Still using the £1 sim from a while back on the 4th month @£1 :smiley: still voted this hot!

I've got 3 sims from life mobile...it was fantastic at first but recently noticed internet drop off, 3G going off and phone cuts out on some calls. Automatically cuts call more than 1hr regardless if you have mins.

has been, but good to remind us all of a great deal.

Got this offer some months back and so far so good. I do aggree an app to check your account etc is better.

this is on the hot deals sim only thread, where I got it. switched from Virgin, I'd say the Internet is noticeably faster even though it's the same network. amazing deal very happy with it, probably deserves it's own thread heat :smile:

I've got 3 sims from life mobile...it was fantastic at first but recently noticed internet drop off, 3G going off and phone cuts out on some calls. Automatically cuts call more than 1hr regardless if you have mins.

I have agree it was great few months ago and now internet connections getting worse and worse. had to leave .

Still using the £1 sim from a while back on the 4th month @£1 :smiley: still voted this hot!

Even though this is a bargain, I've had to vote cold.
I've been with Life Mobile for six months and over the last few weeks the call quality and the ability to connect calls has dropped. I can make calls about 50% of the time, even with a good signal.
Data is also now an issue: Previously EE was the fastest network around here, but now the data appears to be throttled a lot. It's very similar to giffgaff's data - most of the time it just doesn't connect, and speed test results are typically 1-3mbps download and 0.6mbps upload.

It's so bad that I've requested my PAC from Life Mobile and will be leaving them next week.

This probably indicates that i isn't comerciallu viable to run a service lke this at this price point. It sounds to me like they were banling on extra subs to make it profitable but without thr investment to cope with it. I could be completely wrong though.

i got 7mb download at lunchtime in central London. gaffgiff gets me 0.01 if lucky! hot

LIFE also do a credit check for those of you who need to keep their credit record perfect.

I would give them a try, I live in Brighton, and the EE signal is quite good. But will leave it, as it is only 3g
Will try when / If they jump to 4G

A good 3G connection is much faster than a bad 4G connection...

thanks for posting.

Its a great deal on paper however I have been on Life Mobile for the past..... 4months? Constant signal drops and even sim card straight out failing to register on phone. This isn't just one off, it happens afew times a day. I am switching back to giffgaff. Life has good customer service too, but yeh.

Just had a live chat with them about 4G, and here is a quote "We have no plans to introduce 4G to all customers , However, after 6 clear payments/ once the 7th bill has generated; you'll have the option to upgrade where 4G will be available"

Did you wait the 48 hours after delivery as in the instruction they delay the activation by that time but you can have it connected in the hour if you phoned them.

I've been with them for 4months. I have already done all the pre-activation etc.

Cool had a few friends that didn't do the pre-activation some of us do read stuff :smiley:

Are there any options for 3GB data?

Never mind,just read the above posts.so many negative experiences.
not worth it.

I am already on the same tariff but get 1GB per month, will they automatically upgrade me?

We've had a phone with them for about 6 months now. I have no complaints, and customer service is the best I've had when ringing through with any queries - very fast to answer the phone. - Voted Hot by me!

I've voted hot I was on life for 6 months never had a problem, 3g let it down for me so switched 2 ee on the 19.99 offer with £88 cash back now get super fast 4g

I can barely use data today on Life Mobile is throttled so much!

I've been with them since February was with giffgaff but I found the 3g speeds on life were much faster than 4g with giffgaff with both phones on full signal, can't say that I've experienced any of the problems others are talking about with day data speeds slowing down

UK based and reasonable service. Had for a few months. No complaints apart from only 3g slow at times.

My colleague who sits right next to me has this (on a G5) and I have EE bought direct (in an S6) - in the centre of Leeds I get 20mb and she barely gets 0.2mb, most of the time it times out trying to find a connection and reports network error

Does anyone know if I can give my PAC in month 2 or do you have to give it during sign up? Thanks

Great price but this deal has been going for yonks and been posted before so nothing new, but a good reminder

had life mobile which i struggled with.. got a deal with ee and calls and texts can get through as well as data finally.
i though at least calls should be unaffected... but it was.
but the deal itself is great so heat.
reception not so much.
on a side note, customer service is UK based and they are really nice and helpful.

