Fresh out today, looks like Revolut are finally launching it £12.50 introductory per month to March rising to £14.99 thereafter. They will also be using Vodafone for their network
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I’m possibly being blind but I can’t find the option for it anywhere!
Revpoints > eSIM
The Messaging Pass looks like it is replicating Honest Mobile’s Smart SIM. Does it say anything about only working with limited numbers of apps or does it cover everything just at lower bandwidth?
It does state online browsing so maybe it’s just a very slow cap.
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The messaging pass provides at least 250MB of roaming data with an estimated maximum speed of 16Kbps, designed for text-based messaging app use, such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Telegram. You will automatically connect when in an included country outside of the EEA and the US (listed here). The Messaging Pass is not designed for high-bandwidth internet access (for example, non-text content sharing, streaming, or internet calls). Any use outside of its intended purpose may result in your allowance being quickly consumed.
Speeds of the Internet Service
Estimated maximum speed: 100Mbps (upload and download). 4G and 5G speeds available, depending on coverage and device compatibility. Separate terms apply to Messaging Pass, as detailed above.
If you experience continuous or regularly recurring disruption to the speed of your service, you may have a remedy under consumer law depending on the nature of the disruption. You may raise a complaint in respect of such disruption to the speeds of your service, in accordance with our Code of Complaints, as detailed below.
Is that the metal plan renewal or?
Odd I don’t have it, still the old eSIM data plans only.
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Are you a TestFlight user?
It does say on your shot you posted it’ll come to all customers eventually.
Interesting, so a similar idea but a different method of “policing” than Honest. Honest have a defined list of apps that will work on the Smart SIM (over 500 now) but unlimited data for those apps. Revolut seem to have gone the simpler route of not needing to create a whitelist of apps but with a relatively low data cap. So you can stream Youtube at 1080p while in New Zealand but you’ll run out of data in 5-10 minutes…
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All the neo banks are jumping on the eSIMs bandwagon. Targeted advertising is going to be interesting. Not sure I like my bank to also be my telecom provider. 
All services in one place?
People have their banking, credit card, loan, mortgage and home/car/pet insurance in one place 
Your bank account tells more about you than anything else 
It is 
the direction we are going anyway. Once CBDCs are fully developed all the anti competition regulations will become obsolete. 
I do have my finances in the same banking group, but after a few AWS, Cloudflare mishaps, having a few eggs in different baskets is still the way.
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For this phone plan, does it link up with the existing data eSIM does it say?
Like for example, can you buy a data add-on in the same way you can if roaming somewhere that isn’t covered in the allowance, or does this mean you need 2 eSIMs on the phone if making use of both services?
It doesn’t seem a bad price for what’s included, if you make use of those allowances
They’re provided by two different companies so I doubt they’d link
New Data/Calls/Text plans are provided by Gigs
Old eSIM roaming is provided by 1GLOBAL
It looks like the two are offered differently.
Global will use any network.
Gigs is specifically Vodafone.
So two esims required.
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