[dts5000]

Lyca mobile are offering 9gb of 4g data on their £18 plan now UK Plan XXL,

Has any one used this o2 mvno over the last year if so how was the data speeds

[swb1964]

Two things totally put me off Lyca

One is this https://www.theguardian.com/business...-investigation which admittedly was a long time ago now.

The other is the fact they are a large donor to the Tory party, and tax dodgers to boot http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...orporate-donor

[Redcoat]

I moved away from Lyca earlier this year. While their data is OK in general (certainly faster than giffgaff on O2's net, probably on a par with O2 PAYG customers in terms of priority) I was getting fed up with text messages either not getting received by those I sent them to and vice versa (or taking several hours otherwise) plus my phone and other family members' phones were randomly not receiving calls despite full strength signal indication with the phone in the same room as the caller! If it is purely for data they might be worth a shot to see if they work out OK, but if phone calls and/or SMS is in any way important then avoid.

[binary]

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Originally Posted by Redcoat

I moved away from Lyca earlier this year. While their data is OK in general (certainly faster than giffgaff on O2's net, probably on a par with O2 PAYG customers in terms of priority) I was getting fed up with text messages either not getting received by those I sent them to and vice versa (or taking several hours otherwise) plus my phone and other family members' phones were randomly not receiving calls despite full strength signal indication with the phone in the same room as the caller! If it is purely for data they might be worth a shot to see if they work out OK, but if phone calls and/or SMS is in any way important then avoid.

Sounds like there's some shonky kit in the chain, presumably that of Lyca's MVNE.

Having calls or texts fail to come through does little to inspire confidence!