Recommend LIFE Mobile, I'm a light user so went with their £4.95 a month deal and it's been excellent so far.

Me and my significant other have been with life mobile for 3/4 months. Cannot grumble, now and again call doesnt connect properly but had that with o2 and vodafone. You have to be mental not to join at this price!!

Another thumbs up from me. Been with them 9 months and have had no problems at all. Great data speeds and really efficient and friendly call centre.

Thanks for the info - much appreciated

No problems here either. Was with O2 for years before and not noticed any drop in Web speed. Customer service is good too. Only gripe with them is you can't text to short numbers (for eg charity donations) bit for the price I can't complain at all.

same, i wonder when it will end?

Early days for us, two of the uSwitch £5.95 contracts taken out with them, but very happy with the service so far. Called customer services to port my old number and to turn off voicemail, calls answered in seconds by very friendly northern based staff. If it goes bad, which i hope it doesn't, it's a 30 day contract, so no big deal to pac out.

It will not end they will just keep it going, they have the right to give us 30 days notice of the termination of the account but I think that would just be to much bad press so they will keep us maybe offer a deal at some point to change if you use a lot of the allocation they give you I only use a small amount (30ish text/min a month and 1gb data)

I had the same issue with giffgaff, no I moved 3 accounts to Life mobile, the customer service is awesome as they do talk British English and without any fuss or issues, don't need to repeat twice.

My review so far 5+ out of 5!!!

will this sim work on a 2g phone?

time to upgrade!!!!!

great deal but yes this has been posted 6 weeks ago by me got a goody bag from them and 2 months free

Great network. Only left because they didn't support SMS to premium numbers (5 numbers type)

Ive had the same thing, been with them since a similar deal was posted about 3 months ago, im only a light user so have put up with it! but yeah calls cutting out all midway through, also noticed lots of txts don't go through as I get the 'failed to deliver' tag come up, takes about 3 times to finally get one sent, acording to the coverage checker on there site its the best (dark pink) I was thinking of asking for a new sim instead, annoying.

Great deal. Does anyone know if your number would be retrievable if the company closed shop?

Anyone have any experience with iD Mobile? Are they any good?

Err....they are owned by EE/BT.

Since seeing a deal posted around 6 months ago u joined Life mobile and it's been the best provide I've been with along with the best priced

This Deal is cheap man?, nice!. :-)

Their backbone is VodaFone, and they're marketed in conjunction with CarPhoneWarehouse, if that helps?, lol.

But haven't had any dealing's with them myself personally?, so no idea ... they WERE formally TalkMobile though? (if that mean's anything to you?).

Eh? No, IDMobile use Three. Talkmobile still exists, and is now owned and 'backboned' by Vodafone. You were right about IDMobile being owned by CPW, though (although there are rumours they could be actually owned by Three but marketed by CPW). Clear as mud, aint it? :stuck_out_tongue:

​Call them. They will upgrade you & it will take effect at end of your monthly billing cycle

​They use '3'

Thank you op...I am really fed up with O2 premium and information charges which were never used by me but paying extra £18/month from last few months .No help or support from O2 who claims to be one of the uk top provider.

I've been with life for about 4months now and had know issue with them. I pay £13.45 for unlimited texts and calls 6gb data. I don't use that much data and calls/texts so maybe that's why I'm not having issues.

​My better half is on iD, 1gb 4g data, 5000 texts and 250 mins for £5 month. If I had it I would go elsewhere as receiving calls and sending texts can be very hit and miss.

Great deal, moved from giffgaff and even though I'm 3g now my Internet is way faster. Great for adults and kids (I passed credit check so anybody proberly will)

Get the odd text delay. Nothing worse than any off the big boys though. Great price.

For such amount e.g 1X£5.95 in my opinion this is an abuse of credit check system. This is the problem if they have nothing to loose to do so, they do not really care what impact will it make to people. The conspiracy between CRA and Vendors, Banks and force people to pay for the CRAs.

