roaming 48 network in UK/Europe

Have you changed settings through the sim toolkit?

There are other threads about 48 now pretty much devoted to this issue. Since Covid I’ve been to UK good few times and never had an issue but went to Spain at Easter and had issues. Nothing for a couple of days but then started working when I went to the other end of resort.

Ive been all around Europe and stuck in many sticky situations due to 48. After trying everything, it simply doesnt work aborad. Roaming is a heap of sh... when it comes to 48. Best think you can do is leave them, no roaming issues with EIR at the moment

My daughter is on the €7.99 with 48. She went to Portugal yesterday, came off the plane,she had roaming,10 minutes later it was gone. Unfortunately for her she has a glucose sensor on her for her blood sugars, and relies on the phone for readings. (Type 1 diabetic). She is currently using her friends hotspot to give her connection.

My friend went to Scotland earlier, has no connection to 48 either.

https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/48-says-no-data-roaming-in-parts-of-europe-until-september-41814751.html

Seems the problem is widespread now, they are admitting that roaming in Germany, Czezh and Holland doesnt work but also admitting that people are having trouble in other countries without naming them, from the thread here we know there have been issues in NI & UK, Belgium, Spain and Portgual.

They should really be informing their customers via text of these problems becasue as it is many dont know until they walk out the door of their airport and need to use data to check transport options but are left high and dry. Its really sh1tty behaviour to do that to people, it has the potential to ruin your holiday.

Vodafone PAYG 5GB / €5 add on is possibly a better option for roaming data. Lyca have a data add on for same price with 3GB allowance.

Vodafone SIM stays active for 8 months before needling another top up, AFAIK Lyca SIM needs top up every 3 months (unless that has changed recently).

48 roaming doesnt work , either get a new sim for travel or change network. I've had a horrendous experience with 48 abroad

I was in the UK a few weeks back. We had a GoMo phone , a Vodafone phone and a An Post phone. All worked flawlessly.

it does work, but it's far too convoluted.

I dont think it's as simple as that, I've been in Spain for two weeks now and it's worked perfectly for me, simply by using the 48 toolkit. Earlier this summer I was in both London and Belfast and had a terrible time, dropping connections multiple times a day despite manually entering apn settings, having tried the toolkit beforehand.

The apn settings doesn't fix things in all instances

Just went through this process for my wife who is currently in France and had no data but it’s now working.

the following is what you do for an iPhone XR:

go to settings>mobile data>Mobile data network> In APN type in 48months.liffeytelecom.com leave username and password blank.

Then scroll down and input: 

MMS- 48months.liffeytelecom.com.

MMSC-

MMS Proxy- I deleted this info in case it’s particular to the phone account

Username : Blank/not set

Password : Blank/not set.

Just for others who have had problems with roaming, on my last trip to the UK it wouldnt work and that was the third occasion it happened (Belgium & Portugal before it). So once it didnt work I bought a Lyca mobile sim in Stanstead Airport for £25 to solve the problem. Got home and on to 48 chat and after some back and forth they credited my account with four months membership (32 euro). They tried to get away with just three months but I wasnt having it, I wanted my costs covered or else it was a complaint to Comreg. Once Comreg was mentioned they relented and agreed to four months.

So if you find yourself high and dry abroad just go and buy a sim, photograph the receipt and get the money back off them as credit when you get home. No point in entering and re-entering APN settings in the vague hope they might work, if they dont work off the bat then they are not going to work.

yeah each time Ive done the APN stuff Ive made 5 or 6 attempts with some variations of re-booting the whole phone but it still hasnt worked. So when the same crap was happening for the 3rd trip abroad in a row I just said fcuk this and bought a sim so I didnt have the stress of having no data while trying to navigate Londons public transport.

It really is a load of sh1te, roaming has worked flawlessly on other networks for 20+ years so this mess by 48 is a joke. They say they will have it repaired by September so lets see. My first problem with it was October last year so its taking them long enough which doesnt inspire confidence. Im abroad again in October and if its still not working after a few APN attempts I'll be doing the same and buying a local sim and then claiming the cost of it off them when I get back home.

it doesnt work, even if you keep messing around with their settings

Good for you, glad it did. Didnt work for me and neither for anyone that was with me as well and that was on three seperate trips. Spain, UK and Italy. Following all 48 guidelines and nothing.

It's not the APN settings really I think, it's the Sim profile that's being used.

When in most of Europe, it needs to be the Belgacom profile. The Sim should automatically switch to this because the vast majority of people wouldn't have a clue (and shouldn't need to) about that.

Thats what I did, I jumped ship. Went to eir but I'm looking to move again, eir are hit and miss. I was very happy with 48, the only issue i had with them was roaming. I travel a lot so roaming is a pretty big deal !