Three - Feel At Home

kathekas

Hi

I am currently in Spain.

I have a new Three sim card.

Can I insert it into my mobile and stat using 'Feel at Home' for the first time in Spain?

The card has never been used in the UK.

Will it initialise ok?

baza52

pretty sure you need to activate feel at home first by calling 3 or logging into your 3 account.

kathekas

Thanks, the previous sim card - I just put it in the phone (whilst in UK) and it activated ok

Jon_01

It may not active outside the UK. They need to communicate with the home network to become active, I have feeling they can't do that if they're already roaming.

rhysadams

I think a PAYG sim needs an add on!

Frozen_up_north

I assume the OP is referring to a pay as you go SIM card. These need an add-on in order to use feel at home. The Three web site explains it.

We are currently in Spain using feel at home on our contract SIMs, it's great, except data use is wholly dependent on the host network offering spare bandwidth. Currently affiliated to Movistar, with just a trickle of data most of the time. Also able to use WiFi in the villa, the mobile data is sufficient to exchange e-mail slowly, etc. But very hit and miss for web browsing and certainly no use for Skype.

gingerphone

if you have a older contract you get the free europe roaming, else you have to get an add on.

You maybe able to activate the sim over the phone with three letting them know the sim card #.

Just come back from Spain using three and had no issues other than H+ connectivity with movistar but enough to watch youtube , call n text etc.