Been a vodafone customer for many years and it's served me well, especially with regards to network coverage. However there are some times, when the signal is not great or non-existent completely - especially around airports. Since I have a 2-sim iphone (vodafone is on a e-sim). I was thinking of an additional payg/pay monthly data only sim as a 'backup' for times when the signal on vodafone is not great.
Iphone a feature of 'automatic mobile data switching' for dual sims...so i was planning on using that feature.
I know giffgaff use o2 - so I was thinking about getting that one.
Any other networks/providers you would recommend to compliment vodafone so I get max coverage throughout the country ?
Thank you in advance for your responses.","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52296242","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"KodaBear"},"datePublished":"2024-02-29T10:02:08.000Z","text":"Anywhere SIM or Anywhere eSIM would be the obvious choice if you want the absolute best, since this SIM will give access to all 4 of the UK Networks at the same time.
I wouldn't pick a Giffgaff SIM. O2 and Vodafone tend to share a lot of their cell sites so there's a pretty big overlap with each other in terms of where there is and isn't coverage.
If you want to get a second SIM, I would be looking at something using EE's network - Ideally with FULL access to all of EE's bands. Band 20 (800MHz isn't accessible on some of the cheaper piggyback brands that run on EE). That would give you the best chance at having coverage everywhere. Especially now that EE have the contract to run the UK Emergency services network there's a big push to get rid of the blackspots."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/52297208","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Friday-Ubaydah"},"datePublished":"2024-02-29T11:50:12.000Z","text":"(1) Try Spusu, an Austrian cellular provider that recently started operating in the UK, piggybacking on EE.
Spusu are good value too. £2.90 per month for unlimited calls and SMS, with 1 GB data allowance.
spusu.co.uk/spu…ial