IQ Go have introduced a fair useage policy limiting eu data

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Went to top up my IQ Go sim today with 100 gb of data for £20.00 to discover as of 20th September (yesterday) they have changed the conditions to a fair useage policy. 100gb in uk and only 25gb in Europe. Up until today I had had no notification of this. Am I doing something wrong or have any of you come across this. I find this a little frustrating as they were keen enough to take my annual subscription a few weeks ago.
Looks like I shall be buying a local data sim.
 
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interbear said:
As I read it, ID’s current promotion removes the roaming cap for ALL customers, including new. The 30GB cap is still referenced in each plan as that’s their standard terms and when the promotion is over the cap will be reintroduced. No date for that yet.

One of us will be right :giggle:
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Hopefully it will be you😊
 
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IQ refunded my IQ Go without any fuss. Thankfully I managed a euro trip in it's final month.

Anybody that tours UK as much as Europe I've just signed up for a Vodafone (Roxi) contract free SIM. £12 for 75gb (normally 25gb) but includes unlimited Social Media / Music Streaming & video streaming (only one missing was iplayer). Will see how Vodafone works out in the sticks but fair deal.

Will see what's what for roaming when we venture across the channel next spring.
 
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379inca said:
Went to top up my IQ Go sim today with 100 gb of data for £20.00 to discover as of 20th September (yesterday) they have changed the conditions to a fair useage policy. 100gb in uk and only 25gb in Europe. Up until today I had had no notification of this. Am I doing something wrong or have any of you come across this. I find this a little frustrating as they were keen enough to take my annual subscription a few weeks ago.
Looks like I shall be buying a local data sim.
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I use Digi Spain when travelling in Europe. €20 for unlimited data in Spain which drops to 40Gb outside Spain under the EU fair use policy.

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We’re on Tiekom a Spanish sim, 46 Euro a month 400 gb in Spain 200 gb rest or EU and UK 4 Euros a month to park it. Using Express vpn bbc, itv,
 
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RWG have a new offer if you want a UK SIM, and it's cheaper than the current IQ price.

Phone SIM with unlimited UK data on 3 and 200GB EU data for £60pm.

Unlimited mins, SMS & Unlimited UK Data plus 200GB EU data £60/month

Our £60 SIM gives you a combination of unlimited mins, unlimited SMS & unlimited UK data plus 200GB EU roaming data per month. This will renew each month until cancelled. EU Roaming is capped at 200GB per month. Not for commercial use.
www.rwgmobile.wales
 
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CAB96 said:
RWG have a new offer if you want a UK SIM, and it's cheaper than the current IQ price.

Phone SIM with unlimited UK data on 3 and 200GB EU data for £60pm.

Unlimited mins, SMS & Unlimited UK Data plus 200GB EU data £60/month

Our £60 SIM gives you a combination of unlimited mins, unlimited SMS & unlimited UK data plus 200GB EU roaming data per month. This will renew each month until cancelled. EU Roaming is capped at 200GB per month. Not for commercial use.
www.rwgmobile.wales
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clonkel said:
Tesco Black Friday. Unlimited data 24 month contract no roaming charges until 2026 £17.50 pm fixed price, no increases

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Decent deal that but (1) Do Tesco Mobile SIMs work in a MiFi / mobile router (we use a Netgear M2) and (2) How is the O2 coverage experience for people in the UK? Not worried about 5G as the Netgear router is 4G only, so I’m more interested in UK 4G coverage for camping. Researching all of this now and it still seems to me that EE and their MVNOs are the best for that type of coverage.

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Decent deal that but (1) Do Tesco Mobile SIMs work in a MiFi / mobile router (we use a Netgear M2) and (2) How is the O2 coverage experience for people in the UK? Not worried about 5G as the Netgear router is 4G only, so I’m more interested in UK 4G coverage for camping. Researching all of this now and it still seems to me that EE and their MVNOs are the best for that type of coverage.
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O2 along with Voda have the lowest of the 4/5g frequency allocations.

EE and Three have the most. Take that as you will. Three and Vodafone are merging in theory in future, and when done will have the most of all of them if it comes off. Key point though, Three have a lot more "lower" frequencies available to them as they upgrade, so in the long-game, Three/Voda will probably be best.

O2 are great however if you near one of their 5g enabled towers from experience as any of them are really, but the key point is we've seen O2 in a loaction where none of the other networks have 5g, so it's really a case of where you are going and checking Cellmapper.

I've said on here I take 2 sims (EE and Three) to most campsites we visit. This year I have not had to insert the EE myself as unlike 2023 the coverage has been enough for TV streaming everywhere we've been.

