Opinions of Lycamobile
Hi,
I'm looking for a cheap SIM only deal and have seen one via MSE for 5p a month for 6 months with Lycamobile. Ive seen that they use the O2 network but had a bad experience with o2 a number of years ago so wanted to know people's opinion on them and whether its worth changing to them for the deal?
Any help and advice would be most appreciated
Kind regards Mark
I'm looking for a cheap SIM only deal and have seen one via MSE for 5p a month for 6 months with Lycamobile. Ive seen that they use the O2 network but had a bad experience with o2 a number of years ago so wanted to know people's opinion on them and whether its worth changing to them for the deal?
Any help and advice would be most appreciated
Kind regards Mark
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If it doesn't work out for whatever reason then cancel the contract and you are only down 5p.
1) For some weird reason the DTMF tones did not always work properly - in the same phone i had 2 sims - 1 Lebara and 1 Lyca - if i called the same number and had to enter menu options using the keypad, the Lebara one had no problems but the Lyca one could not hear the DTMF tones and kept telling me I hadn't entered anything even though I had. This was hit and miss - some phone numbers it worked and some it didn't - but it didn't work for my GP practice or my bank.
2) It wouldn't allow you text shortcodes - even free ones - another example - after an appointment my GP practice oftens texts to ask for feedback on a scale of 1 to 10 - about 3-4 questions about the service received and you have to reply pressing a number based on your scale of satisfaction - not one of those messages could ever be sent with Lyca - but with Lebara it was fine.
3) Internet speed where I live was not as good as Lebara.
All in all they are ok for a quick port in and then back out again if you want to start a new deal with Lebara (or anyone else for that matter) - but I would not stay on Lyca for the full month again personally.