€15 - 20GB + Unlimited any network calls and texts + free roaming - Lycamobile

NATLOR

castle2012 wrote: »

Really is a great deal . Considering you keep your credit

Depends on what your needs are,I make a lot of calls so not so great for me

tallaghtfornia

castle2012 wrote: »

Really is a great deal . Considering you keep your credit

Sorry to sound dumb!

How do you keep your credit ?

RHJ

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bliger

Is lycamobile free roaming in usa over? Its not on their website anymore.

castle2012

tallaghtfornia wrote: »

castle2012 wrote: »

Really is a great deal . Considering you keep your credit

Sorry to sound dumb!

How do you keep your credit ?

Not a dumb question at all. Most network s take your credit these days as you purchase a bundle. For me I top up with 15 euro , for topping up you get 30gb of data and 300 mins to other landlines or mobiles , I have an I phone and use wats app so I barely text the regular way . I think I'll find it hard to spend the credit in the month .

doxy

Inbox wrote: »

I tried to use the porting number online but I keep getting this message,anyone else??

Dear Customer ,Your portout has been rejected due to the reason 'Pre/post flag mismatch' please contact your donor operator

I'm moving from tesco mobile and all the sim numbers are correct.

Did u ever get that sorted? Am getting the same message trying to port from Virgin.

doxy

Inbox wrote: »

I tried to use the porting number online but I keep getting this message,anyone else??

Dear Customer ,Your portout has been rejected due to the reason 'Pre/post flag mismatch' please contact your donor operator

I'm moving from tesco mobile and all the sim numbers are correct.

Did u ever get that sorted? Am getting the same message trying to port from Virgin.

lawred2

doxy wrote: »

Did u ever get that sorted? Am getting the same message trying to port from Virgin.

get in touch with Lyca Ireland on Twitter - their support is decent on there. I had porting problems sorted in short order through them.

doxy

lawred2 wrote: »

get in touch with Lyca Ireland on Twitter - their support is decent on there. I had porting problems sorted in short order through them.

I messaged them on twitter after work. Seems the port failed because I'm on bill pay with Virgin. Can you not port from bill pay to pre pay???

I'll be well pissed if I'm stuck with Virgin. I only signed up with them to avail of the €5 for 5 months.

deiseindublin

I rang and they told me that it's much easier to port from bill free/prepay. I was out of contract with 02 so rang three and asked them to put me on ready to go/prepay and the port out worked within an hour of me filling in the form then.

pjq

EU Roaming

Am I correct in thinking that Lyca have changed their post 15 June roaming charges from 29c initially announced, to 9c/15c (landline/mobile) for roaming in EU ?
Does anybody know how the out of bundle 9c/mb compares to other networks? Would it be worthwhile for Lyca users to pick up a SIM from another Irish network before heading off on holidays in EU?
I'm thinking of countries not included in their add on bundles http://www.lycamobile.ie/sysimages/editorfiles/Home_April_2015_IE1.pdf?awc=6022_1497521109_9e2968fa6c02f7833276d2e85e149ff8 . I see that 48month network seem to have 300mins +1gm for EU for €10- , so it might pay for itself if I make a few calls and use 100mb.

Kristopherus

pjq wrote: »

EU Roaming

Am I correct in thinking that Lyca have changed their post 15 June roaming charges from 29c initially announced, to 9c/15c (landline/mobile) for roaming in EU ?
Does anybody know how the out of bundle 9c/mb compares to other networks? Would it be worthwhile for Lyca users to pick up a SIM from another Irish network before heading off on holidays in EU?

It seems to me that Lyca will not allow you to use your bundle minutes & texts while roaming. They have implemented a payg system. I think thats illegal. All the other networks allow you to use your home minutes while roaming. Lyca are claiming that their bundles sre applicable to Ireland only.

TheDriver

Ironic that the network you could roam for free last year are now the network that aren't free when the rest are.

September1

Maybe they are talking about former roaming bundles? I contacted them for clarification but I never got any answer. If you look at T&C they say

• If, over a 4 month period, your use of EU roaming services is greater than your domestic usage we will notify you of this and then charge you at national PAYG rates.

Which would suggest that maybe national bundles would work?

bk

From what I've seen Lyca seems to be the only company who are breaking the EU rules, well going by what they say on their website.

48 months also seem a bit dodgy, requiring you to switch down to the Guido plan in other to gain roaming privileges. You can't get EU roaming on either of their other two plans, which I believe is against the EU rules.

From what I can see, it looks like all the other companies are more or less following the rules and offering something.

cormie

What's the story with it, I thought the roaming allowance was just the same as what you have at home? I've been text by Eir on the sim only business plan that I can bring 6.3gb of my data allowance with me while roaming, I thought I could bring the full allowance?

TheDriver

cormie wrote: »

What's the story with it, I thought the roaming allowance was just the same as what you have at home? I've been text by Eir on the sim only business plan that I can bring 6.3gb of my data allowance with me while roaming, I thought I could bring the full allowance?