The slightly complexity is your mifi though, if it's a category 4 device, Three probably isn't for you. The reason being all the upgrades above being mentioned need a minimum of a cat 6 and sometimes a cat 20 to actually work. Band 28 (the really long range one) is rarely available on a cat4 device, only some 2024 models from some mifi devices have this, in fact only one I've seen has it). So check your device as sometimes your problem may be not the network (band 28 is the furthest reach band, using frequncies from analogue tv turn off) if you don't have a device capable of band 28 (and it's notable Vodafone, Three and I think O2 ALL use this).

EE have the most 4g only coverage on band 3, which makes them the best if you have a older cat4 router. However band 3 is also not the best for rural signal (it's 1800mhz).
 
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starquake said:
O2 along with Voda have the lowest of the 4/5g frequency allocations.

EE and Three have the most. Take that as you will. Three and Vodafone are merging in theory in future, and when done will have the most of all of them if it comes off. Key point though, Three have a lot more "lower" frequencies available to them as they upgrade, so in the long-game, Three/Voda will probably be best.

O2 are great however if you near one of their 5g enabled towers from experience as any of them are really, but the key point is we've seen O2 in a loaction where none of the other networks have 5g, so it's really a case of where you are going and checking Cellmapper.

I've said on here I take 2 sims (EE and Three) to most campsites we visit. This year I have not had to insert the EE myself as unlike 2023 the coverage has been enough for TV streaming everywhere we've been.

The slightly complexity is your mifi though, if it's a category 4 device, Three probably isn't for you. The reason being all the upgrades above being mentioned need a minimum of a cat 6 and sometimes a cat 20 to actually work. Band 28 (the really long range one) is rarely available on a cat4 device, only some 2024 models from some mifi devices have this, in fact only one I've seen has it). So check your device as sometimes your problem may be not the network (band 28 is the furthest reach band, using frequncies from analogue tv turn off) if you don't have a device capable of band 28 (and it's notable Vodafone, Three and I think O2 ALL use this).

EE have the most 4g only coverage on band 3, which makes them the best if you have a older cat4 router. However band 3 is also not the best for rural signal (it's 1800mhz).
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Thanks. Useful info.

The Netgear M2 is a CAT 20 mobile router so no issues there, it’s very good.

I agree with your strategy of taking 2 separate SIMs on different networks. In my mobile I use a 3 SIM with 100GB data / month and can use it as a personal hotspot. Only 12GB EU roaming though, after which it’s £2 per day. For the Netgear M2 I am leaning toward an EE MVNO such as 1p mobile for data usage but again, EU roaming is limited to 14GB with them after which their 1p per MB kicks in (£10 per GB which seems expensive to me).

Other consideration is to switch the mobile phone to 1p Mobile on EE when the 3 contract expires and get a ID Mobile SIM for the Netgear on 3, as their plans provide 30 GB EU roaming.
 
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interbear said:
Thanks. Useful info.

The Netgear M2 is a CAT 20 mobile router so no issues there, it’s very good.

Other consideration is to switch the mobile phone to 1p Mobile on EE when the 3 contract expires and get a ID Mobile SIM for the Netgear on 3, as their plans provide 30 GB EU roaming.
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For Roaming, we use our (contract) Three sim with 12Gb roaming to get us to a E.Leclerk, and buy a 20 euro French sim (20 euro prepay gets you about 400Gb, which is better than any roaming deal). If going into Spain, look at Digi which is similar money. Free in France is another alternative that on prepay is betetr value than any UK deal.

Basically I wouldn't artifically limit myself to (UK) based sim cards for an EU trip. We only need data and not voice though! Ease of travel (ie, installing a sim before travel) does have a downside in it costs you more.

There are very good UK (only) sim deals on amazon right now, you can get a 500Gb sim (with 500Gb every month) on Three, UK only for buttons, similar for EE, due to Black Friday. The downside being they don't roam at all.
 
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starquake said:
For Roaming, we use our (contract) Three sim with 12Gb roaming to get us to a E.Leclerk, and buy a 20 euro French sim (20 euro prepay gets you about 400Gb, which is better than any roaming deal). If going into Spain, look at Digi which is similar money. Free in France is another alternative that on prepay is betetr value than any UK deal.

Basically I wouldn't artifically limit myself to (UK) based sim cards for an EU trip. We only need data and not voice though! Ease of travel (ie, installing a sim before travel) does have a downside in it costs you more.

There are very good UK (only) sim deals on amazon right now, you can get a 500Gb sim (with 500Gb every month) on Three, UK only for buttons, similar for EE, due to Black Friday. The downside being they don't roam at all.
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I’m coming to the same conclusion given the scarcity of UK SIMs that offer a decent amount of EU roaming. France is our most regular EU country to visit as Mrs interbear hails from there, so we visit her family. I reckon we’ll do as you suggest and for now, concentrate on picking up a good Black Friday deal for UK data.

Do the SIMs bought in France work fine in a Mifi / mobile router? Any specific ones to recommend or avoid in your experience?

