Virgin Unlimited Sim Card

I just had a chat with someone on the virginmedia website,

He says tethering on the unlimited data deal is well yea unlimited tethering for sure here so you can use it as that.

So you can give it a try, but you could just use your phone on tethering mode whichever really.

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Thanks for bringing up the virgin unlimited calls text and data deal, because I have signed up and am expecting a sim card from virgin and I will enjoy unlimited tethering, comes to £25 a month and the virgin network uses the ee network I think.

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Yeah you have to be a customer for virgin to get this deal, we have broadband and phone from them.
 
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lltfdaniel said:
I just had a chat with someone on the virginmedia website,

He says tethering on the unlimited data deal is well yea unlimited tethering for sure here so you can use it as that.

So you can give it a try, but you could just use your phone on tethering mode whichever really.
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I'd definitely want that in writing, personally. The website itself says:

Virgin Media said:
Unlimited Data/ Minutes/ Texts for cable customers: Unlimited plan is for Virgin TV, fibre or home phone customers only, includes unlimited data, and unlimited minutes and texts allowance to inclusive UK numbers for as long as you remain a Virgin TV, fibre or home phone customer. Includes UK calls to UK landlines (01, 02, 03) & UK mobile networks. Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man mobiles excluded. UK texts and data only. Acceptable use policy applies.
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There's a heck of a difference between 'some tethering' and almost half a TB every month! Still a good deal though; I'm going to grab one for our eldest as it works out cheaper than buying a PAYG bundle on Three.
 
Rainmaker said:
I'd definitely want that in writing, personally. The website itself says:



There's a heck of a difference between 'some tethering' and almost half a TB every month! Still a good deal though; I'm going to grab one for our eldest as it works out cheaper than buying a PAYG bundle on Three.
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Same here, same here man, i am also on pay as you go costing £35 every time from three you see.

So i will be moving away from three pay as you go and onto the virgin deal costing £25 a month.

As for tethering, i knew that there could be traffic shaping and the like, regarding acceptable use policy.

As for me, the max amount of data i would use is in the range of 95 gb a month but that has gone down to around 30gb a month as i use the phone from time to time.
 
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Sorry to hijack this thread but is they anyway a non virgin customer can get this deal or similar?

Moved into a new build a year ago and can only get ADSL which speed maxes out at around 3mb! Gladly pay what ever money for an unlimited 4G sim but can’t seem to find anything other than this virgin sim!
 
@Mull3t no i am afraid you have too be a virgin customer, as for me i am a customer for their phone and cable broadband.

Anyways in fact i just got the sim card today so am happy but have to wait for the phone to be activated.

Yea i agree with ya about virgin being the only provider to give unlimited data.

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I'll be honest here there is hassle on how to get the internet on my phone, because it does not work and the phone says i am offline but i can make calls though.

Also virgin thinks they cannot find me on their system when i put in my virgin mobile number.

this > https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Virgin-Mobile/New-Sim-No-Internet/m-p/3788738#M120540

Just a warning if you go with virginmedia mobile expect hassel.

Internet won't work on phone but calls and texts do,

Need to manually put in details in network tab on phone.
 
lltfdaniel said:
Just a warning if you go with virginmedia mobile expect hassel.

Internet won't work on phone but calls and texts do,

Need to manually put in details in network tab on phone.
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My SIM arrived yesterday, for our eldest's iPhone 6. I swapped the SIM out, powered on the phone and got a text message asking me to visit a web page to install their internet access profile. Done. It's worked perfectly.
 
Rainmaker said:
My SIM arrived yesterday, for our eldest's iPhone 6. I swapped the SIM out, powered on the phone and got a text message asking me to visit a web page to install their internet access profile. Done. It's worked perfectly.
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Lucky for you, you did not have to do as i did.

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This above is the only text message i got from Virgin.

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lltfdaniel said:
Just a warning if you go with virginmedia mobile expect hassel.

