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Roam on any UK network with Anywhere Sim
Everything Goes
12-06-2015
A new service that allows you to Roam on any UK network is about to be launched. It will let you receive calls on any UK network but only let's you make outgoing calls texts and data on O2. Handy for not spots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33091991
Aye Up
12-06-2015
Thats interesting, I know of a handful of B2B providers who offer a similar feature, this is the first one I have seen aimed at consumers. I think this may benefit pensioners who only use their phone for recieving calls.
Everything Goes
12-06-2015
A premium service for making calls, texts and data can be done on any network but it will cost double the price.
oilman
12-06-2015
Originally Posted by Everything Goes:
“A new service that allows you to Roam on any UK network is about to be launched. It will let you receive calls on any UK network but only let's you make outgoing calls texts and data on O2. Handy for not spots.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33091991”

£120 is far too expensive, and can only be used on O2. No good if it is an O2 notspot.

Surely all you need to do is get a pay and go sim from each of the main operators with a few pounds credit on each.
d123
12-06-2015
Originally Posted by oilman:
“£120 is far too expensive, and can only be used on O2. No good if it is an O2 notspot.

Surely all you need to do is get a pay and go sim from each of the main operators with a few pounds credit on each.”

The £120 offer is an EU roaming sim that works on all UK networks, so for a frequent traveller quite a good deal.

Quote:
“Special Pre-Launch Offer

we have decided to produce 100 annual sims on our Anywhere EU tariff prior to official launch which are available on a first come first served basis. they don't have the ability to be topped up yet*, but they do come with £120 credit and 365 days of service. calls to standard landlines & mobiles in the UK are 10 pence per minute with SMS costing 5 pence per message and data at 10 pence per MB. our pricing and a full list of countries is available on our about us page.”


Quote:
“Anywhere EU

calls, SMS & data can be made or received on any EU or UK network.

15 pence per min, 5 pence per SMS & 10 pence per MB - simple!

We will be covering the whole of the EU from launch and the countries are as follows:

austria, belgium, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, czech republic, denmark, estonia, finland, france, germany, greece, hungary, ireland, italy, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malta, netherlands, poland, portugal, romania, slovakia, slovenia, spain, sweden”

John_Patrick
12-06-2015
Originally Posted by oilman:
“£120 is far too expensive, and can only be used on O2. No good if it is an O2 notspot.

Surely all you need to do is get a pay and go sim from each of the main operators with a few pounds credit on each.”

Different end result though.

Least with the new service then people who want to contact you will be able to via one number (assuming that you have the coverage from one of the three supported networks)

If swapping SIMS around a/ You would have to possibly spend 10 minutes swapping SIMS and switching phones on to find which had best reception and then b/ Those who wanted to call you would need to call three different numbers until they got you.

Its a niche market but its a useful service to have to be able to be contactable as much time as possible - Service engineers, telecom engineers (predominantly those that would be switching off a particular site for a short time may find their own phone then has no signal - been able to roam to another is the solution)
oilman
12-06-2015
Originally Posted by d123:
“The £120 offer is an EU roaming sim that works on all UK networks, so for a frequent traveller quite a good deal.”

The aim of this SIM is roaming within UK.

For travel to EU, many other choices e.g. Look at www.togglemobile.co.uk - much better deal depending on which country you travel to. Some only 3p per min to landlines. Countries mainly Western Europe (UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Holland, Spain, Sweden, Poland, and also include other non-eu countries e.g. USA, Australia and Norway

15 per min from the UK roaming sim is not that generous in EU when compared to normal max of 18p approx anyway.
d123
12-06-2015
Originally Posted by oilman:
“The aim of this SIM is roaming within UK.
”

No, it's not, the £120 sim is a EURO roaming sim valid for a year, they do have links to sims that work only in the UK (either 4 network incoming/O2 outgoing or 4 network incoming and outgoing).

Anyone wanting just UK use should be buying a UK only sim when they do launch.
oilman
12-06-2015
Originally Posted by d123:
“No, it's not, the £120 sim is a EURO roaming sim valid for a year, they do have links to sims that work only in the UK (either 4 network incoming/O2 outgoing or 4 network incoming and outgoing).

Anyone wanting just UK use should be buying a UK only sim when they do launch.”

Apologies, I must have misinterpreted their website - our internet is like a yoyo at the moment and so I was rushing!
heskethbang
12-06-2015
You've been able to do this for years anyway. I used to have a special international sim for when I worked on Cruise Ships, and this meant I could use any network in any country. It came in very handy when I was in the Scottish highlands as all UK networks as it would roam onto whatever network happened to be available.
nigelbb
13-06-2015
I lived in France for many years & it used to amuse me when I travelled to the UK with my French Orange mobile that I would always have signal from one or other UK network while friends & colleagues would be without on their UK phones. The price that the UK pays for cheap mobile phones is that the coverage from all of the networks is pretty poor individually. Unfortunately none of them compete on coverage any more as they all claim 98% or more of the UK population which isn't the same as 98% of the geography by any means.
natbike
14-06-2015
It has interesting pricing (free incoming calls on all networks) but that's probably been accounted for within the monthly fee.

I currently use http://globalsimcard.co.uk or
http://www.aaisp.com/telecoms-sip2sim.html
for a similar service.

They charge for inbound calls when not on the home network but have no (global) or a low (aaisp) monthly fee.