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I have an EE sim and also a Tesco sim both unlimited contracts, in the UK I mostly use the EE sim in a CAT12 router and use the Tesco sim in Huawei CAT6 mifi as backup if i'm in an area with no EE signal, in Europe the Tesco sim was brilliant, always fast enough to stream tv in hd and the one occasion it couldn't get a good connection, manually searching for a different network fixed the issue. Today in Dorset I have 166 down on the EE sim and 7 down with the Tesco sim however 7 down is sufficient to stream tv. Try the Tesco sim, you get two weeks to take it back if it won't work in your device, or if your budget allows get a cheap Huawei CAT6 or CAT4 mifi and keep the Tesco sim in that for backup and European roaming.
 
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interbear said:
I’m coming to the same conclusion given the scarcity of UK SIMs that offer a decent amount of EU roaming. France is our most regular EU country to visit as Mrs interbear hails from there, so we visit her family. I reckon we’ll do as you suggest and for now, concentrate on picking up a good Black Friday deal for UK data.

Do the SIMs bought in France work fine in a Mifi / mobile router? Any specific ones to recommend or avoid in your experience?
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Well I think Manic on here can speak more recently on it, but he mentioned on another Thread he was using a cheap Reglo one from E.Leclerk only a month or two ago in his ZTE 5g (not 5 ghz, actual 5g) mifi and posted a speedtest of over 500Mbit in one of the threads on here, so it was speedy too! I have the same mifi device. The Reglo ones seem cheapest for the data volume, and also have pretty good coverage.

If you have family in France it may be worth having a Free(Free.fr is the network) sim handy too (these can be a contract). A friend of ours who lives there uses that for his Mifi as it's quite cheap per month (under 15 euro).
 
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As starquake said I’ve recently used a Reglo (E Leclerc) sim in my ZTE mifi and was really pleased with it, you can get different amounts of data and also this goes up if you do a auto renew payment setup.
When I bought mine I used my driving license and an address of a nearby Aire.
But do make sure when you no longer need the sim to cancel the number , don’t just stop at auto renew as I did because I did this and then bought another sim 4 months later (thinking the other one was dead) when I logged in to my account I didn’t notice it was the original account and got charged for missing months☹️
 
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interbear Just our experience in the UK so far. We have always had a signal with O2 and the sim works fine in our mifi (ZTE). I signed up yesterday for the deal as it works for us. Maybe I will look at another PAYG sim as well as the Tesco contract but only when we find that we don't get a signal. Thus far no issues.

Tesco rep said they have extended the no roaming charge 3 times already. I'm hopeful they will do it again in 2026 but no issues if not as we will continue to use it in the UK.
 
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For UK data in the Netgear M2 mobile router I decided to go with one of the Black Friday deals on Scancom pre-loaded / pre-paid SIMs. £189.99 for Unlimited Data on EE up to 8th June 2026. So, 18 months unlimited data, works out at around £10.50 per month. I think that's reasonable for what is generally regarded as the best network for 4G data which is what the Netgear supports. Still have a 3 SIM in my mobile phone as an alternative for personal hotspot if needed. If I get on well with EE I may switch the phone over when the 3 contract expires in March. I considered doing it now but don't want to hand 3 a £51 early termination fee.

For EU roaming I will likely buy local SIMs as suggested.

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interbear said:
Decent deal that but (1) Do Tesco Mobile SIMs work in a MiFi / mobile router (we use a Netgear M2) and (2) How is the O2 coverage experience for people in the UK? Not worried about 5G as the Netgear router is 4G only, so I’m more interested in UK 4G coverage for camping. Researching all of this now and it still seems to me that EE and their MVNOs are the best for that type of coverage.
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I have Tesco sim in my MiFi and although Tesco say they can’t be used in router and claim they can detect I have been using it for almost 16 months in motorhome, including the last month in Spain and Portugal, streaming all UK TV and Sports and they haven’t blocked me, or tethered speeds as other suggested.
 
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starquake said:
There are very good UK (only) sim deals on amazon right now, you can get a 500Gb sim (with 500Gb every month) on Three, UK only for buttons, similar for EE, due to Black Friday. The downside being they don't roam at all.
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These are described as being for business use only, is it possible they will terminate them if they suspect they are being used by private individuals ?
 
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Figaro said:
These are described as being for business use only, is it possible they will terminate them if they suspect they are being used by private individuals ?
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Are we not all self-employed? I mean I genuinely do run a Ltd company, but in seriousness sole traders are allowed at Costco for same reason, as they use personal bank accounts "normally" and just accountantancy is done by their self assement return. But in effect sole trading and partnerships are allowed by UK law and use personal bank accounts (in many cases), and do not require you to be a Ltd to be a business. So in effect there is no way other than you telling them you are not a business the network could find out. I would suggest you don't tell them or tell them you are a sole trader on ebay, which many of us part time at anyhow. A white lie like this would never really be an issue in reality.

