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Roaming on prepaid Philippines

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  • 28-11-2018 1:10am
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    Loughpike
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭


    Hi, I been for years with 3ireland on prepaid, always been able to receive messages while abroad, Philippines mainly.

    It looks like they changed something recently, I cant even register on their 'partner network' Globe anymore.

    Anybody had recent experiences with other networks for roaming in the philippines?
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    LeakingLava
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭LeakingLava


    I had no issues when I was in the Philippines this year. I was with 3 as well. Although, that was a few months ago.


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    Loughpike
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Loughpike


    LeakingLava wrote: »
    I had no issues when I was in the Philippines this year. I was with 3 as well. Although, that was a few months ago.

    Yeah, i have been using 3 for the past 6 years, never a problem till few weeks ago, you might get the same problem, better be prepared. I posted a thread in 3, three also.


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    MarkY91
    Registered Users Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    This happened to me in Belfast twice. Roaming just simply doesn't work and I assume it won't work in 2 weeks when I go to Bali and Philippines.


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    Loughpike
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Loughpike


    MarkY91 wrote: »
    This happened to me in Belfast twice. Roaming just simply doesn't work and I assume it won't work in 2 weeks when I go to Bali and Philippines.

    Just checked with other networks, maybe vodafone is the solution.


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    MarkY91
    Registered Users Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    Loughpike wrote: »
    Just checked with other networks, maybe vodafone is the solution.

    I changed from Eir because I can't get roaming anymore (worked fine up until past few months) then tried it on 3..same ****e. Live chat had no idea how to solve the issue.

    I'm just out of ideas at this stage. But in Philippines, I just get a "smart" network sim card to use for internet. But I am worried that I'll be most likely not able to receive texts on my Irish SIM for a whole month. I'll be hounding the live chat during my free time to fix the issue.


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    Sconsey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Sconsey


    I was in the Philippines last September, I had an Irish Vodafone pay as you go sim, no porblems roaming.

    I did the same as you, bought a Globe data sim for data access.


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    Loughpike
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Loughpike


    Sconsey wrote: »
    I was in the Philippines last September, I had an Irish Vodafone pay as you go sim, no porblems roaming.

    I did the same as you, bought a Globe data sim for data access.

    Thanks for that, i will switch to vodafone when i am back.


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