Internet won't work on phone but calls and texts do,

Need to manually put in details in network tab on phone.
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I think this is a bit of a sweeping statement to say people should expect hassle; I put my sim into my Pixel 2XL and had no problem at all. It sounds more like a handset issue initially, rather than a specific Virgin Media issue. Likewise, when my wife received her virginmedia sim (iPhone 6s) she popped it in and went without a hitch.

I assume it's working now you've entered the correct details? Seems like it was your phone having trouble validating the APN settings.
 
Yes forgive me ignorance, it is different with whatever phone you have as you say.

My phone is a oukitel k 10000 pro .

Bingo got it working finally,

All you have to do is just enter these details in,

New Virgin Mobile APN Settings

Internet APN < ( go to apn network settings here)
Name: WEB < ( call it this)
APN: goto.virginmobile.uk < (put that in)
MCC: 234----------------
MNC: 38----------------- both mcc and mnc where already set as this on my phone.
Authentication Type: CHAP - ( this)
APN Protocol: IPv4
APN Roaming protocol: IPv4
Leave all other options blank/Not set

and that's it.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/a/4124262091

a lot faster than three here in bournemouth uk, about twice as fast regarding download and also upload.

The network is very responsive when compared to three here.

Am happy bunny now.

I forgive virgin now, you only need to put in little information to get it working ;-).

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All you need to do is put in name as WEB then APN as goto.virginmedia.uk then it is authentication type as CHAP and that is it.
 
Ha, we've all had similar frustrations. It's more annoying when you can't get the support you need, which to be fair may be a VM trait.

On the speed front, it uses EEs network so long as you've got good signal you should be alright. Only problem I have is that my indoor signal is PANTS and I'm in an area surrounded by masts. As VM don't support wifi calling, it's not very good at home, I barely get any coverage at all unless by the lounge window or in the back garden.
 
The network is very responsive indeed, exactly the same as my wifi, on three it would take like 1 or 3 or 5 seconds to load a song on amazon music.

Yep about the frustrations, which is why i pointed out that it takes very little effort and time and it works, instead of giving you tons of info you only need to put in 3 different things in the APN network settings and then it works.

Just to leave it in layman's terms.

I am not looking back on three, after knowing what the service is like on virgin media mobile, which uses the EE network.

Speed is twice as fast giving me 40mbps instead of 20mbps that three gave me.

After a little nickel of trouble of not getting internet which is now sorted am happy.

I plan to use tethering as a back up connection, if tethering works i am not sure need to know first hand but i think virgin allows tethering from what i have read.

The service is A+++ better than three i would recommend virgin media mobile for sure to people, despite my own experience of the now sorted data internet connection, to go for it, but you have to be a virgin media customer all ready to get this mobile package and actually is brilliant here in bournemouth and not london where things get congested there.

About tethering and other stuff in image highlighted below,

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Link to that is > http://www.virginmedia.com/corporat...he-uks-first-truly-unlimited-mobile-plan.html

I have just turned on hotspot/tethering and good news tethering works fine which must mean it has unlimited tethering then i guess but correct me if i am wrong but to go with virgin's offering of unlimited data on tethering then that is why some people not all would sign up to this service so i am pleased.
 
lltfdaniel said:
I have just turned on hotspot/tethering and good news tethering works fine which must mean it has unlimited tethering then i guess but correct me if i am wrong but to go with virgin's offering of unlimited data on tethering then that is why some people not all would sign up to this service so i am pleased.
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There is a FUP buried somewhere, if not I'd be amazed
 
Only about 500kb of data transferred via tethering so it definitely works.

Yes it would be amazing i will look/seek for info regarding their tethering policy.

Picture below you can see hotspot/tethering,

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Tethering
Although Virgin Mobile didn’t used to allow tethering it now does, however only if you’re on one of its unlimited plans, which themselves are only available if you’re a Virgin Media customer. Additionally, the network doesn’t appear to have published whether there’s any cap to how much data you can use while tethering.