In other words I wouldn't worry at all about these terms as they are not in reality actually enforceable given they are not restricting it to Ltd companies, as self-employed included sole traders. I have many of my customers contracting direct with scancom, not a single one has ever been terminated, and I know of at least 40 people with contracts via them. I personally have at present 8 sims with them, and have my retired father in law with 2 sims today ;)

There is no difference in how calls/data usage that they could track (90% of all data is encrypted anyhow these days) from the cell end either. If you worry about that get a VPN, which I'd encourage anyhow!.

One bonus from testing however is business sims are proritised "higher" by the network than a normal retail contract, so ... you'll even have priority on the cell towers in the case of Three too if you put 2 sims side by side.

Edit to add, if you really worried start a Ltd company, but it's a bit overkill for this :). It's also not that expensive just is a bit of form filling every year if you do the acountancy/returns yourself. I wouldn't reccomend this in seriousness given none of my customers other than myself have a sim this way. I also have no relation to the company beyond being a very happy customer since 2019 ish. I get more sims every year from them as I havn't been able to find a better supplier in uk (they have only started selling on amazon relatively recently as in about 2022).
 
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These are described as being for business use only, is it possible they will terminate them if they suspect they are being used by private individuals ?
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Having just bought one via Amazon I sincerely hope not! I’ve read so many positive reviews of individuals using these SIM that I am assuming it’ll be fine. Also I will use it for remote working as well as personal use.
 
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starquake said:
I get more sims every year from them as I havn't been able to find a better supplier in uk
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From what you are saying, do you buy another Scancom physical SIM package when required?
Or is it possible to add data to an existing SIM card? Or is that more expensive?
Thanks.

Edit: Are there any Scancom SIMs that allow EU roaming?
 
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treblid said:
From what you are saying, do you buy another Scancom physical SIM package when required?
Or is it possible to add data to an existing SIM card? Or is that more expensive?
Thanks.

Edit: Are there any Scancom SIMs that allow EU roaming?
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Yes I buy new sims at end of term of a previous sim. When you buy a sim expiring say Feb 2025 (I have one doing that!) they tell you the date it drops dead on initial purchase invoice. I note that down and make sure to buy a new sim prior to that date to swap in (if it's same network it uses same APN so it's a literal straight swap for data use). Althought if you phone them they can activate (or reactivate) a previous sim deal purchased from them it's usually not as good a deal as what they make avaialble on Amazon for a retail customer. I have only done that when a sim is on a device needing a Cherry picker rental to swap given the Cherry picker rental would cost more than the extra costs per month to have a remote activiation done. As many of my sims tend to expire around Black Friday time historically this is the time of year to pick up deals;

I should also say if you end up buying lots of them from them they will offer direct deals better than Amazon, but given thats not availabel to everyone it's something not worth mentioning. My business buys at present around 20 sims a year and we actually now have a direct account manager with them.

They offer EU sims on their actual website, but in my opinion not a good deal. Very expensive per month.
 
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So my pre-loaded EE SIM from Scancom (ordered via their Amazon store) arrived yesterday. SIM installed in the Netgear Nighthawk M2 mobile router / MiFi device and all working perfectly. No issues. At least that’s my UK data sorted for campervan trips until mid 2026. I’ll deal with EU roaming when the next trip over the channel happens.
 
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Abacist said:
This is such a pain! I shall have to revert to buying a local data sim for the HUAWEI and get rid of THREE for my IPhone and buy a Tesco Sim.

If you have Satellite then it’s best to use it as far south as you can before starting to stream! I’m on my second 100Gb data pack from IQ!
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I use Digi in Spain

Unlimited Data for €20 and it becomes 40Gb use once you leave Spain.

You can top it up online, easy.

Believe they have just increased the out of Spain EU wide Data limit.

They have just entered the Portugal market and have introductory offerings of 200Gb for €9 for a limited time
 
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We were in Brighton this weekend and I could only get around 1 - 3mb on my Tesco/O2 sim as the CAMH club is in a deep bowl. I popped to the EE store and got a £10 deal for 20GB and it worked well for the few days we needed it at around 6 to 7mb. This has prompted me to look at the above deal. I can't really use Three as we have no signal at all from them where we live or the surrounding area as I used to be with them. It looks like people have had a good experience buying on Amazon from Scancom. My only issue is the guy at the EE store said that PAYG is that the speed is capped at 25mb. Would that be the same with this sim from Amazon? (The advert says business grade but I do not know what that means)

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We seem to have drifted a long way from IQ Go.

Has anyone heard from IQ Go lately, or done any business with them? After announcing the £70 sim they said stand by for further announcements/deals, but it all seems to have gone quiet. :unsure:
 
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