Could this allowance be used abroad in the EU countries ??

Might be certain areas. Im with three and never have signal on trains and i see other people talking on their phones. Very frustating

no and as I found out recently, if you want to use your phone abroad you need to call/ email / chat with them to activate it, they did mine very quick though.

Our take on life after being with them for 2 months for 3 sims, number porting across was very complicated for 2 of them, one took 6 days to complete, another 4 days and the issue on the second one was down to the last company adding a profile to the phone which didn't remove and 2 people saying it was just a porting delay when it wasn't. The other sim was done very quickly less than 24 hours.

customer service is excellent outside the porting, spoke to them a few times and all was very good, they even gave us a months credit on 2 of the sims for the service we had on the porting.

Coverage, first off, up to 16Gb on Data against 1 to 2GB on Giffgaffs 4G, all sounds good but the actual coverage is terrible, we live in a highly populated area and often don't get signal, went some where on holiday recently and no signal at all and EE say they have 94% of the UK covered, odd that. We are going to give it a another month or so but expect we will be looking elsewhere.

I'm on the £1 a month glitch deal from a while back and i've found them a mixed bag. Customer service is great but i've experienced repeated drop outs in signal and no data but I was with Virgin before who use EE and never had a signal issue so it can't be a network coverage issue and i'm using the same phone. For example sat in my study downstairs I got full H+ with Virgin with Life I get g, to get H+ I need to be upstairs. Just tried a speed test and to my surprise this morning I got 21 Mbps down and 2.89 Mbps up whilst upstairs. Previously i've had 3.2 down and 1.93 up so varies a lot.

For £1 a month i'm staying put for now but if I was paying more i'd leave and go elsewhere as this is the first time i've ever had network issue. Oh and I tried a new sim and it didn't make any difference sadly.

Been with them since December, never had an issue. Friendly, UK customer service. Texts sometimes take a second attempt, and internet speeds decent enough for my needs (including tethering, which is unusually allowed).

good to know. thanks

Life are great,I've been with them for about 6 months. My 3g in most parts of Bournemouth is never lower than 11 meg. Suits me nicely. UK customer service is a real bonus too.

Current customer just upgraded to this.
UK customer support Is fast and spot on. The signal does drop occasionally but brilliant otherwise. More than happy with life.

Is it possible to order 3 of these deals at the same time? Looks like I can only add one to the basket with no option to change quantity.

I have 2 of the £1 contracts with Life from HUKD posting some time ago. Much better than Vodafone and a friendly and HELPFUL quick to answer UK helpline. They even let me cancel an earlier £4.95 contract, refunded in full, when i got the £1 one. RECOMMENDED

I ordered 2 last time but i had to order individually, seperate direct debit etc.

Just changed to this deal from their £9.95 a month sim. I hardly use any of my allowances but it is nice to know I have the data when I need it, the rest I'll never use. Asked them using live chat and was sorted out for me with no hassle.

There is a deal with Three at the moment,

All you can eat minutes and text plus 4gb data.... And they have an app, only £9 a month

It's probably on the sim only thread, heat added

I have no EE signal at my house, am currently using the EE booster box. Will LIFE mobile be able to run off the EE booster box?

Recommend Life Mobile, was a delay of a few days after giving my pac code but refunded me a couple of quid for the inconvenience, which is a bargain as on the £5.95 package anyway. Network wise I get H or H+ most of the time which is from what I understand in between 3G and 4G. Customer service is great. Never had a call drop by the network as yet (been with them just under 2 months) Heat!

I've just looked at the reviews for life mobile on trustpilot, think I will give them a miss,

Good deal if you can actually get reception to use it. I have had it for a month and 99% of the time only get 1bar reception, often get 0 bars, never ever seen full 5 bars. Greater London area, so not in the city near high rise buildings and not out in the country.

Been with them for a long time now. Used Tesco, Vodafone, Virgin, EE, and T-mobile in the past. Theyre right up there with Tesco as the best. They are owned by EE i believe.

