In theory yes but in practice I’ve been with my partner in Europe and both were on O2 and both connected to different networks. Generally you never see any difference overseas as the phones connect to the strongest signal most of the time.
The spec. allows for preferred roaming partners but it doesn’t preclude any other available networks if the preferred signal is weak or disappears.
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I’m with Three just now and they are absolutely awful.
The coverage is just horrendous cannot wait to switch away from them!
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Just switched from voxi to 1p mobile with the new tariffs. There now doing visual voicemail as having issues with voxi losing 3G in certain areas.
Fair enough. “An available network” is probably more accurate.
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Got an email while holding my phone that my expired, cancelled Youtube Premium subscription had been renewed using O2 BillPay as a payment method - which I did setup, but I definitely cancelled this subscription - How did it renew itself? It’s been over 5-6 months since I’ve had premium benefits
I’m a bit confused with what has happened to my Sky Mobile bill. It was due on Sunday, but I pay direct debit so expected it to be taken today. It hasn’t been. Yet, my Sky account is telling me it has been paid despite no money leaving my account. Any ideas what is going on?
Direct debit payments are marked as paid before they’re actually collected by some. Not sure if that applies to Sky.
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Thank you! Seems an odd way to do it if so. You would think “paid” would just mean “paid” rather than “before they are paid”
They mark it as paid when they submit it and then returned if it fails. Again not sure if Sky do it this way but quite possible.
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Someone else in your family?
Did it bill you yearly or monthly price?
Were you previously on monthly or yearly?
The direct debit has come out so it must be what you said.
I am currently glad I’ve switch to Sky Mobile. The coverage in my area seems to be a bit better than Voxi, plus the roll over for 12 months is such a nice feature.
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Just a heads up it appears EE might be having Wifi Calling issues. My phone implied it had wifi calling but on reboot it was gone.
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That’s why mines gone
It’s fair to say I didn’t notice
Ignore what I said before. I’ve done a somewhat longer real world test.
I’m abroad in France at the moment and have a dual SIM (Smarty and spusu). I’m also with someone who has Giffgaff.
The Giffgaff user is constantly noticing that they have no signal when both Smarty and spusu both have a good connection, and sometimes gets only 3G when others have 4G or 5G.
Of Smarty and spusu, spusu seems to have better connectivity, but not by much and there’s only a real noticeable difference when in remote areas.
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My EE Wificalling is back I noticed today, must be fixed, not like I need it
Is spusu doing contracts, or is it more like a prepaid offer similar to Lyca? I need a new secondary SIM for 2FA texts from places I wouldn’t want to have my main number.
Spusu have the roaming agreements (presumably) of their European counterpart - I found that it can always access more networks
Vodafone will almost always be the worst option when visiting another country where Vodafone operates - you will usually be locked to just Vodafone’s network which is usually always the worst one
Giffgaff, O2 ring the same - i.e O2 can only access Telefonica’s Movistar in Spain and other countries where Telefonica operates
Since T-Mobile and Orange operate together in a lot of countries, EE can often use at least both of them but i’ve always found EE to have multiple networks available
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I have just checked and my Spusu payments were taken by card not direct debit so it’s not a contract
It’s a 30 day rolling thing like Lyca
I used to do similar to what you do with the secondary number for places that you do not want to give your main number to however I found it tiresome after a few months
As I kept that number turned off unless I needed to FA and I had to remember to turn the number back on before sending the 2FA again
O2: “your final bill is £85”
Proceeds to collect £79 via DD. What’s going on? I can’t log into the account to see what’s going on…
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