Will any of the EE (or, at a push, Vodafone) based operators let me use my Apple Watch cellular on their plan?
I think @Bubblesthefish6 managed to get an eSIM to work on it but can’t remember which.
EE has become dreadful in London recently. Not sure if anyone has experienced the same?
Vodafone allows you to have a sim option on your Apple Watch. I’ve had it the past.
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EE do as well but they’re both ~£7/mo. I wondered if mozillion, lebara, etc, etc might do it more cheaply but couldn’t see much info out there
That is exactly what I said but they were insistent on running me through a new credit check, funny thing was it was a cheaper tariff. Needless to say i said no and asked for my PAC.
Wrong
Before EE was a thing they did not exist. First it was Mercury, then one2one then Mercury one2one, then T-Mobile, they then bought Orange but due to typical UK rules they had to keep them separate therefore EE (Everything Everywhere) was formed. They then slowly wound down Orange in the UK to keep EE the master brand. Orange is still about out side of the UK in places like Spain and France etc.
EE (originally short for EverythingEverywhere) was a joint venture between T-Mobile (owned by Deutsche Telekom) and Orange (owned by France Télécom), which was then bought by BT.
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Sigh, my point wasn’t about the brands but rather the priority given to masts and the service.
The exact order in which the companies formed and merged wasn’t my point.
I do miss the orange brand, I joined them from very early on in the UK, I only left because of signal issues caused by the merger.
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Likewise. In fact, my first Orange phone displayed the network as Hutchison, until they sent an OTA SIM update to change it to Orange.
I signed up to Honest for three years, I’m impressed with the app so far and now I have the SIM will probably start a port in over the weekend.
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Same here. EE (non MVNO) in London is really slow at the moment. I think either they’ve oversubscribed themselves in London. Or they are completing lots of upgrades and the network is down.
In terms of EE MVNOs, I believe Spusu uses EE for some of the network - but they use their own infrastructure for a lot more. So the data traffic ends up going to Austria; before coming back. That slows down things.
Slice (Luca) I tried and it was too slow. I suspect as Luca doesn’t pay for all the bands.
1PMobile, I know uses 100% an EE solution for the MVNO side. This in essence means it’s entirely EE! For how long that can last, I do wonder. But for the 99.99% EE experience, need to go to 1pMobile.
However even with the EE plan I have now - with 5GSA and the network boost (priority in busy areas) I still find it very slow at the moment.
I believe Mozillion is the same, no? They use the same bands (apart from one if I recall) so the service is essentially 100% EE.
Not noticed a drop in speed in London around Soho area when I’ve been working past week, but did have a dead zone in Reading whereas my 3 signal was top notch.
Not tried Mozillion. I thought they were similar to Lyca (Slice) and didn’t have the full band range.
According to this, both Lyca/Slice and Mozillion have full access.
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Anyone got a recommendation for an eSIM for Asia? Specifically for Thailand, Indonesia, China and Hong Kong
I don’t think that is correct. Lyca (Slice) confirmed to me they do not have all the bands.
I have the same plan and it’s dreadful!
Check the ones listed on Trip.com, they seem very competitive.
You can either buy fixed data with unrestricted speeds, or a daily amount and throttle after, or unlimited speed capped
They are provided by CMLink (China Mobile) and route via Singapore
Asia eSIM - Prepaid & Unlimited Data from $4.99 | Maya Mobile is okay aswell, also routing via SP
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