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I need three months data (via mifi for internet) and two phones touring the UK and Continent this summer.

Tesco currently offers 100Gb data for GBP30 per month. The fair use policy, if applicable, would only, maybe, kick in after two months.

Three of these cards would cover all my voice and data needs this summer.

Is this too good to be true?
 
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I have 3 as my supplier, 100gb for £12, they capped me at 12gb every month when abroad.
 
tsrwright said:
I need three months data (via mifi for internet) and two phones touring the UK and Continent this summer.

Tesco currently offers 100Gb data for GBP30 per month. The fair use policy, if applicable, would only, maybe, kick in after two months.

Three of these cards would cover all my voice and data needs this summer.

Is this too good to be true?
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So does this mean you are spending £90 a month?
 
What about this , unlimited everything
£15 a month.
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I’m pretty sure Tesco Mobile contracts don’t cap data use while roaming like most providers, so not limited to 12gb/month. The fair use policy does specify 2 months max, but then if they notify you you’re in breach of it you have a further 2 weeks to reduce usage before they can start to impose (hefty) surcharges.

BUT Having looked at their PAYG T&C I can’t see any reference to “free roaming“, which is splashed all over their contract pages, and there are a list of roaming charges, which include 10p/mb for data in Europe. So I do wonder whether you’d get included roaming at all on PAYG, but I may have missed something.

When I renewed contract recently I did have the option to go onto a 1 month contract at an extra cost, but that may not be available for new customers?
 
chaser said:
So does this mean you are spending £90 a month?
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Well yes, if they were all the same, but probably smaller data allowance for the phones.

But can these cards be used in a mifi unit - did I read somewhere that a phone sim cannot?

Gee, it's getting hard, I thought I had it all sorted a few years back.
 
Maybe answering my own question, https://techwithtech.com/using-phone-sim-card-in-mobile-router/, suggests 'phone' cards can be used in a mifi or mobile router - its all a matter of the data in the plan. For example, not much point use a card with a small data plan in a router. And Chaser, If I am using maps and find my site type apps on the phone it would also need all the data I can get so £90 for a months phone and data when travelling in Europe seems to me like small money compared to the air fares getting there. I'll have a look at the Vodaphone deal so thanks.
 
As far as I can tell, a Vodaphone UK monthly Unlimited Max sim would be £47 but would be capped at 25Mb per month on the Continent although I think you can get more if you pay. I think there are plenty of sims capped at 25Mb which is what I would like to avoid.
 
We use a portable Huawei router and pop a Smarty unlimited data sim in that. We use this permanently at home and take the router with us when were in the MoHo. Works no problems but we've not been abroad with it. The router is available on Amazon, we've been using it for a few years now, no problems and no contracts!!

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£90 a month sounds like a lot of money to me. I think I'd be asking for recommendations of data Sims for the first country your visiting on mainland Europe they should work anywhere in the EU as they will still be covered by EU law. The phone ones I'd get a cheap UK one that allows a bit of data roaming and use the mifi for most data.
 
If you have a smartphone, you don't need a mifi just tether to your phone, and if you have two phones you would be able to use both.
Don't understand what you mean about mapping, we use ours with Google maps and park4night app.
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Lenny HB said:
You will be lucky to do that in remote mountain areas that's where a mifi with an external MIMO aerial comes into it's own.
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Everywhere we have been in Europe we have never been without a signal, I am on Vodafone and Julie on O2, in most villages and towns it's amazing the amount of WiFi is available.
 
The Wino said:
£90 a month sounds like a lot of money to me. I think I'd be asking for recommendations of data Sims for the first country your visiting on mainland Europe they should work anywhere in the EU as they will still be covered by EU law. The phone ones I'd get a cheap UK one that allows a bit of data roaming and use the mifi for most data.
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Problem with that is that first country may well be France - my experience is that French PAYG sims are significantly dearer than in other countries, require a French bank a/c etc. (This may well be outdated - we've got by fine with phone tethering last few years.)

Portugal has brilliant PAYG sim deals - but I have some recollection that they didn't work very well coming back up through France. This may have changed?
 
Some useful comments there - many thanks. I already have a mifi and aerial so it seems to make sense to use that for static computer access to the internet. When mobile, using phones for maps, looking up site apps etc uses up a lot of data in my experience. Google Maps just eats it. Motorhome Wifi say in a spreadsheet that Tesco enforce 12Gb fair useage but I have not myself read that into their documentation. Bit of a minefield isn't it but I suppose the answer is to just pay up for a local sim(s) if the UK ones are capped. I would have thought it would be all better by now but I suppose Brexit hasn't helped :(
 
Tesco website today:

Before you go abroad​

There are no changes to our Home From Home service due to Brexit. You can still use your data, minutes and texts in Europe as you would at home. We have no current plans to re-introduce roaming charges in European countries following the UK’s departure from the EU on 1 January 2021. If anything changes, we’ll contact all our customers to let them know.

That seems clear enough to me notwithstanding the Fair Use policy which states:

HFH Usage shall be limited to periodic travelling and to usage that follows
reasonable consumer holiday and travel patterns. It is available for customers who
are normally resident in the UK. We will monitor your HFH Usage and location over
a rolling 4 month period. Where you are found to be in one our HFH destinations
and HFH Usage exceeds 2 months during this monitoring period (in comparison to
being in the UK or elsewhere), you will have exceeded our fair usage policy. You will be
informed that you have exceeded the fair usage policy by text message and from the
receipt of this message, you will have two weeks to reduce your HFH Usage

Nothing there about 12Mb cap so I am still wondering if there is a catch somewhere that I haven't twigged?

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orridge said:
Although it is capped at 12gb a month for overseas roaming so we purchased several of the £8 a month for 12gb sims and if you link the accounts you get an additional 10% discount across all the sims.
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I use smarty in the uk but haven’t tried abroad , I only renew when needed . From what you are saying you buy more than one 12gb sim to cover your data use , I am going hit six weeks can you renew your sims whike abroad
 
mossa said:
I use smarty in the uk but haven’t tried abroad , I only renew when needed . From what you are saying you buy more than one 12gb sim to cover your data use , I am going hit six weeks can you renew your sims whike abroad
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Yes you can renew abroad. If you have multiple smarty sim cards they need to be activated whilst in the UK.
 
orridge said:
Yes you can renew abroad. If you have multiple smarty sim cards they need to be activated whilst in the UK.
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i have a hawawie router in the van and have been using a smarty sim card for a while now , I am going abroad next week and it is saying I need to change my settings but the instructions are for phones . Anyone had this problem
 
mossa said:
i have a hawawie router in the van and have been using a smarty sim card for a while now , I am going abroad next week and it is saying I need to change my settings but the instructions are for phones . Anyone had this problem
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Yes I have, I just put the sim into my phone and changed the settings as instructed
 
Winger said:
Yes I have, I just put the sim into my phone and changed the settings as instructed
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Sounds feasible, I will try that thanks

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mossa said:
i have a hawawie router in the van and have been using a smarty sim card for a while now , I am going abroad next week and it is saying I need to change my settings but the instructions are for phones . Anyone had this problem
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You can change the apn address via the huawei app just connect to the routers wifi and access the app on your phone.
 

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