Phone use in States

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

I have switched to eir recently, business account. Anyways it says I have 1GB of data in USA and unlimited calls and texts in the USA too? Sounds good to me? Details here - https://business.eir.ie/shop/shop-bundles/sim-mobile/?customer=new This is on the €20 per month eir Mobile Business Unlimited SIM

For a week a light user might get away with 1GB, the problem is if you go over the 1GB the price is €8.46 per MB so if you wanted an additional GB while there it would cost €8,460...a tad pricey.

https://business.eir.ie/roaming-rate/us

Anyone who had the 3 UK sim can you just top it up after the 12 months or is it a buy another one?

sioda wrote: »

Anyone who had the 3 UK sim can you just top it up after the 12 months or is it a buy another one?

Yes you can just topup but the new topup will only last 30 days, will suit most people to just buy a new 12GB sim and start again.

I've ordered a second but not sure it will get here on time

The three 12GB data only sim worked a treat for me in the states. Popped it in when landed and selected a network and it worked straight away. AT&T seemed to be the fastest network with T-Mobile the worst, in Boston anyway.

mac1961

What’s the life on these 3 SIM cards if you don’t activate them. Is it a year? Mine arrived to late, were on my doormat when I got back.

mac1961 wrote: »

What’s the life on these 3 SIM cards if you don’t activate them. Is it a year? Mine arrived to late, were on my doormat when I got back.

It's a year from first use in the phone.

LJ3103

If you use one of these in your phone can use the likes of WhatsApp with out issue,

banchang

Simon201 wrote: »

Sorry about the huge non bargain alert but I was wondering were there two April the 1st's this year when I saw this!:mad:

https://www.virginmedia.ie/roaming/

1st option 5 minutes on FB
2nd option stream an advert maybe

That looks extremely expensive ? 500MB for Eur55 ? You'd be through that in no time.

LJ3103 wrote: »

If you use one of these in your phone can use the likes of WhatsApp with out issue,

Yes, I used it without any difference to how it works at home.

Lenny

n!ghtmancometh wrote: »

The three 12GB data only sim worked a treat for me in the states. Popped it in when landed and selected a network and it worked straight away. AT&T seemed to be the fastest network with T-Mobile the worst, in Boston anyway.

im going next week, any idea of the speeds you were getting?

n!ghtmancometh wrote: »

Yes, I used it without any difference to how it works at home.

Yes wondering about this, could you use your Irish SIM number for it or does it need to the the UK Three number?

I did nothing to it, and all my chats and groups worked as normal, so I assume it just keeps your Irish number and not the UK sim number.

Lenny wrote: »

im going next week, any idea of the speeds you were getting?

All 3G, never got on LTE in downtown Boston, Cambridge or Providence etc. Perfectly usable for Spotify, podcasts, maps etc. Select AT&T wherever you can would be my advice, I connected to T-Mobile at first and it was very sluggish. American friends told me T-Mobile is the most congested network afterwards, so connected to AT&T instead and had no bother.

wotzgoingon

n!ghtmancometh wrote: »

All 3G, never got on LTE in downtown Boston, Cambridge or Providence etc. Perfectly usable for Spotify, podcasts, maps etc. Select AT&T wherever you can would be my advice, I connected to T-Mobile at first and it was very sluggish. American friends told me T-Mobile is the most congested network afterwards, so connected to AT&T instead and had no bother.

I was the same when I was in New York. Couldn't get a LTE connection due to having a European phone as they use different bands over there. You can get international phones but they are rare. All the most popular phones sell to different regions.

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I was the same when I was in New York. Couldn't get a LTE connection due to having a European phone as they use different bands over there. You can get international phones but they are rare. All the most popular phones sell to different regions.

I have a Nextbit Robin, bought in the US so don't think it's a problem on that score. I'd say it's more the network providers filtering roaming customers onto 3G.

unkel

n!ghtmancometh wrote: »

The three 12GB data only sim worked a treat for me in the states. Popped it in when landed and selected a network and it worked straight away.

Is that a three UK data only sim? Any link to ordering it?

Going to the states next month and would like to have some data without it costing a fortune. I have a dual SIM S8+, would it automatically use the second sim for roaming instead of my normal first sim?

https://www.mymemory.co.uk/3-payg-4g-trio-data-sim-pack-with-12gb-data.html

Works perfect I my op3 dual sim. I set my eir sim to calls and messages and the 3 sim as my data sim

unkel wrote: »

I have a dual SIM S8+, would it automatically use the second sim for roaming instead of my normal first sim?

Normally the way it works is SIM1 is used for data/calls/texts and SIM2 is calls/texts only so you would put your normal SIM in SIM2.

unkel

I see I can't use my micro SD card when using 2 sims. That's not great.

Yevon wrote: »

If I order one of these 3 UK data sims can I just pop into my Samsung S8 when I land? Or do I need a Dual sim or something... Thanks.

I just inserted the sim, selected a network and it worked straight away. You don't need a dual sim, but you won't be able to call or text anyone as this is a data only sim. Of course you can just use WhatsApp/Messenger/Viber etc to call and text people instead.