1.5gb decent data? I use somewhere between 1-1.3gb a day!

After the initial SIM card which would not work for data, there has been no problem at all for me (West London). Only caveat is that the phone has to be on "roaming" in order for the data connection to work (not that I really use it that much).

dont know if this is relevant here but given they use ee signal same as bt i thought id add it ..Anyway I was reliably informed EE is upgrading the network uk wide (forget the time frame but it wasn't overly long) as they got the contract for the emergency services so have to cover 98% of uk land mass now rather than just the x% of population they used to like to claim they did before.. locally we had poor service in some previously 2g and 3g areas for several weeks or more at a time but only for it to move to 4g lte when normal service resumed. we have both EE and BT contracts here and both have suffered the same at times said area have been bad and turned out to be in process of been upgraded.

who cares if customer service is uk based when you could miss calls,miss text messages and the data speed could be as slow as it was in mobile phones of 2004?
there are so many complaints just in this thread alone.
too much risk to take for saving few quid.
a sim card that is unreliable and hit and miss with receiving calls should be avoided even if it's free.

​I have to admit that the UK based customer service is good, but far from perfect. It's comparable to Three.
They certainly aren't any use when it comes to complaining about not being able to use data or call issues!

Good enough deal but for a few quid more on three you get 4gb of 4G data and unlimited calls.

Edit: just to add my call quality a fair bit of time was poor. Used to think was the phone till I read this now. That people been having issues. Again never seen a full signal almost like its deluded. Anyways on the three deal I posted above now and so far so good. Worth the extra money

Edit 2: Also to add had a bit of a issue when travelling to the Ireland. Had advised them I was going they switched something on in my account but never worked correctly. I could ring people in Ireland but not back to UK. Called again on return to the UK and seems to be OK now. But still a pain having to ring up twice for the same issue.

Anyone comment on signal service in london,thanks

Thanks, I live in pretty rural Scotland and I know that Three isn't the best for connectivity up here, but damn are they cheap.

I too have Life mobile. Great customer service. But for some reason I also get intermittent yet frequent call rop outs. I have replaced the sim card and it still occurs. What is interesting to me is the Dual SIM phone I have rums two EE MVNO operators. LIFE and Virgin. Most of the time These two differ in strength with Virgn mobile always having the better signal. I have currently 3 bars on Virgn and zero on Life. . I have swapped sim card r slots and the symptoms followed the sim card and so was not hardware related. Reported to Life as it would appear the the Life signal strength us somehow restricted.

Any good alternative to this for 1-month sim only contract? The 4GB plan on THREE seems to be on a 12-month contract....

I joined LIFE mobile about a week ago and so far so good. All the issues withe LIFE reported above I've been experiencing with Virgin for last 18 months. I'll give a few months and if it deteriorates substantially then I'm off. But hot for me so far. :smile:

Yeah thanks, but I'm talking in general about any of these companies. Just wondering on the off chance one of them closes down, would you always need the company to retreive the phone number or could it be done by the network it uses, or some other way?

2 sims...been with them over a year. No hitches. No problems. No signal issues to date.

Surprised with some of the comments

Interesting reading some of the comments here as seem to be the same situation as me. Signed up about 6 months ago and everything has been mostly fine with the odd call dropout but never had a data problem until recently. Started with the odd day not having any internet connection but thought it was probably a network problem but has become too frequent now and haven't been able to use 3g for 4 days now. Ive ended up here as I've logged onto hotukdeals to find a new SIM deal as fed up with this issue now.

​Our local mast was upgraded (two days of no service), but since then my service using Life Mobile has been terrible!

I'm not pleased with the "upgraded" service :disappointed:

Ive had no problems really so far, been with them about 9 months. I'm n £6 for 1500 mins, unlimited text and 1gb. The last two months I've had to add on 500mb of data for Pokemon go. I wonder if they would switch me to this if i asked. Shall try later.

Definitely worth a try, their customer service close at 8pm, let us know how you get on.

will this sim work in a phone locked down to the EE network?

