Using my mobile phone in Dublin.

martindow

Even with the new EU rates data use can still add up to a large sum. Phones update and use data in the background so you always use more data than you think.

Free wifi is so widespread in most places I agree it is best to have roaming turned off. You can do without the internet 24 hours a day!

WantToBeSE

eDicky wrote: »

You'll need to ask them for their particular WiFi name/id (it will show as the one with the strongest signal on your phone) and the password. Select their WiFi, enter the password, then 'Connect'.

martindow wrote: »

Even with the new EU rates data use can still add up to a large sum. Phones update and use data in the background so you always use more data than you think.

Free wifi is so widespread in most places I agree it is best to have roaming turned off. You can do without the internet 24 hours a day!

Thanks, i think thats what i am going to do. Like you say, so many cafe's and restaurants have free WiFi these days, plus i want to be enjoying my holiday and not be fussing over Facebook or Instagram.

simongregson

You can get a three pay as you go sim free from the three.co.uk website, or in most pound shops/Tesco etc for about £1

With the feel at home programme you can use it in Ireland and use any allowance as if you are in the UK. Note that pay as you go calls/data etc are chargeable at EU roaming rates if you don't have an allowance.

If you top up £5 you would get 150MB of data allowance starting on that date + the £5 credit. You could use the £5 for text/calls or convert it to 500MB of data if you needed more data allowance than the 150mb free with every top-up. That probably would be enough for a short trip as long as you use wifi for things like video calls etc. that use a lot of data.

callum9999

simongregson wrote: »

You can get a three pay as you go sim free from the three.co.uk website, or in most pound shops/Tesco etc for about £1

With the feel at home programme you can use it in Ireland and use any allowance as if you are in the UK. Note that pay as you go calls/data etc are chargeable at EU roaming rates if you don't have an allowance.

If you top up £5 you would get 150MB of data allowance starting on that date + the £5 credit. You could use the £5 for text/calls or convert it to 500MB of data if you needed more data allowance than the 150mb free with every top-up. That probably would be enough for a short trip as long as you use wifi for things like video calls etc. that use a lot of data.

That's already been suggested.

Though as you can get 200mb a month completely free on Three I'm not sure there's even a need to top up.