From > https://www.4g.co.uk/virgin-mobile-4g-coverage-network-summary/

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Virgin-Mobile/Tethering/td-p/3704258/page/2

I really can't find much at the moment

This website below say's that it is unlimited every thing,

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/new-phone-tariff-unlimited-everything-12064973

So from the mirror it says > Meanwhile Virgin's Truly Unlimited offering is free from tethering restrictions, throttling and data caps, and includes faster 4G speeds. Virgin Media currently uses EE's network and as of today, Virgin Mobile customers will get a boost from 40Mbps to up to 50Mbps).

All kinds of things regarding tethering below,

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&filter=location&location=forum-board:OtherMobile&q=unlimited+tethering

From https://community.virginmedia.com/t...cluding-tethering-roaming/td-p/3666098/page/2




An interesting article posted by someone above here...

http://www.virginmedia.com/corporate/media-centre/press-releases/virgin-mobile-launches-the-uks-firs...

...which includes the following hopeful, though slightly confusing line at the bottom...

"Truly Unlimited is the UK’s only unlimited plan with no tethering, throttling, speed restrictions or caps"

Yes, that's not a well-formed sentence and is kind of ambiguous. Well, strictly speaking an ambiguous sentence is one which could mean a number of different things, and this sentence has ONLY ONE possible meaning. It is clearly not meant to be a meaningless sentence, such as an over-zealous sales person or a politician might use. If it is intended to mean anything at all, then it is intended to mean that Truly Unlimited has none of the usual restrictions that one might expect, and has no tethering restrictions, no throttling or speed restrictions, and no data caps.

The sentence certainly DOES NOT mean that tethering is not allowed. In the context, that would be an absurd interpretation.

But what a struggle it is to get the definitive answer from Virgin Mobile! On the phone to Virgin Mobile, so far I've been told by two people that tethering definitely IS allowed, and by two people that is definitely IS NOT allowed.

(The most plausible answer I've had is from a Virgin Mobile employee in the Cancellations dept who says they were recently on a training course, and it was made clear that tethering is ONLY allowed on the Truly Unlimited deal, and not allowed on any other package. The reason he gave for that is that on limited packages, customers can easily exceed their allowance on tethering, be charged extra, and then because Virgin have no record of what kind of data was used (e.g. did they download 10 movies or were they streaming Spotify for 18 hiours a day) they can't demonstrate what data was used to justify their bill. But with Truly Unlimited they will never be in that situation.

That kind of makes sense. Like every other network provider, Virgin of course has to try to ensure that people don't use too much data on the 4G network, but Virgin's safeguard is that fact that they only offer this Truly Unlimited package to people who already have an unlimited home internet service in the form of Virgin's own home broadband. So, the logic is that no one will do a lot of tethering because the Virgin fibre broadband will be faster and less hassle anyway.)

I've asked to see the relevant Terms and Conditions, but so far have not found any mention of tethering anywhere in those documents, and neither have any of the Virgin Mobile people I've asked. I'm on the phone now to try to get the definitive answer before signing up.

From all that i have read, it is a mystery for me at the moment about their policy on tethering.
 
Rainmaker said:
I wouldn't push too hard. If it's not documented they can't clout you over the head with it later... but if you push, they may just write one.
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Yes i agree with you on that one, i would only use 30-50gb a month on data usage each month on the phone, i wouldn't prod the stick regarding how possibly exposed virgin is here.

As for tethering it would be my go to backup internet connection, or take it too places that have no internet access, so possibly around 100-200gb a month there if that was the case, and mind you ee do home broadband via 4g as well and their larges package is 200gb allowance.

Up to virgin if they want to change their minds in their own right, since three them selfs once offered unlimited tethering and then turned back from that idea so it is quite possible virgin is the only provider left to offer unlimited tethering at full speed unlike three with their 30gb hotspot and giffgaffs policy of 384kbps once 20gb is used up and then full speed during early morning hours.

So yeah i already knew this, up to the customer to look after virgins generous data internet policy and not ruin it as everything has it's limits you see.
 
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Seems too good to be true this, my girlfriend's parents have virgin media, in theory we could get a sim to use and pay the 25 quid for unlimited and use it for netflix and the odd downloading.
 
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