Just Ordered , Thx

Yep, that's what I've got and it works no problems :smiley:

if it makes any different, a lot of my friends and I are on EE but we also have this, phone shows data connectivity but data is just dead. Its causing havoc with my mrs as she keeps thinking im ignoring her and im thinking shes not returning calls! She rang 3 times the other day whilst sitting next to me and nothing!

This used to happen when 4g first came out and it was a problem there end with the switching to the 3g to handle phone calls.

Is it over crowding on networks or what?

Just be aware that it isnt just life mobile it seems to be a EE wide thing, this is only noticeable if you use the phone a lot as my friends and I do.

oh and how does the smart cap buffer thing work? is it good for kids?

Living in Brighton - switched from Three last week due to gaps in 3g phone service. So far 2g/3g service coverage had been excellent and data speed perfectly sufficient. If Life Mobile goes bad then it is only a 30 day contract, so could switch to O2 or Vodafone based networks. With support for tethering and 1.5GB data this looks the best deal available. Really good to have UK based support staff who seem highly efficient.

I have 4 accounts with Life on the £5.95 tariff for the last 6 months. All light users.
EE is the only carrier I get a signal with at all in my house so my choice is limited. I need to be able to receive texts to use my online bank account at home and they arrive instantly.
Out and about I have no problems with data (which is pretty much all I use the phone for anyway) It is infinitely better than Giff Gaff who I was with previously

I'm currently in Central London near Oxford Circus.

Speed test 4.48Mbps download & 0.31Mbps Upload.

I find it fine for everyday browsing, small downloads (maybe an app or short video) and general data use (whatsapp, FB etc) – perfectly fine for my use. I use WiFi when at work and at home.

If you are a heavy downloader (stream music or video) then this might not be for you.

Only slight annoyance is that I can no longer use the WiFi on the London Underground since switching from EE.

I am currently using 3 321 sim card, it is really cheap, but I constantly could not make or receive phone calls at office or home.

Tried different phones, same problem. It is likely to do with the 3 321 sim card, not my phone.


Seriously thinking of taking up the deal.


Can I use the free minutes to call 08 numbers?


Virgin's £5 sim, the free minutes can be used to call 08 numbers.

You can call 0800 numbers for free, and it won't come out of your allowance. All networks do this now.
The more expensive 084/087 numbers are chargeable on Life though. However you can use Saynoto0870 and WeQ4U to find alternative numbers.
Most companies are now going down the 03 route and calls to 03 numbers come out of your minute allowances.

Thank you very much to clarify everything for me.

That is a very good detailed reply.

I emailed them just after posting earlier and they have moved all three of my accounts to the new tariff. That's pretty good service!

just switched my current life account to this,very easy process,less than 5 mins!
tbh never had a problem with them in 7 months I`ve used them,always had signal and data! thumbs up from me!:smiley:

Comment pre activation? This is nonsense they can't activate quicker everyone has to wait 48 hrs after dispatch what r u talking about?!ive queries this with them and they said everyone has to wait the same one due to security measures

Thanks OP, ordered one..heated

I had the same with Three the other day too. It might be something they build in to stop you accidentally having a call lasting a few days. Back in the 90s when I was a Telecom engineer, I knew a guy at MErcury whose job it was to look at issues like that.

Hot deal. Personally, I prefer more data and less mins/texts.

But it doesn't happen to my o2 sim I had before.

After considering for a few days I've just changed my 1500 mins / 1gb tariff to this. I never get anywhere near my inclusive limits but more likely to need the data on occasion so seemed like a no brainer.

I dont know. It may be they havent applied that policy. I might be completely wrong.

What is the best route if I want to change my current provider to this? Is it best to order 1st, then wait till arrives, then activate, then call current provider to get PAC codes? I assume PAC code they provide over the phone immediately and I then call LIFE with them? I can't see my current provider matching this deal, so not to worried about them trying to keep my business.

I was with EE and definitely didn't want to sign up to another long contract, so i ordered my Life SIM, i then rang EE immediately after to request my PAC. They asked if i had already signed up for a new contract, so i said i had and they asked for details, i told them about the Life deal and they said they could "possibly" have matched it, yeah right.

