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Best cheap e-sim for backup phone data?

for a 2nd sim I’ve been happy with Lyca, now it works on EE.

I’ve had O2 100GB but never need that much data and so decided two cheap sims was better than one big allowance.

I need to stick with the main networks to support my Apple watch so have O2 as my primary sim and Lycamobile on EE as my backup.
iPhones will auto swap to the 2nd sim if signal is poor for data.

both are E-Sims
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Oh man I can’t resist, what would 320Kbps high quality use non stop for a month be? 😂
For a worst-case 31 day month, it would be 107.1GB (1000^3) or 99.8GiB (1024^3)

You might just squeeze in with a 100G SIM if they use the latter definition of 1G :-)
 
For a worst-case 31 day month, it would be 107.1GB (1000^3) or 99.8GiB (1024^3)

You might just squeeze in with a 100G SIM if they use the latter definition of 1G :)
That’s an awful lot more than I suspected, I thought you’d just times the amount for 128Kbps by 3 but jebus lol

Edit: Well, a bit less because 320Kbps not 384.
 
Ah okay, it won't do then. Does that make Three the only UK network to support 3 way calling? EE doesnt and last time I checked, O2 don't either.
Voda say they support it too on their PayM plans, whether or not that's true I don't know.
 
Truthfully it seems to vary, I did one speedtest and got 10Mb/s which is plenty for me/backup, (I do live in a basement flat though, haven't been out to test speed).

Once came out in the Netherlands, then came out at London OVH, haven't used/tested much tbh.

Just tested now and it's breaking out in London, which tbh considering Voda likes to route me through Scotland for some unknown reason, that's pretty good! lol
I was just wondering if, like others, they route you out of the UK to a different country then back onto the web.

Does: https://www.maxmind.com/en/locate-my-ip-address imply you have a UK ip?
 
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That’s an awful lot more than I suspected, I thought you’d just times the amount for 128Kbps by 3 but jebus lol

Edit: Well, a bit less because 320Kbps not 384.
The original calculation was for 1 hour a day; the new request was for continuous playing. So you need to multiply by 24 as well.
 
Ah okay, it won't do then. Does that make Three the only UK network to support 3 way calling? EE doesnt and last time I checked, O2 don't either.
Three don't offer Visual Voicemail which is a bit of a pain. Inclined to get Voda PayM sim that supports Visual Voicemail and 3way calling, given my fiasco with their notorious customer service though I think I'll suck up and accept life without lol.
 
The original calculation was for 1 hour a day; the new request was for continuous playing. So you need to multiply by 24 as well.
Ah! Mybad.
 
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