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PAYG esim

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Does anyone know if there are any networks that do a PAYG esim, not too fussed on the network.

I need a second sim and my Flip4 only has esim for the second sim. If Three actually did esim this wouldn't be a problem as I would just move my main number over!
 
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Then there's truphone and ubigi

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Seems like quite a good. Do you happen to know what network they run on, their website is atrocious. I've seen mention of O2 and Vodafone when I googled it but I couldn't see anything concrete.

And I assume they don't do 5G given there's no mention of it, not that I need it!
 
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Seems like quite a good. Do you happen to know what network they run on, their website is atrocious. I've seen mention of O2 and Vodafone when I googled it but I couldn't see anything concrete.

And I assume they don't do 5G given there's no mention of it, not that I need it!

@CarlO1460 advises O2, it's a truphone reseller.
 
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Seems like quite a good. Do you happen to know what network they run on, their website is atrocious. I've seen mention of O2 and Vodafone when I googled it but I couldn't see anything concrete.

And I assume they don't do 5G given there's no mention of it, not that I need it!
O2 yes, extreme connect did not work for me. The esim wouldn't download inside their app, I asked them for help. They ignored me.

I tried to ask them to fix or just refund me. Little communication, just few days later received a refund of the £10.

Never received a reason why it never worked, and when they did finally respond, they said well I've had my refund so they've no reason to help.

Stay clear.
 
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O2 yes, extreme connect did not work for me. The esim wouldn't download inside their app, I asked them for help. They ignored me.

I tried to ask them to fix or just refund me. Little communication, just few days later received a refund of the £10.

Never received a reason why it never worked, and when they did finally respond, they said well I've had my refund so they've no reason to help.

Stay clear.
Definitely sound like a company to stay well clear of.

I've tried a esim before again on the O2 network, while calls and data worked fine, they could never fix the issue that texts never worked.

Don't know why though.
 
Fwiw, I have an EE PAYG esim. If you get a regular PAYG SIM, you can request an esim through their support using the same mechanisms they use for sending out contract esims.

It took me a couple of agents (I did it on live chat) before I got one that'd do it for me, but it is 100% possible, just need to keep trying.

I tried after reading: https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Archived-Posts/eSim-support-on-pay-as-you-go/m-p/972525

At about the same time I was looking, I also saw that eBay was flooded with Vodafone PAYG esims. But that's not the case today. No idea how you'd go around getting one of those now.
 
Definitely sound like a company to stay well clear of.

I've tried a esim before again on the O2 network, while calls and data worked fine, they could never fix the issue that texts never worked.

Don't know why though.
My O2 esim works just fine.
 
My O2 esim works just fine.
I got mine from esim.net, the one that was mentioned here - course it cost me a small fortune as my then phone wasn't esim ready so I needed a adaptor basically a sim onto which the esim profile be downloaded onto viya their app.

I raise it as a fault but for some reason it never worked, maybe it was because I was using a esim adaptor and not a esim ready phone but if that's the case why did data and calls work fine?
 
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My O2 esim works just fine.
Couple of months back I got a 1 month esim from esim.net (O2 reseller) and it worked just fine, although support had to enable roaming for me.. but on the bright side there is responsive support.
Luckily I used it abroad for the most part so the speeds were alright, not the usual slOw2 :)
 
Couple of months back I got a 1 month esim from esim.net (O2 reseller) and it worked just fine, although support had to enable roaming for me.. but on the bright side there is responsive support.
Luckily I used it abroad for the most part so the speeds were alright, not the usual slOw2 :)
That's the same one I had, I went for the unlimited data sim they offered, dunno why the sim had issues with texting but even O2 couldn't resolve it.
 
That's the same one I had, I went for the unlimited data sim they offered, dunno why the sim had issues with texting but even O2 couldn't resolve it.
Had the same one, unlimited. Sms worked just fine though.
 
O2 yes, extreme connect did not work for me. The esim wouldn't download inside their app, I asked them for help. They ignored me.

I tried to ask them to fix or just refund me. Little communication, just few days later received a refund of the £10.

Never received a reason why it never worked, and when they did finally respond, they said well I've had my refund so they've no reason to help.

Stay clear.
Looks like they have a free trial with 100mb of data that doesn't require you to add payment details, so I gave it a try and it wouldn't download the esim either. Good thing I didn't pay anything.

I've got myself a Vodafone PAYG sim and I'm going to try and get it to convert to an esim, at the minute it's saying I've already made an Esim order, but from what I've read it can take a few days of trying, and given Vodafone's systems are crap, I wasn't really expecting it to just work anyway. I'll then try and convert it to a VOXI sim.
If it doesn't work, then it's cost me nowt and I'll probably just go with esim.net
 
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Looks like they have a free trial with 100mb of data that doesn't require you to add payment details, so I gave it a try and it wouldn't download the esim either. Good thing I didn't pay anything.

I've got myself a Vodafone PAYG sim and I'm going to try and get it to convert to an esim, at the minute it's saying I've already made an Esim order, but from what I've read it can take a few days of trying, and given Vodafone's systems are crap, I wasn't really expecting it to just work anyway. I'll then try and convert it to a VOXI sim.
If it doesn't work, then it's cost me nowt and I'll probably just go with esim.net
The Vodafone thing won't work, and if it does, they'll move it back to the physical SIM it originally started on so be sure to keep it.
 
The Vodafone thing won't work, and if it does, they'll move it back to the physical SIM it originally started on so be sure to keep it.

Tbh, I'm just doing it to see if it'll work.

Hopefully Three will keep their promise this time of lauching eSIM in 2022 and then I'll be able to use a normal sim as my second.
 
Just tried the sim swap again for lolz and it went through this time.
Had the email through with the QR code through and just waiting for it to add the plan to my phone.



Took about 2 minutes, but I now have the Vodafone PAYG esim on my Flip4. Called the number and it came through, so looks like it's working... so far!

I'll keep the Vodafone sim in the fake second sim slot in my LG G7 just to keep it safe in case things go pear shaped.
 
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