I received my Life SIM which was activated within 48 hours, so i called Life and gave them my PAC, everything was done and dusted in a week.

Nice one! :smiley: ... Thanks for the info, I'll be sorting ours all tomorrow. Fact that Virgin can only give me 3x rolling SIMs also has swayed me to move, said there was nothing they could do... I mean really!?! I used to have 4 with them many years ago, and then only 3.. I recon I've been with them 10+ years now. Their loss.. Hopefully LIFE let me have more than 3.

Emailed them and they changed me to this from my old uswitch deal, starts next month.

Contact your current provider get PAC code first, there is no need to wait. PAC code can be used within 30 days from issue.

I ordered from LIFE mobile yesterday, sim card received today. It will be automatically actviated from 12noon tomorrow.

Once active, call 500 from LIFE mobile give them your PAC.

Life mobile have the best customer service from any mobile operator in this country.
I was with them a few years ago but jumped ship when phones 4 u who used to own them went belly up and I was afraid of losing my number but even in those days you never waited longer than a few rings before speaking to an advisor.
I'm now back with them and yesterday needed to call them and within 4 rings a friendly guy from their Merseyside call centre answered and immediately sorted my enquiry out.

Are you aware that they do review (possible additional discount) of account after 6 months? As I was told by live chat operator. I moved 3 accounts to Life mobile and looking forward to stay for long time!!!

When can I upgrade?

All LIFE Mobile customers are entitled to upgrade from 6 months into their contract term. SIM Only contract customers can upgrade for free from as early as 6 months into their contract term. Handset contract customers can upgrade for free from as early as 60 days from the end of their contract term. Charges may apply to upgrade before the free eligibility period.



Am I eligible to upgrade?

As long as the minimum term of 6 months has been completed and your account payments are up to date, you will most likely be eligible to upgrade your contract. However further restrictions may apply. To discover whether you’re able to upgrade, call our Sales Support Team on 500 from a LIFE Mobile handset or on 0800 0791133 from any alternate line, though please note calls to an 08 number may be chargeable.

https://lifemobile.co.uk/Info/FAQ

I am impressed so far.

Sim card received the next day from order.

2 days from order, sim card automatically activated as promised on the instruction.


And signals so much better and solved my problem.

This year, my 3 321 sim card constantly cannot make any phone call or receive phone call. By constant, I mean all the time unless I restart every time. I tried different handset and all have the same problem. It was a problem caused by 3 network or the 321 sim card. That was the reason I signed for the LIFE mobile.

In the same locations, LIFE mobile sim has no problem at all, tried few hours, can always receive and make calls.

Exact same situation and outcome here.

does the £5.95 include vat, or is that additional?

It's including VAT. I pay £5.95 a month.

As Thar says, but ​note that all mms messages are chargeable at an extra 40p each.

There is no app to keep tabs of one's usage (& account), although there is an online browser page that needs logging-in in order to check these:
https://myaccount.lifemobile.co.uk/myaccount/jsf/pages/Login.xhtml

Had quick look through and can't see anything mentioned.

Phone currently locked to EE. Does anyone have any experience of Life sim working on EE locked phone?

Someone already mentioned earlier in the thread that their EE locked phone was working fine with LIFE, so I expect you'll be good to go.

It will definitely work in an EE locked phone.

Perfect thanks guys.

Coul the data allowance to be used abroad

​several times mentioned, you can't use data or minutes or sms allowance abroad.

Ok, for those of you who don't know, EE is the sister company for LIFE who offered them a helping hand when they started off a few months ago. They initially used the EE network for calls and data, and over the past few months have negotiated less than 50% EE brandwidth with worsening loss of speed and access to EEs own network.

So this means that LIFE are now expanding their network and transmitters in order to maintain connectivity and service levels. Overall parity with EE will be less than 25% before the end of 2016. This all results in poor speed and call quality for LIFE customers.

And all this is likely to get worse before it gets better, as I cannot see LIFE having enough maker share or profits in order to develop their own network.

I'll get my coat...

