Got email from Sky https://www.sky.com/shop/pre-reg/mobile
Only problem is, it doesnt recognise Irish mobile phone numbers :-)
When trying to sign up online it keeps telling me "We recognise you but not your email address. Please sign up - blah, blah, blah"
Do I have to have a Sky account before signing up for sim-only mobile phone?
no. If it’s easier you could sign up on the phone, if it’s giving you too much hassle online you could just use another email.
Same thing is happening on the phone and with more than one email address.
Ended up having to ring them and got sorted
how are you finding it so far? If you got esim of course.
Nah got the physical sim card
I ended up ringing as my existing sky account had a phone number issue (that they couldn't explain) and required a magnifying glass to read the back of my home broadband.
Anyways, lady said they'd put through the mobile order. I'd recommend not doing it on the phone, took 20 mins and she read everything twice in an Indian accent.
Still unsure if I'll go with it when it arrives.
Done, two SIMs.
Had to re-do the port. During the combined port / activation it never asked if my number was “registered” and then the port failed. Got an email to say this. Re-attempted in a dedicated porting form and it ported in less than two mins.
Painfully also had to manually add the APN settings which I can see confusing your average Joe.
Did you get sorted?
Ported from Gomo today. Sim took around a week to arrive. Number ported immediately and MFA working as normal. Totally seamless experience tbf and the text notifications are great.
What phone number do you ring?
Sounds ok.
To sign up it's 0818 719 819
anybody able to port physical sim number to a esim? Trying through the app… I never get the verification SMS containing the code to make sure I'm the genuine account holder. It's not been working for me for the past week or so.
Not yet, but the new sim arrived in today's post and I since managed to get an Irish sky guy who said that the issue is that Gomo want ports put through as single line (even if multi line - typical eir if so!) so we'll see if that solves the issue tomorrow
Interesting how dispatch was so quick for your second run. Let me know if you get ported as I'm the same.
I had the same. Placed my order on Tuesday and got the SIM yesterday. I was expecting it to take a week or more.
you can put it through as a single line port and it works away
For a multi line account?
@TheDriver That's what I did. I had two lines on GoMo, put the initial port as a multi-line account. Got that error. Reprocessed as a single line and it went through in a couple hours.
yea, I had two numbers on my gomo account, Mine and one of the kids. ported them both in two separate transactions as single lines
I received my GoMo SIM in the mail yesterday and after testing it out, WiFi calling and texting worked right away, and the data speeds at home are comparable, with lower latency for sure than Sky. So I completed the port and got my cancelation email from Sky almost immediately, as I'm still within the cooling-off period. I'd consider moving back if Sky gets their **** together and can deliver on promised features, because I hear the Vodafone network is more consistent in the shticks, so while driving that would be an asset, if so.
Sim cards finally arrived after 10 days.
But after reading issues here re:
…………I'm wondering if I should take the leap.
I was previously on Vodafone (€65pm) and found it the best network in my work building, which is not great for coverage in general, so I switched to Eir (€20pm). It was great to think of getting back on Vodafones network for €15pm, but is it worth the risk at this early stage with all the teething problems?
Also, I got 2 sim cards, one for my son too. If I port his number across will it kick in the billing for both sims or could I use his as a tester?
Both sims would be treated separately and you will only be billed for the ones you activate. I'd take the risk. I know there's lots of people here saying they had problems but I think vast majority switched without issues and few that ran into issues had them sorted reasonably quickly. They seem like they could do with improving sim delivery tracking and their website is a bit buggy but once set up you're signal/speeds will be same as Vodafone at a cheaper rate.
Unfortunately, my 2FA stopped working today, but did work just fine last week …. anyone else having the same issue? I can get normal SMS or porting codes, but not system generated 2FA messages.
Yes, I'm the same today - Tried logging into eBay this morning and no 2FA received, tried resend option three times and no text received, also tried Amazon login and it's the same. 2FA messages from both were working up to yesterday.
Revenue still OK for me here, haven't tried any others.
thank you @Glaceon, just tested, revenue.ie works, but mygovid.ie does not nor airlines (e.g. KLM), that all worked last week. not sure what is going on there.
Old fogey here, living in a rural 4G area. I have an old Vodafone MiFi router, Model R216.
It's locked to Vodafone and a key factor for me in deciding whether or not to activate my Sky SIM is whether or not it will work in this router. Can anyone advise whether it will, please? Many thanks.
I use TOTPs via an authenticator app for most things but it would concern me if something broke that requires SMS.
There's a report a few pages back of Sky throttling the speed to 12 Mb/s if it's used in a router so I wouldn't chance it.
