Sky Mobile, coming to Ireland

PHONER,

What is the MNC in the APN? If it's 01 then you should be good for 5G on any Pixel. If it's not, then unfortunately you may be SOL because Google being the not-so-evil bunch of lads that they are, use a PLMN whitelist and in Ireland only Eir, Three, and Vodafone are on it. GoMo uses the same MNC as Eir, so 5G works on Pixels. 48 uses Liffey Telecom, same as Tesco Mobile, so 5G does not work, as they're not on Google's nice list. Strange, since Three own 48, and one would have thought they'd use the same MNC, but they don't. Plenty of threads on 48's forums about the lack of 5G on Pixels with promises to sort it. Same with Lycamobile; its MNC is not whitelisted. My guess is the operator and Google need to chat and iron it out in order to be whitelisted. Funnily enough, An Post Mobile also uses 01 as its MNC even though they use a third-party ISP (hence a different APN), so should they add 5G, Pixels will work. I use a Pixel 7 and since 48 started offering 5G, I have been on a quest and have hopped and trailed GoMo, 48, An Post Mobile, Vodafone prepay, Three prepay, and Lycamobile. I'd love to trial Sky, but that 12-month contract...

Anyway, the TL;DR is, check your APN's MNC and hope it's 01, otherwise hope Sky establish a dialog with Google soon and make the cut for their PLMN. All I can tell you is that as of April this year, no new Irish carrier MNCs have been added by Google; the issue remains ongoing for 48, Tesco, and Lycamobile.

Also, I don't know about Clear Mobile's MNC, as I haven't trialed it yet, and they're only offering 4G. Virgin Media has its own MNC as well. I haven't trialed them either for the same reason.

Is the MNC 02? Also the MCC for Ireland is always 272. 234 is the UK. The APN will delete if the MCC or MNC doesn't match the SIM.

MCC is Mobile Country Code and MNC is Mobile Network Code.

The 02 MNC is or was Three's, but Three might be exclusively using 05 now. 02 could be from the O2 SIM card days and perhaps Sky have taken it over? Let us know if it's 02, because if so, phones like the Pixels that use a PLMN whitelist won't get 5G until their manufacturers add it as a profile.

Note that if you have or are willing to root, there are ways to edit the PLMN on-device but I'm personally not going down that rabbit hole on my Pixel.

I got a 3 SIM last week for testing. It came with an 083 number but the SIM itself is 8935302, the old O2 network. The PLMN in the iOS FTS app still says 272 05.

Just wondering if you have a SIM; are you sure?

If it is 25, you won't get 5G on your Pixel until it's added to the PLMN and when that happens is anyone's guess.

Currently have 2 sims on GoMo at the €9.99 rate each, so €20 a month barring any additional out of band spend.

Coverage is fine most of the time. I don't use the mobile much for anything beyond browsing/mail/messaging/Youtube. I also have access to wireless/Fibre most of the time too.

Don't travel abroad much.. Only really for work occasionally/rarely.

Got a call from sky this morning but I can't see any benefit for switching? Suggested they would have been better either undercutting the existing €15 per month operators or maybe offering discounts for existing Sky customers (I have fibre with them already)

Or am I missing something?

So are they cancelling existing signups that are waiting on esim activations? Sounds like a bit of a shambles.

I was up North for work today and it roamed on O2-UK and vodafone UK.

Gomo have a €30 out of bundle charge cap. Unlimited EU/UK roaming though is great for those who use it.

True. I preferred the sky cap because you can set it to 0 if needs be so for kids its good as they can't go over the standard 15 euro. I don't think you can make it 0 on gomo.

I've been active since yesterday morning and I have no issues with 2FA stuff for the moment anyway. Also I am pretty sure gomo only give 120GB of data for national use (unlimited in their eyes) and after that slow your data down to 5 megabyte speed. Sky are truly unlimited from my understanding and there is no cap or fair usage crap.