Sky Mobile, coming to Ireland

If you’re porting from a VF plan that you can easily get back, why not give Sky a try?

Sky’s working very well for me now - I was an early adopter and experienced all the issues.

Have the odd connectivity hiccup when handing off from WiFi to mobile data sometimes , whereby it’ll sit on edge for a couple of minutes before connecting to 5G. Possibly that’s to do with a local mast though, although a few others have mentioned it also. It’s not a biggie and thinking about it, it hasn’t happened to me in the last couple of days.

What I do now is I use airplane mode at home, and WiFi calling works (iPhone). And then when I leave wifi it’ll switch airplane mode off and 5G on - both aspects are run automatically via 2 iOS automation routines I created.

I also have a shortcut “button” to toggle airplane mode on/off should I need it, which also fixes the Edge issue. Again I haven’t had to use it in over a week I’d say.

two sims activated with number porting from GoMo. Both took a phone call to get over the ‘paused’ status but both are working well.

Noticed occasional ‘no mobile data’ issues that support claims is resolved with adding the APN.

No hot-spot is the single feature missed for tethering an iPad to the phone. Anyone find a solution to that yet?

The Sky app is kinda awkward to use but I see they’ve a requirement for credit card verification to disable adult sites - the usual suspects! Found that odd as the account owner but fine. I noticed as well that the network settings request to the phone doesn’t work.

No showstoppers for us anyway. If they’d only send on the one order from September that’s still outstanding we’d be sorted.

household uses iPhones. Thanks for the tips. Under Settings|Mobile Service|Mobile Data Network there’s a section for personal hotspot asking for the APN, user name & password.

Adding mobile.sky in the apn name and then backing out of the options returns personal hotspot for use.

Thanks deezell for the tips that gave the idea.

Landed in Spain today and automatically connected to movistar but no internet working. Tried to manually change and only options were Vodafone and orange but couldn't connect to either.

Then went into mysky and did a request network settings and that seemed to work.. although only have H+ at minute...after few minutes I have 4G

This is the apn settings I have now in spain

They're MMS setting though by looks of it.

Update 23/10/2024. GoMo have updated their Terms & Conditions yet again! I assume Eir have done the same but I haven't checked yet. These are the new terms. https://gomo.ie/terms/ @TheDriver

"6.4A. For Customers signing up from 1st November 2024, fair usage data limits and/or data allowances referred to in this agreement, including in Clauses 6.4 and 6.6 or in any associated Fair Use Policy (‘FUP’), shall not apply to the Customer’s domestic data usage. We retain the right however to take appropriate steps for traffic management, where for example other users are likely to be adversely affected by a Customer’s actions."

EDIT: I checked Eir's website, their terms were also updated to the following:

"Unlimited data: Unlimited data refers to domestic data and applies to customers who sign up to prepay Simplicity from 22nd October 2024. See here for full details and terms along with text and data roaming fair use policies."

"For Customers signing up from 22 October 2024, fair usage data limits and/or data allowances referred to in the Simplicity Offer, including in Clauses 14, 15 or 23 of these terms and conditions, or in any associated FUP, shall not apply to the Customer's domestic data usage. eir Mobile however continues to retain its right to take appropriate steps for traffic management, where for example other users are likely to be adversely affected by a Customer's actions."

Yeah, that was the only apn

Then went into mysky and did a request network settings and that seemed to work..

This sorted it for me, got 5G access points, and more to the point now have VoLTE and WiFi calling enabled which wasn't the case. I'd always imagined that APNs once provisioned would auto provision updates. Guess not.

Anyway, looks like they're getting there

Switched one number to Sky yesterday. The port was very quick and the basics work. It is not perfect and here are the issues:

1. While download speed is great 80 - 100 Mbps, the upload speed is terrible at 0.3 - 0.6 Mbps. Tried different speedtest servers but is the same. I have full 5G signal on my S23 Ultra and in the same location a vodafone SIM has very decent upload speeds.
2. VoLTE and VoWIFI not working. I don't have the option to activate it on my samsung phone. These features work with a vodafone/eir SIM

Called Sky but they couldn't do anything to solve these issues. I am in Limerick 3Km from the city centre. Anyone having same issues? Any advice?

It might be worth checking to see that you have VoLTE enabled on your phone, this is a common issue as your handset falls back to "2G" to make a call if VoLTE is not enabled.