LycaMobile, €10 a month, unlimited data, 5G included

So is this the best value plan out there at the moment?

Lyca €10 a month for 12 months. 5g. 7gb EU roaming

48.ie is €12.99 a month. 4g? 11gb EU roaming.

eir is €15 a month for 12 months and offers 5g. And virgin mobile, but they have data caps like 5g a month or so.

GoMo.ie, AnPost, Tesco, ClearMobile etc. are all €15 but 4g.

Vodafone and Three are much more expensive.

Anyone offering e-sims?

What speeds are you getting please? Can you post a speed benchmark maybe?

Thanks. Have you used this in the UK? Or Europe? I dont have a 5g phone though (iphone 11)

Thank you! I like the upload speed especially. 100/50 would be pretty much perfect for me. In fact 50/50 or even 50/25 would also be fine.

I found their customer care to be exactly the same as yours, I bought the 110 euros for 12 months offer and they charged me the "normal" 160 euros.

Contacted them umpteen times and nothing, chat tells me to email them, and email tells me that they promise to reply. The cycle continues, but seems there is nobody there, that does anything or knows anything.

Taking a punt on this for my sim router, 48 used to give me 100-150mb/s consistnetly but now it's down to about 2mb/s. If I use an older router I get about 20mb/s, so they've filtered something on latest tech i'm guessing. Got a couple of years out of it so be happy if I get a year out of this one!

Based on my experience with Lyca customer care, I would be thankful, the port didn't go through and keep my number away from them.

5G speeds now gone to useless in my 5G router :-( I suspect they blacklist Mac addresses or something for using in a router. I'll have to try the sim in my wife's phone (mine not 5G) to confirm.

I had tried in attic and was getting speeds of 350 Mb/s ...... Now it's 0.06 Mb/s

Ah I was trying to find their terms. I got onto chat and they actually told me 60gb. So it is quite ridiculous that they can advertise as unlimited.

I complained to the advertising authority about this one.... For all the good it would do. They need to bring in a rule though where you have to specify data at full speed. Yeah I'm raging I missed out on the three offer. €25 every 4 weeks for three (with 5G) is now the best offer I can find!

Yeah I use two of the 7.99 SIM cards and switch them out of the router. 100GB per month per plan. I generally get 3 weeks out of 100gb so internet works out at about €11.50 per month. Had issues over summer for a few weeks where SIM was going slow in one of my routers but seems back to normal now.

Was just looking at the three plan. Unlimited data if you top up by €20 every 28 days. Could then use €5 of this credit to upgrade to 5G not sure what I'd use the rest on. So maybe that is best value if nothing in black Friday.

48 are upfront though none of this "unlimited data" fair use policy hidden stuff... You know you are paying for 100GB or 200GB depending on plan, as it's stated clearly. Much better than competition in that respect

Yeah i was with them years ago when it was €20 a month and the top up got you the benefits and you still had the credit. I'll contact them to clarify. You can use the credit for android playstore apps and subscriptions i think

EDIT

20E credit was available with the old prepay plan but that plan has been discontinued.

That was the respone from three. So thanks for prompting me to check....so leaves it as €25 best deal for unlimited 5G per month. Do I pay double what I am now for speeds I don't really need...Logically it would be no.... but it's not that much money in the grand scheme of things and I do like my tech :-D I'll see what black Friday brings.

Im with GOMO myslef, but am looking for a simcard for a teenager. Do GOMO, 48 etc do Black Friday deals does anyone recall???

I was roaming in Hungary last week and my Lyca SIM wouldn't register to any local network, whereas my Eir one was fine. Now that I'm back in Ireland, I still can't get any signal at all on my Lyca SIM.

Thanks. Actually (and oddly) I just had to select the operator manually and I'm back online, with texts from 1-2 days ago only coming through now.

Will one of these work in a router as a home broadband alternative or is it not allowed by Lycamobile ?

Have Eir Billpay at the moment; is it handy enough to switch to Lyca eSIM?