Sim Card for mobile internet - Europe

peterdoo · 03-07-2015, 09:07

There is a very good overview on the following page:
http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.c...European_Union

The page mentions Lycamobile Germany as one of the options. As far as I could see, Lycamobile offers more or less the same roaming offer since few months in all of the countries they cover, so it does not have to be Lycamobile Germany if one prefers a number of a different country.

wolfbln · 03-07-2015, 09:24

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Originally Posted by peterdoo

There is a very good overview on the following page:
http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.c...European_Union

The page mentions Lycamobile Germany as one of the options. As far as I could see, Lycamobile offers more or less the same roaming offer since few months in all of the countries they cover, so it does not have to be Lycamobile Germany if one prefers a number of a different country.

Hi Peter.
The reference to Lycamobile is made not for their "no roaming fees offer" which is mostly a fake as they include only certain fees, e.g. no data.
Since a few weeks Lycamobile in Germany only markets "roaming packages" with a decent data rate for about 14 mostly EU countries:
http://www.lycamobile.de/de/bundle?id=6 They'll win my personal award for the worst website around.
I haven't found these offers in any other Lycamobile country yet. May be they are testing it here.
But I'm still not so sure about them to add them as another verfied option, as I don't trust Lyca so much.
I will test it in a few days. Anyway, they can't be recommended for tethering as Lyca is known to sniff and kill all tethering connections.

peterdoo · 03-07-2015, 09:51

As far as I could see, these are the HOME DATA packages for data usage in roaming that they have introduced in March together with the so called "no roaming charges" offer. They have never been advertised on their webpage, just included in the pricelist, accessible at the bottom of the misleading "no roaming charges" page. It is just that they recently appeared on the German webpage with slightly different names (still called HOME DATA in the pricelist):

http://www.lycamobile.es/sysimages/m...ar_2015_es.pdf

http://www.lycamobile.at/sysimages/m...15_Austria.pdf

http://www.lycamobile.ch/sysimages/m...2015_swiss.pdf

http://lycamobile.de/sysimages/edito...ne_germany.pdf

The offer is very good for some countries. As always with Lyca, one never knows, how long it will last. And 55€ for 1GB in France is exorbitant high. Lycamobile France charges for the same only 12€. Besides actively killing tethering Lyca customers in all countries seem to get an UK IP address, not the one of the country where the SIM is bought.

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peterdoo (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 137 Join Date: 20 Sep 2013 Country:	03-07-2015, 09:07 There is a very good overview on the following page: http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.c...European_Union The page mentions Lycamobile Germany as one of the options. As far as I could see, Lycamobile offers more or less the same roaming offer since few months in all of the countries they cover, so it does not have to be Lycamobile Germany if one prefers a number of a different country.

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peterdoo (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 137 Join Date: 20 Sep 2013 Country:	03-07-2015, 09:51 As far as I could see, these are the HOME DATA packages for data usage in roaming that they have introduced in March together with the so called "no roaming charges" offer. They have never been advertised on their webpage, just included in the pricelist, accessible at the bottom of the misleading "no roaming charges" page. It is just that they recently appeared on the German webpage with slightly different names (still called HOME DATA in the pricelist): http://www.lycamobile.es/sysimages/m...ar_2015_es.pdf http://www.lycamobile.at/sysimages/m...15_Austria.pdf http://www.lycamobile.ch/sysimages/m...2015_swiss.pdf http://lycamobile.de/sysimages/edito...ne_germany.pdf The offer is very good for some countries. As always with Lyca, one never knows, how long it will last. And 55€ for 1GB in France is exorbitant high. Lycamobile France charges for the same only 12€. Besides actively killing tethering Lyca customers in all countries seem to get an UK IP address, not the one of the country where the SIM is bought.