tried both methods but still didn't work. Although, on my phone when I entered the number in 00353 or +353 formats it recognised that number as an existing contact.

lawred2

mossy464 wrote: »

Yes I tried both methods but still didn't work. Although, on my phone when I entered the number in 00353 or +353 formats it recognised that number as an existing contact.

You should edit the numbers in your contacts to all include the country prefix

bk

mossy464 wrote: »

Yes I tried both methods but still didn't work. Although, on my phone when I entered the number in 00353 or +353 formats it recognised that number as an existing contact.

Yes, I expect your phone was ignoring the number you entered and using the stored number. As lawred2 said, you need to edit the actual stored contact details.

mossy464

bk wrote: »

Yes, I expect your phone was ignoring the number you entered and using the stored number. As lawred2 said, you need to edit the actual stored contact details.

Ok thanks, I will know for the next time.