Sky Mobile, coming to Ireland

GOMO I had nothing but good experiences with them. Just unfortunate my new phone is e-sim only so I had to port out. But would deffo return if they introduce it

Can you receive SMS to allow you to port out ? That’s what stopped me from porting my main number.

I ported in an old 083 number I wasn’t using but was able to receive SMS so couldn’t port it out.

Visual voicemail and live voicemail are both working for me on Sky, iOS 18.

Live voicemail comes with iOS 18 regardless of carrier I believe. Visual voicemail is dependent on your carrier.

I believe Sky are the first to now implement Visual Voicemail in Ireland? Works great.

Visual Voicemail does not work. Sky is advertising the new iOS 18.0 Live Voicemail feature as Visual Voicemail. If Visual Voicemail worked then the user that commented earlier using an iPhone 11 on iOS 17.7 would be able to use it, instead they get a message stating "Visual Voicemail is currently unavailable".

I just turned off my phone and called my number from my work phone, left a voicemail through the Sky provided voicemail, rebooted the phone and the voicemail is nowhere to be found unless I call 171 (the voicemail number).

To confirm this further, I turned off Live Voicemail in the phone app, called my phone number again, didn't answer, let it go to voicemail, left a message. I got a notification from the Phone app that I have a new voicemail, but it's not Visual and is only a blue dot next to the "Call Network Provider Voicemail" button.

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I think Visual voicemail only works for a few people on iOS 18 on supported iPhones. It works for me on Sky Mobile, as I have the playback options in the voicemail section on the phone app. Possibly it is not working for the user that commented earlier using an iPhone 11 on iOS 17.7 is because they are not on iOS 18 or using a supported iPhone? It's not working for my husband on his iPhone 14 on iOS 17, but it's working for me on my iPhone 15 on iOS 18.

To activate iMessage, you need credit because it sends a text to a UK phone number for activation. This is why it might not be working for you. With a Vodafone PAYG plan, you need to spend €20 for example activate your plan first but that consumes your entire €20 leaving you with €0 in credit to text a UK number so you would need to top up an extra €5 in credit I think is the minimum for that iMessage activation text to send.

However, with Bill Pay, this isn't an issue since the charges are billed to your account. If you're a new Vodafone customer, they usually provide €0.50 of credit for free to help you activate iMessage for the first time. Or at least that's what they did for me when I switched to them.

Sky Mobile seems to just be refusing to send that UK activation text, probably to prevent me from being charged an out of bundle charge, even though I have enabled them.

lucky duck no 2fa texts tried numerous times

Are people receiving physical SIMS at all yet? Five days for me and counting.

Nope, no IPv6 address.

I am unable to add my number to my Apple account because the verification text never comes in, so I suspect if there is issues with verification texts, there is an issue with iMessage or FaceTime.

EDIT: The verification text now works, added my number to my Apple account, however getting an iMessage activation error.

You can check if you are in credit using the MyVodafone app from the App Store. Good luck with your porting, hope it all goes well.

Received my sim card today (ordered Thursday) , apart from a minor issue / delay with the 'registered' phone the process of porting has run smoothly ,no issues with authentication so far .

Ok based on some limited evidence, and coupled with a leap of faith, I managed to fix my 2FA SMS issue!

Basically I ported my number over, and now it's working.

So I assume the 2FA issue exists with the Sky 089 numbers, hence only some customers are affected.

Anyhow perhaps this might help some others. Although unfortunately if you're keeping the 089 Sky number then you'll need to wait for Sky to fix the issue.

Same here, ported from Three and have issues. Wonder is it porting from Three causing issues.