Extra DATA while in EU. (1 Viewer)

[Dogsense]

My main SIM is from O2 and getting extra Data from RWG SIM with 200GB £20 p/m, that 100GB can roaming in EU.
Yesterday I got Email from RWG
“Due to changes in our wholesale roaming charges, the EU roaming allowance will fall to 20GB from 1st April 2024”.
Advice please - how other Funsters getting extra Data for roaming in EU?

 

[HKF]

IQ Go. 100gb for £20.

You buy the sim for £20 for a year, then buy a bolt on of 100gb for £20 (valid for one month) whenever you need it.

Buy your sim here

IQ Go SIM Annual Subscription

The IQ Go SIM Card is designed to go in your Wifi Router in your Caravan or Mobile Home. The SIM is active all year round, and when you know you will be going away, you purchase a one month data bolt-on, to let you have super-fast 4G and 5G internet.

helloiq.co.uk

Then buy your bolt ons here

IQ Go Data Options

The IQ Go SIM Card is designed to go in your Wifi Router in your Caravan or Mobile Home. The SIM is active all year round, and when you know you will be going away, you purchase a one month data bolt-on, to let you have super-fast 4G and 5G internet.

helloiq.co.uk

 

[Manic]

A lot of threads on this subject, Popit comes up or local sims.

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[Dogsense]

IQ Go. 100gb for £20.

You buy the sim for £20 for a year, then buy a bolt on of 100gb for £20 (valid for one month) whenever you need it.

Buy your sim here

IQ Go SIM Annual Subscription

The IQ Go SIM Card is designed to go in your Wifi Router in your Caravan or Mobile Home. The SIM is active all year round, and when you know you will be going away, you purchase a one month data bolt-on, to let you have super-fast 4G and 5G internet.

helloiq.co.uk

Then buy your bolt ons here

IQ Go Data Options

The IQ Go SIM Card is designed to go in your Wifi Router in your Caravan or Mobile Home. The SIM is active all year round, and when you know you will be going away, you purchase a one month data bolt-on, to let you have super-fast 4G and 5G internet.

helloiq.co.uk

Can you Roaming the all 100GB in EU?

 

[Manic]

With Popit

Can you Roaming the all 100GB in EU?

you can but you have to use so much in UK first, I believe it’s unclear how much you have to use.
I’m going to get a French sim next time due to RWG’s policy change.

 

[WESTY66]

Funny how when the Europeans come over here, they’re not restricted

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[Carpmart]

Funny how when the Europeans come over here, they’re not restricted

Neither are you in EU if you go for the right service

 

[Solwaybuggier]

Can you Roaming the all 100GB in EU?

Yes, with IQGo.

 

[Orion]

I’m going to get a French sim next time due to RWG’s policy change.

Same here, It’s the first job after arriving. Currently using a Spanish Orange €15 100gb data SIM after the RWG 100gb ran out - I’ve already cancelled it for next month.

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[Manic]

Yes, with IQGo.

From the WhatsApp chat I had with them a couple of days ago IQgo is ok if you don’t want to use it for more than 90 days a year.

 

[Solwaybuggier]

I must admit I thought it was 90 days consecutively (which is as much as most of us can roam in the EU under Schengen.). Their website says:
We do however state we can't permit more than 3 months in a row EU usage without use in the UK breaking it up.

 

[Speve]

I have a Spanish Tiekom 400gb sims for around €43 which allows 200 GB roaming if required I pay through my Bank account and can freeze sim when not required. Give Camino a call

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[WESTY66]

Neither are you in EU if you go for the right service

I’m still grafting for a living, I haven’t got time or money to be abroad

 

[HKF]

Can you Roaming the all 100GB in EU?

