I'D mobile half price bill plans

Funny how?

250 minutes
250 texts
30 GB data

I0 euro a month for 6 months. Then 20 euro.

10000 mins
10000 txt
30GB data

14.50 a month for six months. Then 29 euro

Anyone know what network there based off and if there any good?

TheDriver

Funny how? wrote: »

250 minutes
250 texts
30 GB data

I0 euro a month for 6 months. Then 20 euro.

10000 mins
10000 txt
30GB data

14.50 a month for six months. Then 29 euro

Anyone know what network there based off and if there any good?

three

bromley52

TheDriver wrote: »

three

:eek:

deadimmortal

With them a year now, no issues. 4G Coverage the same as three.

AS1890

I'm with iD a year now. No issues. Unbelievable coverage. Believe it or not better coverage than Three. I have very bad coverage/support with SIM free phones. I had a galaxy S4, Nexus 5 and a Nexus 6 all SIM free and I would constantly have no internet with Three. Phone would always roam. Put my SIM card in a phone purchased from Three and I got 4G for 10+ hours where I would usually wouldn't even get 3G on a SIM free phone. I was sceptical about moving to iD when I discovered they used Three infrastructure. No issues and I'm paying €21 a month 30GB of data 500 mins and 500 texts after i paid €10.50 for first 6 month.

Kayshee123

Not a bad deal, although I'm a data hog so I don't think this would be enough for me.

JTMan

ID Mobile are up for sale in Ireland. Dixons are exiting the Irish market. There will either be new owners or the operation will be shut down.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/dixons-carphone-looks-to-offload-id-mobile-in-ireland-1.3137079%3fmode=amp

LeChienMefiant

I always steered clear of ID Mobile because they have a bad reputation for customer service. Has this changed? I wouldn't be particularly worried about them being up for sale.

sector_000

Can you quit before the 6 months is up?

GBX

My father is on there plan but on occasion he has noticed the allowances change and had to call them to reset to his preference. Other than that he gets on fine with it.

vicwatson

Ime don't touch with a barge pole

sector_000

sector_000 wrote: »

Can you quit before the 6 months is up?

Just chatted with idmobile. You can indeed quit at any time. It's 30 day rolling contract. Also data is 4G where available. And allows 6.3G EU roaming data. No bad. Tempted.

Any current user feedback for Dublin area?

LeChienMefiant

How does this compare to the Virgin Mobile offer. The main drawback of Virgin at the moment is that inbound/outbound SMS for some banking and other automated SMS services is blocked.

MarkR

LeChienMefiant wrote: »

How does this compare to the Virgin Mobile offer. The main drawback of Virgin at the moment is that inbound/outbound SMS for some banking and other automated SMS services is blocked.

I've been using ID again recently, meteor had no coverage where I work, and you had to pay to call voicemail. Crazy.

ID seem to have improved with the sms authentication. Google is fine, argos (my go to test if not working) works now. Getting ptsb and kbc texts. Mr binman. All seems fine.

LeChienMefiant

MarkR wrote: »

ID seem to have improved with the sms authentication. Google is fine, argos (my go to test if not working) works now. Getting ptsb and kbc texts. Mr binman. All seems fine.

I wasn't aware of this being an issue with ID Mobile. Just to confirm youre talking about ID Mobile and not Virgin?

Evil Sausage

LeChienMefiant wrote: »

How does this compare to the Virgin Mobile offer. The main drawback of Virgin at the moment is that inbound/outbound SMS for some banking and other automated SMS services is blocked.

Been with Virgin since February - only SMS service I've noticed being blocked is when entering competitions via text. Basically services that you might knowingly be willing to spend money on.

Argos, Payzone, BOI, Ryanair, AirBnB, TheAA, JustEat etc all working fine

LeChienMefiant

Evil Sausage wrote: »

Been with Virgin since February - only SMS service I've noticed being blocked is when entering competitions via text. Basically services that you might knowingly be willing to spend money on.

Argos, Payzone, BOI, Ryanair, AirBnB, TheAA, JustEat etc all working fine

Good to know, as I just signed up with them.

