Sky Mobile, coming to Ireland

@N64 cheers, you're one of the lucky ones so!

Might be worth contacting them. I ordered last Wednesday and my SIM arrived today.

That's my understanding of it.

Just confirmed that I still have the 2FA issue (and therefore it's not fixed!). Couldn't get a SMS for a MasterCard payment on my main ported number with Sky.

Luckily I had another few sims hanging around.

Replaced 2FA setting for card with another number, and SMS was received straight away to that (Vodafone) number.

I concur, anytime I've had issues that were clearly being ignored, comreg is best route after 10 days.

Think I'll be taking that Complaints route cheers. Looks like I have to wait 10 working days, and the day reported is day 1. So I'll be looking for a complaint ref from them this Friday if issue still exists.

@Purplej yep already emailed their official complaints email earlier outlining the 2FA and VoLTE/WiFi calling issues, and asking for an official complaint to be logged.

What phone do you have, again? Have you been able to test your Sky SIM in another phone while awaiting a 2FA text?

The reason why I ask is because the problem doesn't exist for everybody and I had my own issues with RCS that weren't necessarily Sky's fault, but rather because of my phone locking in on my temporary 089 number due to not waiting until it was ported before using it, and this went on even after the port. I had to factory reset to resolve the issue but not before I tried my SIM in another phone to see if that worked, and it did, without issue.

how is everyone finding the call quality on normal phone calls? (Not WhatsApp)

I've a OnePlus 12 so decent enough. I'll see how things settle down and when I'm out and about but not quite sure why WiFi calling is gone as an option, maybe they don't support the brand here as it's not on the support list for Sky Ireland but it's at software level anyway.

Tried on my wife's S22 and it's not appearing on hers either. Must be at carrier level it's enable/disabled by default?

Anyone else seeing it on a phone not provided by Sky?

I got 670 down, 151 up a short while ago when out. Don't think I ever got that when in the city with Eir before.

Re WiFi calling, I had time to kill before a meeting earlier this evening so called support and when they got back to me they said there was a wider issue with this for some customers and it's being investigated. I'm not even getting the VoLTE option in the Sim settings which they asked if it was switched on

I was messaging sky on Whatsapp regarding no Wi-Fi calling or volte, and eventually I got this response

Thank you for the patience, could you try following the below steps to activate VOLTE on your 5G network phone for Huawei.

Settings > About Phone > Build Number > Press Multiple Times] [Developer Options > Enable Wireless Debugging or USB Debugging] [Open Shizuku > Pair with Honor 90 Lite] Open Pixel IMS and in the settings, enable VoLTE and VoWifi [Open Pixel > Sim Config > Enable VoLTE and Enable VoWiFi]

This gave me the options for Wi-Fi calling but not fully sure it's working as it states ims is unregistered, and there is no vo wifi symbol. When I made a call earlier I was in poor wifi area and call was breaking up, so it was like a wifi call.

I have a Samsung S21 which is with Vodafone. I tried my son's 3 sim in it yesterday and it worked so I'm guessing it's unlocked. However when I look at the available network it only has Vodafone, 3Ireland (twice) and Meteor. Is there any reason why it wouldn't be picking up Eir or Sky?

I don't want to switch until I know it will work with Sky.

Excellent. Thanks!

I wasn't either but once I knew it worked in my old, spare phone, I figured I might as well just get it done, because resetting my network settings did jack **** as well. It's a pain because I have to re-connect my watch afterward. But thankfully no issues in terms of setting up my banking and GPay again - no 24-hour delay or the like.

You should definitely try your SIM in another phone at least.

Yip, pretty sure that's the case and I mentioned I had a brief call with them yesterday and they came back to say they're aware of it. I don't get the option on the Sky SIM on either of my phones in which I previously could use it with a different provider.

Very impressed so far.

I got a call from them yesterday as I had registered on the website when it came out. I had my doubts at first because of reading some of the issues on here but I figured I'd give it a go so signed up. The SIM arrived today, so only a little over 24 hours since taking the call!

I put the SIM in, activated it, and my number ported over within less than 5 minutes. I'm using an iPhone 13 so I popped in the APN settings and everything looks to be working. VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling are good and I had no iMessage activation issues. One thing I did do was to go into Settings > Mobile Service > (selected Sky SIM as I have two SIMs) > My Number, and added my number in there in international format. If anyone's having iMessage activation issues, maybe this might help kick it forward?

Speeds are the same as Vodafone, although the pings are higher as was mentioned. That shouldn't be too big a deal for me though. We'll see how the 2FA SMS works, fingers crossed on that one.

sounds like a good deal alright , im sticking with 3 Ireland for 20 euro you get all you can eat data and 5G

How is everyone finding the call quality? And if anybody has a Vodafone sim, a sky vs vodafone speed test ran after one another would show if we are getting the same speed.

I'm not in the best area, but the Speedtest.net results with my Vodafone SIM are 146 down and 2.98 up with 28ms ping. Sky in the same location got 115 down and 7.99 up with 59ms ping.