Nope, its all the calls, texts and a portion of data (theres a formula from the EU). Vodafone allow all your allowance except most people's vodafone allowance is significantly less than your 6Gb

bk

cormie wrote: »

What's the story with it, I thought the roaming allowance was just the same as what you have at home? I've been text by Eir on the sim only business plan that I can bring 6.3gb of my data allowance with me while roaming, I thought I could bring the full allowance?

There was a last minute change to the plans that mean that while calls and texts have to be the same as home, data can be less.

dRNk SAnTA

Today I took the plunge and switched to Virgin Mobile from Lyca.

There was no other choice really...

- €15p/m for first 6 months (€25 p/m after)
- 30gb 4g Internet
- Unlimited calls & texts
- 5.5gb Data Roaming in EU

I'm away on holiday this weekend so the roaming was really important.

I have to say I'm pretty impressed so far. Virgin couriered a sim card to me today, and my number switched in less than 5 minutes.

I know it sounds overly positive and I must work for them, but I honestly don't. In fact I hate their TV service.

If Lycamobile are going to pull a fast one on us, then I'd recommend you all look in to the alternatives.

cormie

Thanks folks, ok, so the EU directive thingy I read last year said the package will be exactly as it is at home, so they changed it so data is a certain % allowed from your at home allowance and that's EU wide?

That's a bit of a pity, I was thinking the same allowance at home thing would make competition a lot stronger and drive pricing down.

deiseindublin

bk wrote: »

From what I've seen Lyca seems to be the only company who are breaking the EU rules

I wonder will ComReg follow up with Lyca?

maurice1

Can You spot the difference between normal rates and saver rates?
http://lycamobile.ie/sysimages/mediamanager/EU_Roaming_IrelandEN.pdf

Are these prices for all calls or just for calls where no bundle is purchased?

54and56

So if you want some EU roaming on your holidays is the ID Mobile €15 a month plan the new Lyca?

I've two teenagers who use feck all minutes but loads of data and will be heading to France in a few weeks. Should I switch them over to ID? I assume ID is a piggy back network but it claims to offer 4G so I guess it's not on the old O2 3G network that Lyca is on?

Zimmerframe

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

So if you want some EU roaming on your holidays is the ID Mobile ?15 a month plan the new Lyca?

I've two teenagers who use feck all minutes but loads of data and will be heading to France in a few weeks. Should I switch them over to ID? I assume ID is a piggy back network but it claims to offer 4G so I guess it's not on the old O2 3G network that Lyca is on?

I know it's a fiver more, but surely the Vodafone x student deal at ?20 is the deal to go with, with 20gb 4g data both at home and roaming and free spotify or sky sports ?

54and56

Zimmerframe wrote: »

I know it's a fiver more, but surely the Vodafone x student deal at ?20 is the deal to go with, with 20gb 4g data both at home and roaming and free spotify or sky sports ?

Na, it's only 100 minutes and I already have a family Spotify account with access to all the premium sports channels. They use Spotify all the time but rarely can be ar$ed watching live sports. They watch the odd match with me but that's about it.

2 X €5 X 12 months = €120 in my pocket. Think I'll stick with either Lyca or switch for ID.

biebiebie

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

I've two teenagers who use ...loads of data and will be heading to France in a few weeks.

Boom!
They use loads of data?
Personally I'd switch them to Vodafone X for at least the month. You can always port back afterwards.

54and56

biebiebie wrote: »

Boom!
They use loads of data?
Personally I'd switch them to Vodafone X for at least the month. You can always port back afterwards.

They'll have access to WiFi in France so the outdoors data requirement is going to be well less than 1gb whilst we're there so i think ID Mobile will do. Porting is a pain.

TheDriver

Porting is dead easy on payg, you could do it every month. Never took more than few mins for me and I went vodafone- o2 - Tesco - lyca - Tesco - meteor

Red Silurian

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

So if you want some EU roaming on your holidays is the ID Mobile €15 a month plan the new Lyca?

The data is pretty similar but Lyca offer unlimited calls and texts to all networks, id offer 300 mins 0 texts and unlimited own network calls/texts

I imagine that where EU roaming is concerned Lyca will most likely be forced to refund their customers that aren't getting the new EU deal (possibly with interest as free credit) sooner than later

Kristopherus

Did anyone here complain to Comreg about Lyca's antics re E.U roaming?

Red Silurian

Kristopherus wrote: »

Did anyone here complain to Comreg about Lyca's antics re E.U roaming?