MarkR

LeChienMefiant wrote: »

I wasn't aware of this being an issue with ID Mobile. Just to confirm youre talking about ID Mobile and not Virgin?

Yeah, I'd terrible trouble setting up my KBC account using iD mobile. There was one activation text which would not arrive.

For argos, you know how when you reserve something online, you can get a text? Never worked with iD. Seems to work now.

StaticNoise

Dublin user here, but travels.

EU roaming is spot on, loads of data and allowances as per regulation. Coverage is good in Dublin, only a few black spots in dips or similar areas, as per with Three. Doesn't feel as congested, I must say. Loads of data and the like, fraction of the price. Voicemail free. Customer Care is much better than at the start.

If SMS is not working they work through setting them up depending on priority. For example, banks are highest, radio stations last.

Highly recommend.

freebee23

sector_000 wrote: »

Can you quit before the 6 months is up?

You can quit but if you start a new month you will be billed for the full month even though you might port over to a new provider during that month. I was with them for their 6 months half price offer for 2 mobile accounts and when I ported from them on the 7th day of the 7th month they billed me for the full month with no credit for the remaining 24 days for both accounts. Their billing cycle runs from 1st of the month to the last day of the month. Ended up they kept approx. €45. Every other network provider gives you a refund of unused credit except idmobile. Even Carphonewarehouse who setup the accounts and organised my porting to and from idmobile were unable to organise me a refund. This was after they told me that I would get a refund of unused credit. So moral of the story port from them towards the last days of the 6th month on half price offer.
Hope this helps.

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LeChienMefiant wrote: »

How does this compare to the Virgin Mobile offer. The main drawback of Virgin at the moment is that inbound/outbound SMS for some banking and other automated SMS services is blocked.

We moved from id/eir to virgin.
With virgin 6 weeks and am moving elsewhere for Mobile.

The number of times I can't get a data signal in Dublin in mind-blowing.

LeChienMefiant

Maliah Damaged Twill wrote: »

We moved from id/eir to virgin.
With virgin 6 weeks and am moving elsewhere for Mobile.

The number of times I can't get a data signal in Dublin in mind-blowing.

I'm on three now and lose signal consistently between cowper and ballaly on the luas green line.

willah

Signed up today porting from Virgin Media. Cheers OP

magentis

Network from hell,run away fast.Have been stuck with these for 22 months on a contract.Often have no data in Dublin cc,calls going straight to voice mail when phone is showing signal.Still waiting on a call from their"technical department"that was promised 6 months ago.There is a reason they are looking to bail out of the market.

wizardman

Thanks OP a great find. Switched from VM. Fantastic value in SIM only plans. Why anyone would sign a 24 month contract is beyond me. A very good spec phone can be purchased under 300€. I got the Moto G5 plus SIM free on Amazon in June.

Even the new S8 is available from Amazon for 600€ if you want a flagship phone. I went with 500mins, 250texts and 30g of data.

Trampas

Can you tether for free?

Once within allowance as I can do that on three sim only bill pay

AlmightyCushion

Trampas wrote: »

Can you tether for free?

Once within allowance as I can do that on three sim only bill pay

Yeah, I tether on iD with no issue.

4motion

Mr.S wrote: »

Did that issue never got sorted with Virgin!?

The only thing to be aware of is that ID is most likely going to be sold quite soon so plans could change.

Its same in iD

Maz2016

Cheers OP. I switched to Meteor/EIR a few months back and not happy with them. This is a great alternative. Thank you

Ursus Horribilis

AS1890 wrote: »

I'm with iD a year now. No issues. Unbelievable coverage. Believe it or not better coverage than Three. I have very bad coverage/support with SIM free phones. I had a galaxy S4, Nexus 5 and a Nexus 6 all SIM free and I would constantly have no internet with Three. Phone would always roam. Put my SIM card in a phone purchased from Three and I got 4G for 10+ hours where I would usually wouldn't even get 3G on a SIM free phone. I was sceptical about moving to iD when I discovered they used Three infrastructure. No issues and I'm paying €21 a month 30GB of data 500 mins and 500 texts after i paid €10.50 for first 6 month.