Yes, you can. I've used it right up to the max in France, Spain and Germany Here's the text for you;

"Data covers UK and EU​

We do not have a "Fair use policy" when abroad which is pretty unique. If you order 100GB, you get 100GB in UK or EU. We do however state we can't permit more than 3 months in a row EU usage without use in the UK breaking it up. "

From https://helloiq.co.uk/collections/iq-go

 

[The Boofles]

I’m about to sack RWG!
They were brilliant at first for our extensive EU travels starting in April 2023 but then they dropped 100GB of roaming off their 200GB EU inclusive bundle and then since November 2023, I’ve had nothing but connectivity issues. My device tells me that I’m still under the 100GB limit but RWG tell me I’ve used all of my 100GB data allowance?
There’s no way to verify this supposed usage independently

If I were you I would contact your existing mobile data provider and ask what they can do for you. I’m with EE and they’ve just given me 125GB uncapped EU roaming per month for the same price as RWG’s 100GB.

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[Carpmart]

I’m about to sack RWG!
They were brilliant at first for our extensive EU travels starting in April 2023 but then they dropped 100GB of roaming off their 200GB EU inclusive bundle and then since November 2023, I’ve had nothing but connectivity issues. My device tells me that I’m still under the 100GB limit but RWG tell me I’ve used all of my 100GB data allowance?
There’s no way to verify this supposed usage independently

If I were you I would contact your existing mobile data provider and ask what they can do for you. I’m with EE and they’ve just given me 125GB uncapped EU roaming per month for the same price as RWG’s 100GB.

As I explain regularly, people need to focus on getting mobile data tariffs and not have high expectations of mobile phone tariff bundles delivering a decent service. As an in roamer (from a third country) on an EU partners network, your traffic will be shaped, algorithm controlled and your priority will be low… post Brexit it’s not great!

Tiekom is still about the best bet for a reliable and quality service.

 

[Orion]

I’m about to sack RWG!

Join the club!

I’ve already cancelled my subscription from the end of the month. Been using a 100gb Spanish Orange SIM purchased for €15 in Cadiz which is working very well in Spain and Portugal. I’ve got a 15gb UK Lebara SIM (99p pcm for six months, no contract) in slot 2 on the Teltonika as a backup, but will from now on just buy a best deal local high data time limited SIM from a supermarket or phone shop when travelling abroad and bung it in slot 1.

 

[GeeCee]

Getting a foreign SIM is great unless you want to stream British TV, SKY sports or TNT (formerly BT) sports. Using a VPN can help but the TV companies are always looking for ways to block VPN traffic from outside the UK. Using a UK SIM like Popit or one of the others mentioned does not suffer this problem.

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[Orion]

Getting a foreign SIM is great unless you want to stream British TV, SKY sports or TNT (formerly BT) sports. Using a VPN can help but the TV companies are always looking for ways to block VPN traffic from outside the UK. Using a UK SIM like Popit or one of the others mentioned does not suffer this problem.

Not as yet noticed any issues using NordVPN with foreign SIMs for any U.K. channels - or KODI for that matter.

 

[Carpmart]

Getting a foreign SIM is great unless you want to stream British TV, SKY sports or TNT (formerly BT) sports. Using a VPN can help but the TV companies are always looking for ways to block VPN traffic from outside the UK. Using a UK SIM like Popit or one of the others mentioned does not suffer this problem.

I suggest you try a different VPN if you’re having issues. Never had the problems you suggest. A VPN by the very nature of it, masks the traffic, so how on earth can the content providers identify your UK (via VPN) traffic as anything other than UK traffic.

 

[jongood]

Funny how when the Europeans come over here, they’re not restricted

They do actually - Year before last I bought a Vodafone.ES sim and the whole data allowance was only available in Spain and Romania, the other countries (EU and UK) had a lower roaming allowance. I know Orange.ES and Movistar are similar.

Not sure whats going to happen now as I understand Vodafone have "sold" their Spanish and Italian networks.

