Advice on a payg sim card please

Unluckyalf · 16 Jan 2017 at 21:59

Well, im travelling back to the UK for a month in March/April and am looking for a simcard to use while I'm over there. Its my first trip back to the UK in over 10 years and im not sure what the best sim is to get.

Im looking for something primarily with some decent data allowance on it (or at least cheap to top up)

Any suggestions?

Raggs · 18 Jan 2017 at 01:01

giff gaff payg sim, then buy a Goodybag for £20 lasts a month , first 6GB of data is 4G

Unluckyalf · 18 Jan 2017 at 08:46

Excellent. Cheers mate, will have a looky

Myshra · 18 Jan 2017 at 09:22

Raggs said:
giff gaff payg sim, then buy a Goodybag for £20 lasts a month , first 6GB of data is 4G

Giff Gaff uses O2 which uses 800Mhz 4G which Australian handsets don't often use by default. Check your handset supports this freq band. Giffgaff 3G should be OK as all Aus providers used 2100Mhz. If you have the need for speed and your handset doesn't support 800mhz every other non-mvmo (so EE, Vodafone or Three) will be compatible with your handset due to the bands they use for 3/4G.

Unluckyalf · 19 Jan 2017 at 08:54

Handset is an iPhone 6.
800Mhz is listed as supported and its not locked to any network. I guess i could try Giff Gaff and try another network if it doesnt work.

Sp00n · 19 Jan 2017 at 08:55

Check the internet for reports about 4g speeds in your area for Giff Gaff, they reportedly only get a small proportion of the bandwidth available, I barely got 3g speeds in Brighton so had to move away, apart from that they were great.