On 3/29/23 14:35, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
I spend most of my time outside the UK and while I do have a local SIM,
I need my UK number to be active as a bare minimum so I can access UK
Gov, banking, basically anything with 2FA which is UK specific. Not to
mention it's been my main contact number for over 20 years.
Do any of you know what providers are offering good packages with a
focus on not too crazy roaming charges which do not place a time period
in the contract on which you can't stay outside the UK - information on
uSwitch etc suggests most operators have offered a time limit stance but
the pages I found are 1-2 years old so thought I'd ask the collective.
I have a UK Voda contract which includes charge-free roaming to EU, US
and most other useful countries. It is not exactly cheap, and there's
contradictory information about what the data cap is exactly, but I've
never had any issues with multi-month absences (longest 16mo during
Covid, usually 3-4months) from the UK threatening the contract. OTOH I
almost never turn on the data roaming while in the US, just voice and
text for banking etc 2FA.
Voda do at least seem to have finally got their heads around VoLTE
roaming, which was initially a big mess to/from the US when the 3G
shutdowns kicked off.
Keith