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[carolyn]

We picked up a 100gb Lebara sim in Beni indoor market yesterday for €15 . My 25 GB from O2 would have been plenty but it seems there are essential football matches coming up over the next month and I don’t want to waste my data on that rubbish!

Works great in his dual sim phone.

We can now download some good films and some gorey scandi stuff as well!

It’s certainly very easy and cheap in Spain.

 

[CAB96]

I suggest you try a different VPN if you’re having issues. Never had the problems you suggest. A VPN by the very nature of it, masks the traffic, so how on earth can the content providers identify your UK (via VPN) traffic as anything other than UK traffic.

They can't identify it as non-UK traffic.

But presumably, if they see many connections from the same IP address with traffic that doesn't look like the typical household they have a reasonable chance of getting it correct in identifying it as a VPN provider.

 

[Carpmart]

They can't identify it as non-UK traffic.

But presumably, if they see many connections from the same IP address with traffic that doesn't look like the typical household they have a reasonable chance of getting it correct in identifying it as a VPN provider.

Yeah but there are so many different UK locations you can choose with a decent VPN provider…. The VPN providers play the game of mixing it all up too, it’s in their interest to keep customers happy after all!

Also I’m guessing that fibre interconnects present massive amounts of internet traffic, can’t see how they can filter.

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[Neil S]

With Popit

you can but you have to use so much in UK first, I believe it’s unclear how much you have to use.
I’m going to get a French sim next time due to RWG’s policy change.

I used less than 0.5gb and a couple of calls and texts over 6 days in the UK with Popit and then straight over to Spain for 3 months
Worked flawlessly for the 12 weeks we were away and used most of my 100gb up each month watching evening live UK TV
The missus likes her soaps

 

[jongood]

I used less than 0.5gb and a couple of calls and texts over 6 days in the UK with Popit and then straight over to Spain for 3 months
Worked flawlessly for the 12 weeks we were away and used most of my 100gb up each month watching evening live UK TV
The missus likes her soaps

I do wonder how good the networks are at enforcing the limitations? I 've exceeded the days and the comparable amounts several times and yet to have a problem with O2, Lebara and Poppit. The only notifications I've had were from O2 on the total amount of data/month.

 

[Carpmart]

I do wonder how good the networks are at enforcing the limitations? I 've exceeded the days and the comparable amounts several times and yet to have a problem with O2, Lebara and Poppit. The only notifications I've had were from O2 on the total amount of data/month.

Usage data is often batch updates and sometimes days after the usage occurred, it’s therefore quite hard for the subscribers home network to keep up-to-date with precise usage, hence the overrun is common.

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[GeeCee]

I suggest you try a different VPN if you’re having issues. Never had the problems you suggest. A VPN by the very nature of it, masks the traffic, so how on earth can the content providers identify your UK (via VPN) traffic as anything other than UK traffic.

I've tried 2 different VPNs, TotalAV, and SurfSHark but I couldn't watch the football on what was then BT Sport. I think it came up with a message saying something like, "looks like you are using a VPN, we cannot gurantee you are a genuine UK based user". I think this is because companies like the BBC and BT get to know the addresses of the UK based VPN routers and blacklist them.
Also on a different but related note, if I try to log into my National Lottery account while using my UK mobile phone hot spot while abroad I get a message saying "looks like you are outside the UK", so something somewhere is telling them I'm abroad.

 

[lou020]

Just scrapped my RWG sim after reading they’re reducing their 100gb to 20gb when roaming. RWG used to be pretty good too, but didn’t work in quite a few countries last November. Said they were having issues in the same countries. Customer service was crap too. Wasted £40, never offered a refund even though I couldn’t use RWG services. Ordered an IQ sim, seems a decent deal.

 

[Joethejoiner]

I suggest you try a different VPN if you’re having issues. Never had the problems you suggest. A VPN by the very nature of it, masks the traffic, so how on earth can the content providers identify your UK (via VPN) traffic as anything other than UK traffic.

Unfortunately, in my experience, they do

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