If the monthly fee for anywhere sim is £10, light users would be better with global. Both have numbers that come out of bundle minutes with all main UK providers (aaisp is a normal landline number).
rasseru16
25-09-2015
Ok so some feedback on the service, cant say i'm all that impressed, data only works when roaming on the 'Home' O2 network, whilst roaming on the other UK networks (3 not included) is only available for calls and text messages.
Stereo Steve
25-09-2015
It's not a bad idea and may encourage other similar services which are cheaper / better. Pity it's not based on EE as that would be perfect around here. EE for most calls and data but fallback to VO2 for 2G if required. That would interest me quite a lot. At the mo I use dual SIM but that means no iPhone.
Daveoc64
25-09-2015
I've just ordered a SIM to try out.

I have no real interest in using it properly, but I like the idea.
rasseru16
25-09-2015
Can you let me know if you have any success using the roaming data? On O2 also it's rubbish for me around here.
Daveoc64
25-09-2015
Originally Posted by rasseru16:
“Can you let me know if you have any success using the roaming data? On O2 also it's rubbish for me around here.”

I was able to use data on O2, EE and Vodafone.

I've done some Speed tests.

I used it on an iPhone 4, so not the best device. I will do some tests on something more modern next week.

Here are some screenshots of the tests:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5821cb0v0x...%2036.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4iyngve0dz...%2042.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0c91vj3qr...%2050.png?dl=0

I had to turn Data Roaming on to get the data to work.
dabotsonline
26-09-2015
Originally Posted by rasseru16:
“Ok so some feedback on the service, cant say i'm all that impressed, data only works when roaming on the 'Home' O2 network, whilst roaming on the other UK networks (3 not included) is only available for calls and text messages.”

Originally Posted by Daveoc64:
“I was able to use data on O2, EE and Vodafone.

I've done some Speed tests.

I used it on an iPhone 4, so not the best device. I will do some tests on something more modern next week...

I had to turn Data Roaming on to get the data to work.”

Have Customer Services enabled the ability for you to call 0845 and 0870 numbers? According to http://anywheresim.com/the-small-print/ , it's not enabled by default but I'm not sure whether that also means it is not possible full stop. Of course, the inability for the SIM to work outside the EU full stop is a bigger issue, although this could be overcome - with caveats - by using it in conjunction with a KnowRoaming sticker (Truphone, the aforementioned Toggle SIM, and other solutions that offer local numbers with caveats obviously involve a physically separate SIM card).

** The following is not spam! **

I had an interesting phone discussion a couple of months ago with Marshall Frieze, Director of New Business Sales at Leeds-based 24 Seven, who informed me that they will be launching their JUMP service - which operates on a similar principle to Anywhere SIM, including no agreement with Three as of yet, but with some level of 4G support across the other networks - to the consumer market before the end of 2015.

Aside from that, we discussed VoWiFi, VoLTE, handoff, carrier aggregation, FreedomPop, Project Fi, Apple SIM, Gigasky, international roaming with local numbers with SMS and call forwarding, HulloMail and other voicemail solutions, network-based and handset-based call recording, *0# up-to-160-char network-based and handset-based (not possible on Android phones with O2 SIMs) SMS delivery reports, and more.
rasseru16
26-09-2015
Originally Posted by Daveoc64:
“I was able to use data on O2, EE and Vodafone.

I've done some Speed tests.

I used it on an iPhone 4, so not the best device. I will do some tests on something more modern next week.

Here are some screenshots of the tests:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5821cb0v0x...%2036.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4iyngve0dz...%2042.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0c91vj3qr...%2050.png?dl=0

I had to turn Data Roaming on to get the data to work.”

Very interesting! I wonder why I could only get data to work on O2 :/ must be my APN but i enabled data roaming and used the mobiledata APN :/
Daveoc64
27-09-2015
Originally Posted by dabotsonline:
“Have Customer Services enabled the ability for you to call 0845 and 0870 numbers? According to http://anywheresim.com/the-small-print/ , it's not enabled by default but I'm not sure whether that also means it is not possible full stop. Of course, the inability for the SIM to work outside the EU full stop is a bigger issue, although this could be overcome - with caveats - by using it in conjunction with a KnowRoaming sticker (Truphone, the aforementioned Toggle SIM, and other solutions that offer local numbers with caveats obviously involve a physically separate SIM card).”

I'm not interested in using the SIM outside of the UK or to call 0845/0870 numbers, but I haven't been able to call the top up line yet (not that I plan to use the SIM much more than for testing).

I see the target market being quite niche, where having the best possible rural coverage is essential.

I did some speed tests using my Nexus 6...

EE:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/902872/DS/EE.png

O2:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/902872/DS/O2.png

Vodafone:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...S/Vodafone.png

Both the iPhone and Nexus 6 identified the SIM as a Vodafone NL SIM, so I assume that's their partner network for issuing the SIMs.
rasseru16
27-09-2015
Originally Posted by Daveoc64:
“I'm not interested in using the SIM outside of the UK or to call 0845/0870 numbers, but I haven't been able to call the top up line yet (not that I plan to use the SIM much more than for testing).

I see the target market being quite niche, where having the best possible rural coverage is essential.

I did some speed tests using my Nexus 6...

EE:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/902872/DS/EE.png

O2:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/902872/DS/O2.png

Vodafone:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...S/Vodafone.png

Both the iPhone and Nexus 6 identified the SIM as a Vodafone NL SIM, so I assume that's their partner network for issuing the SIMs.”

What APN was you using?
Daveoc64
27-09-2015
Originally Posted by rasseru16:
“What APN was you using?”

"mobiledata" as the leaflet included with the SIM said to use.
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