Is there any chance you didn't put the correct settings into your phone? It seems weird that all of those perfectly good handsets didn't work properly?

daytob

Can someone post the apn settings please? I copied them from the site and put them in and I still cant get online yet, I want to check a working one first before I hit them up.
Tia

bliger

Apn: internet
User:
Password:

Cudders

magentis wrote: »

Network from hell,run away fast.Have been stuck with these for 22 months on a contract.Often have no data in Dublin cc,calls going straight to voice mail when phone is showing signal.Still waiting on a call from their"technical department"that was promised 6 months ago.There is a reason they are looking to bail out of the market.

You were not "stuck" with the network, you could buy out the handset at any time and switch. You just get charged the remaining balance owed for the handset, there is no early cancellation fee as the cellular part of the 24 month agreement is only a 30 day simo.

jimmad

Decided to give them a go as eir have been brutal for coverage recently, does it take long for the sim to arrive, it would seem theyve terminated my eir connection already...

johnnykilo

Signed up with them today by going into a Carphone Warehouse store. All done and switched over in 20 minutes. I was with Tesco Mobile and had been a very light data user but I bought one of the Italian S8's on here and my data usage went up.

Figured I'd give these guys a go. On the plus side I'm getting 4G which I wasn't with Tesco but the connection seems to drop off a bit more often. Well they're my observations from the first 6 hours of using it! :pac: I guess I can always switch to someone else if needs be.

Scottie99

Kayshee123 wrote: »

Not a bad deal, although I'm a data hog so I don't think this would be enough for me.

Likewise 142GB last month

bondja80

I just canceled fibre broadband with eir, because they want to increase price, and internet is very slow only 11mb/s download speed, and upload 1mb/s.
I am planing to use mobile 4g internet, until Siro or Virgin broadband become available in my area in Drogheda.

How is internet speed of id mobile(three) 4G internet? Did somebody check the speed?
Also three.ie has offer all you can eat data and unlimited Three to ThreeCalls if you top up by 20e every month. Did somebody try this three all you can eat data offer and what are yours experiences?

pela222

bondja80 wrote: »

I just canceled fibre broadband with eir, because they want to increase price, and internet is very slow only 11mb/s download speed, and upload 1mb/s.
I am planing to use mobile 4g internet, until Siro or Virgin broadband become available in my area in Drogheda.

How is internet speed of id mobile(three) 4G internet? Did somebody check the speed?
Also three.ie has offer all you can eat data and unlimited Three to ThreeCalls if you top up by 20e every month. Did somebody try this three all you can eat data offer and what are yours experiences?

1) the speed of your current fiber tells me that it is not realy a fiber... What you have probably is a fiber to cabinet and then Internet is proveded to your premises using traditional ADSL technology (copper cable). That is a popular marketing bull**** used by many (including Vodafone, Sky and apparently Eir).

Quick advice here. If anyone interested in fiber, the first question to ask is: do you offer a fiber to the premises in my area. Obviously you can check that also on siro web site if you are interested in Vodafone / Rocket Broadband offer.

2) speed of a mobile Internet depends on location. You will find only after testing in your house. I advise to buy sim card with three and test it on any sort of 4g modems or even in your mobile phone... Still performance could be very different using different device.
3) as far as I know they "all you can eat data" is capped on 60GB fairly usage policy. Whether they check it and cut off users who used more data, I don't know.

I used to ha e a proper fiber 100mbps with Eir. Due to price increase I left. Using metoer mobile (now eir) with 3 bars 4g range. Download speed is 22mbps / upload 12mbps. I pay €29.99 with 50gb limit. Will go with three.ie offer but it constantly drops from 4g to 3g with them at my home place

Maz2016

johnnykilo wrote: »

Signed up with them today by going into a Carphone Warehouse store. All done and switched over in 20 minutes..

Did you get the 10 offer by going into store? On the website it says online offer only. What did you need to do. Thanks