According to the comreg website we need to complain to Lyca first as customers of theirs which I am not (yet anyway)

Suckit

What are Lycamobiles EU charges? As i understand it (unless i have read it incorrectly), they offer roaming.
When abroad, the charges are:

To call Irish Landlines 9c per minute
To call Irish Lycamobile Mobiles 5c per minute
To call all other Irish Mobiles 15c per minute
To send an SMS to an Irish phone is 6c per SMS
Data 9c Per MB
To receive calls and texts is free.

wiz569

Suckit wrote: »

What are Lycamobiles EU charges? As i understand it (unless i have read it incorrectly), they offer roaming.
When abroad, the charges are:

To call Irish Landlines 9c per minute
To call Irish Lycamobile Mobiles 5c per minute
To call all other Irish Mobiles 15c per minute
To send an SMS to an Irish phone is 6c per SMS
Data 9c Per MB
To receive calls and texts is free.

Your not allowed use your bundled mins,texts or data while roaming

Suckit

Ah. Okay, so if i top up for the month €15 or whatever, that credit is useless abroad?
I need separate credit?

Red Silurian

Suckit wrote: »

Ah. Okay, so if i top up for the month €15 or whatever, that credit is useless abroad?
I need separate credit?

How did you come to that conclusion?

TheDriver

more so, you need credit as your included minutes/data are not usable abroad

castle2012

And watch out at 9 cent per mb,, if your like myself and would used 1gb per week that's €90 euro . What a rip off

54and56

castle2012 wrote: »

And watch out at 9 cent per mb,, if your like myself and would used 1gb per week that's €90 euro . What a rip off

And it's primarily for that reason that I'm in the process of switching 3 members of my family from Lyca to ID Mobile.

jamesthepeach

castle2012 wrote: »

And watch out at 9 cent per mb,, if your like myself and would used 1gb per week that's €90 euro . What a rip off

I thought there was a max out of bundle charge per GB when roaming nder the new rules even if they don't give you any for free.

IdHidden

Lyca will not allow you to use your national Irish bundles in the EU you have to use their payg rates. Data is now .09c/MByte. I think that is illegal. Someone needs to contact ComReg.

Red Silurian

IdHidden wrote: »

Lyca will not allow you to use your national Irish bundles in the EU you have to use their payg rates. Data is now .09c/MByte. I think that is illegal. Someone needs to contact ComReg.

That's good value for roaming data most of them are a little over 0.9c/MB (a little over €9/GB) in line with EU rules

I might be mistaken but I don't see any way of contacting Lyca customer care, do they have customer care?

WayneEnterprise

colmtheperson wrote: »

That's good value for roaming data most of them are a little over 0.9c/MB (a little over €9/GB) in line with EU rules

I might be mistaken but I don't see any way of contacting Lyca customer care, do they have customer care?

01 437 2322 or from Lycamobile 1923

It's at the top of their homepage.

wotzgoingon

colmtheperson wrote: »

That's good value for roaming data most of them are a little over 0.9c/MB (a little over €9/GB) in line with EU rules

I might be mistaken but I don't see any way of contacting Lyca customer care, do they have customer care?

I wouldn't even bother trying to call them. I called once and was on the phone at least half an hour before I got through and then they are Indian with funny accents who can barely understand you and you can barely understand them.

RHJ

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Highcontrast1

Has anyone else's internet been bad the past 2 weeks?

castle2012

RHJ wrote: »

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I moved to . 4g speed a massive improvement compared to 3G

pjq

castle2012 wrote: »

And watch out at 9 cent per mb,, if your like myself and would used 1gb per week that's €90 euro . What a rip off

Colmthe person wrote;
"That's good value for roaming data most of them are a little over 0.9c/MB (a little over €9/GB) in line with EU rules"

I think that €90- calculation is the correct one?

I just ordered a sim from 48 , the plan is to use the €10- monthly membership for calls and data in the Baltics and Finland. After the holiday I'll think of Lyxit for 3 family members.

WayneEnterprise

I just bought the 12GB sim from Three UK and plan to use that whenever I'm travelling either in Europe or the States. Then use Lyca at home as it's only costing me €7.50 a month. And I'm sure at some stage Lyca will end up being forced by comreg to let you use your bundle minutes/texts/data while EU roaming.

bk

WayneEnterprise wrote: »

I just bought the 12GB sim from Three UK and plan to use that whenever I'm travelling either in Europe or the States. Then use Lyca at home as it's only costing me €7.50 a month. And I'm sure at some stage Lyca will end up being forced by comreg to let you use your bundle minutes/texts/data while EU roaming.

That is exactly what I'm doing. Well I already had the Three SIM and have 6 months left on it.

Red Silurian

pjq wrote: »

castle2012 wrote: »

And watch out at 9 cent per mb,, if your like myself and would used 1gb per week that's €90 euro . What a rip off

Colmthe person wrote;
"That's good value for roaming data most of them are a little over 0.9c/MB (a little over €9/GB) in line with EU rules"

I think that €90- calculation is the correct one?

I just ordered a sim from 48 , the plan is to use the €10- monthly membership for calls and data in the Baltics and Finland. After the holiday I'll think of Lyxit for 3 family members.

I think it originally said 9c/GB or something like that... I said I'd stick with three for the moment until Lyca start playing ball with their EU rates