Got email from Sky https://www.sky.com/shop/pre-reg/mobile
Only problem is, it doesnt recognise Irish mobile phone numbers :-)
If only I have a uk phone number in Ireland
Lol so they rip people off that way too. Feck off Sky. It will be the flop of the year or even the decade.
You're missing a digit, should have 7 numbers after 089. Just tested with fake number.
All done!
Thanks for registering
We'll be in touch shortly to share more and invite you to make the switch to Sky Mobile.
It’ll be no different to Tesco etc. just a skin over a three network
Using the Vodafone network so I suspect will be on the higher end of the pricing scale as opposed to the lower end.
where is the bargain here?
Just make sure you change the flag in the bottom right from the Union Jack to the Tricolour. Works away grand then.
Where do you register an interest. What address.No reference on sky.com or sky mobile.com or sky.co uk or sky mobile.co.uk
Literally this.
Vodafone*
Theres also two types of MVNO. You have your Clear, 48, GoMo and then you have your Tesco, Sky etc.
One is setup by the operator (Vodafone, Three and eir) and the others make use of the network backbone but typically manage the others aspects themselves.
Yeah and the error is just lazy QA when porting the site code (whether it is backend code, java script, HTML) they didn't update some of the error reporting for the front end.
That's what you'd think of as a false negative - there is an error it's just not the right description. I'd say ideally you specifically report too few digits as an error.
True competition is to have another mobile phone licence auction. The sale of o2 to Three (reducing the number of mobile networks to three) increased prices for consumers. Comreg was against this sale going ahead, but the EU cleared it on competition grounds.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-30852872.html
One would assume Sky will offer very cheap plans starting off, especially for those with Sky Broadband/TV.
They'll do well to be cheaper than GOMO
prices in Ireland are pretty low already I think - it's one of the few areas where we're cheaper than most other EU countries. There are several companies offering "unlimited" plans for €15 a month (48 is €13 a month)
Why on earth would you pre-register giving them all your details when it will on their website when they launch
So you don't need to keep checking their website?
Id imagine there will be a huge marketing campaign that will be difficult to miss.just don't fancy getting bombarded with phone calls/ emails
What is GOMO?
At the start of the year Sky Mobile UK were offering a Nokia 105 with unlimited calls and texts + 100MB data for £2 per month for 36 months. It would be great for auld biddies non-data users if they offered a similar basic plan here.
Best SIM Only Deals in Ireland - GoMo €14.99/Month
True, I have Sky tv and broadband but I'm not expecting it to be cheaper than Gomo. Even if it was somehow cheaper than the €10 Gomo deal I still probably wouldn't go to the hassle of changing networks to save what would probably amount to a very minimal saving per year.
I imagine they will go in with similar pricing as Virgin Mobile which is not all that great at all. I hope I'm proved wrong but not expecting any great value really from them. The fact the use Vodafone also is a drawback as they really are falling behind Eir and Three in terms of Signal/speeds the past few years.
I'm hoping they try to stand out from existing MNVOs by offering esim, 4G Calling, Wifi-calling and hopefully Apple Watch esim support.
Who could have imagined the day that vf is not the preferred base network anymore
Low if you stick within your plan and the EU area
GoMo = Get out more often. Honest
true but that's probably 95%+ of the market. I don't imagine Sky are going to come in targeting the small number of users who spend a lot of time outside the EU and consume terabytes of mobile data.
I got a text from Vodafone yesterday to tell me that my legacy plan is increasing by €5 per month. It was expensive enough so that's the final straw for me, I've registered with Sky out of curiosity. The Eir coverage isn't good around here so if I can stay with the physical Vodafone network, that might be a plus.
Is the Skymobile invitation for current tv/bband customers only? Nothing on any variation of Sky in a web search
Worth looking at An Post. They're on the Vodafone network and much cheaper.
