Got email from Sky https://www.sky.com/shop/pre-reg/mobile
Only problem is, it doesnt recognise Irish mobile phone numbers :-)
Someone on here mentioned Sky having free unlimited calls to Europe, is this true
Unreal offer if so!
Let us know how you get on after a couple days, especially with the verification texts.
Decided to give it a go on Saturday evening and ordered an eSIM. Got the QR code and was set up pretty quickly. I’m a current Sky customer so had a Sky account and billing details set up already. Coverage seems better than 48/3 for me from my limited testing locally in a 10km radius. Seemed to have coverage on some of the backroads were there’s black spots for 3. Obviously location dependent.
Started the port this morning and it was done in 2/3 minutes. Never seen a port go through so quickly. iMessage activation took a bit of messing around with, but I always have that problem regardless of network, but it’s all set up now after a few attempts. So far happy enough and hopefully it continues hassle free and I don’t regret giving up my €8 48 plan.
It's a great offer and all but the fact you are locked into a 12 month contract on a network that still has issues is really throwing me off here. The network was meant to launch last year and was delayed, should have been delayed again in my opinion, it really feels like they didn't do any testing.
I ordered on Thursday, so should be 3 working days tomorrow.
When did you order?
This issue has concerned me a for a while, it's sort of putting me off the idea of porting a number.
I'm still waiting for my SIM card to arrive, my Vodafone PAYG plan expired today, postman came and nothing yet. If it doesn't arrive by tomorrow I will probably just stick with Vodafone.
Hopefully this is resolved before your 14 day cooling off period, imagine they don't fix this for your number and you are stuck in a 12 month contract and don't have the ability to receive verification texts.
Not necessarily an issue with a partial or failed port. GoMo had the same issue when they launched. They claim it's an issue with the "national database". Not sure if this is true or not.
https://www.newstalk.com/news/gomo-customers-facing-issues-verification-texts-955828
Ordered, email confirming and another email confirming postage
@Cork981 is that a failure to receive any SMS, or just 2FA verification codes?
After cancelling my initial order due an esim issue they couldn't resolve, I gave the benefit of the doubt and ordered a new SIM and ported in a number.
I can receive and make calls but can't receive any SMS to the number I ported in. This is usually due to a partial/failed port.
I'm onto support now going through the usual reset you device, delete all your current messages which I have refused to do.
It is a new network with expected teething issues, but my god I am getting no where.
Got two emails. One confirming order and a second confirming dispatch.
eSIMs and all? Nice one!
Will probably give it a week or two for the teething issues to be resolved and port over from Vodafone. Currently paying 25 a month.
I ported my 086 number in a few days after activating the sky service in an eSIM that had an 089 number. It can be done from within the MySky app
Correct.
Currently on the 9.99 Gomo plan and no issues really except when abroad I can't get connected to a network a lot of the time (restart phone, trying to manually select network…) and if I do the data download is like dial up - I'm guessing since this is Vodafone it's likely to be a lot better coverage? Plus 5G would be a little bonus
did you get a confirmation email to say it was dispatched or anything?
you can select a date and time as far as I’m aware - I also had the option to choose as soon as possible.
I ordered one on Wednesday night still haven’t received it.
When I activate, does the switch/port auto take place or do I select the time?
Just ordered a physical SIM card there, anyone know or have experience with how long it takes to arrive?
yep. You have to choose to activate.
Im going to pull the trigger.
Do I just order online, choose switch and nothing happens until I choose to activate and it switches straight away?
Don't want my gomo going into the next month.
I'm leaning towards pulling the trigger myself. As much as I'd like to be on GoMo, the coverage is just too poor here. I know I could possibly rely on Wi-Fi calling in the house but even outside it's quite bad. Whereas Vodafone's network is much better.
I switched from gomo €15 aswell. No brainer, better network, better coverage, better data speeds and unlimited roaming in the EU. Also no fair usage policy on the data. Gomo was 120GB of data for ireland and 16GB For Europe.
gomo has been fine in the past few years local/international both except for a few blackouts. In general we were happy with it for €15 unlimited. My partner uses vodafone for work and believes its much superior to eir network. so this sky deal was a no brainer along with unlimited eu/uk data + esim support + real customer support on call (even though they are clueless now but am sure these things will iron out with time).
I've 5g with gomo too. Always have receptions, usually full bars 5G but unless I'm in specific spots, the data speeds are never great.
Both of us had 5G plan with GoMo.
