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One of the frustrating things about international roaming in the UK is typically your plan does not include coverage on this neutral network on the underground
by dotBen 8mo ago
One of the frustrating things about international roaming in the UK is typically your plan does not include coverage on this neutral network on the underground
- Brajeshwar 8mo agoDid the UK stop people from just picking up a cheap SIM at the Airport? I always like a local number when traveling. Anyway, Indian Roaming plans are so cheap these days that it's much easier and cheaper to just subscribe to them as part of the plan. These days, I don’t even need to add/activate it or anything, the providers turn it ON when I start my phone outside India and turn it off when I re-activate back in India.
- Symbiote 8mo agoI think I saw vending machines with SIM cards recently in Heathrow airport.
- inlustra 8mo agoSource? As someone that comes back to London every month, I’ve been able to roam the same as anywhere else in the UK. I’d be shocked if this were true.
- mgaunard 8mo agoThe main problem if you're roaming is that you're considered a lower-priority customer, and since the network is often saturated already, you don't get any bandwidth.
- mikelward 8mo agoI don't think that's correct. With the old WiFi networks (Virgin, Vodafone WiFi, etc.), yes. With the new 4G+5G coverage, you can access that the same as you access above ground coverage.
- kalleboo 8mo agoI was thinking it could be a radio band issue? I had a fun situation when I had friends visiting me in Japan for a road trip. One friend's US-model Android phone didn't support the specific low bands used for sparse coverage in rural Japan, but the repeaters inside of the tunnels were all on standard 2100 MHz, so whenever we drove through a tunnel he rushed to his phone to get some messages through. Kind of the opposite to what you usually experience with loss of signal in tunnels :)