​no issues here, can be issue with connections in particular area...

Does anybody know what a similar deal would cost on 4G with Life? (Yes, they do offer 4G, but only if you have been a customer for 6 months).

​I think it will be different cost for 4G, less minutes (I do remember someone has mentioned on HUKD)

Copied this from the SIM only thread

If you are going abroad,You need to contact them and tell them to activate roaming ,My son just went to tenerife and no signal but went on chat on wifi and they sorted it withing an hour.

Do you have a source for any of this? I'm rather surprised at the notion of an MVNO having its own masts.

Thanks for this, for the sake of £6 (per month); willing to give these a go.

Currently on EE, at end of iPhone 6 24 month contract. Keeping my handset as still happy with it.

To be fair, ive had the same issues when using an EE SIM and BT SIM. It really is worth giving them a call if you have any issues, they did something their end and ive had less.

To be fair, with the amount of factors involved it could be down to anything! :smile:

Just signed up. I've requested my Virgin PAC code so once i've received the Life Sim and activate it, ring them and give them the PAC code how long does it take for my existing number to become active?

In my experience, within 1-2 days of giving it to them.

Not sure if that automatically ends your contract with Virgin Mobile (VM), but once I got the PAC code from VM, I also gave them my 30-days cancellation notice, because I thought they might continue billing me even when I was not using them any longer.

i have asked for them to terminate the contract so i suspect ill request the switch over from Life and then keep using the Virgin Sim until it stops then i presume the Life one will be active?

When i ported my number into Life it was done the next day early morning. I gave Life my PAC around 1pm. I've had zero issues while with Life Mobile.

I've ee bt and now this life sim.. as far as I can tell none is better than another they all use the same transmitters.. life use ee network say so on thier page and bt bought ee.. as I said above I know for a fact ee is currently upgrading thier network because they have the contract for the emergency services this is why your likely reason some people as getting issues lately.. when it settles you'll find it is now a 4g lte area as will 98% of the landmass be by the end of the upgrades.. as that's what is required of them to meet with the contract requirements.

Just switched from Virgin after they told me they were removing the loyalty discount I had on my previous tariff. I gave them the chance to match this deal but they couldn't come close. The switch happened smoothly, I called life as soon as the SIM was activated (which was 2 days after their delivery notification email), gave them my PAC from Virgin and the switch was complete by the next day. Reception and internet seem ok, certainly no worse than what I had with Virgin. Still early days to know whether some of the issues others have reported will affect me but no problems so far and friendly customer service. All ok for now.

9th October a couple of weeks later and all good still. Only one slight niggle, namely that in voicemail options there doesn't seem to be any way to hear the "message envelope" giving time and details of callers who leave a message. I rarely use voicemail and now have it turned off anyway, so other than that, I don't miss Virgin at all. I'd say go for it if you're interested.

can't seem to order on laptop OR on iphone. session timed out messages on laptop and similar on iphone!! been trying for the last two days!

Anyone else having issues? what can i do?

Have you tried a different browser? The link is working for me but I can only get so far without actually ordering, I already have a contract so don't need another :smiley:

You could always ring them on 0800 0791133 and see if they can do the order over the phone for you?

​not true, as the company owned by EE.

you probably one of them people who telling that all supermarket do have own factories to produce own brands, haha, wake up as it's not true.

Some phones will require you to put in your own APN SETTINGS for your 3G to work with these

For anyone that is currently on the 1gb deal, I got my dad bumped up to this 1.5gb just by talking to someone on live chat. Took 5 minutes to be done. Begins from next refresh date.

I don't know about you guys, but my signal started dropping in the evenings, emptying my battery during the nights and now I have no coverage during the days as well. I know they are EE but I had EE before and no problems. Life says contact EE... Oh brother... Looks like I need to look for another provider...

Wow, after that chat with Life, my signal improved. Let's hope it stays that way :-)

What did they say or do? I mostly get only a single bar.

They just told me to contact EE as they are using their network... I was having a good signal before and the problems started only last week but after that chat my signal improved so I don't know what they did. He did say there is nothing that they can do but there you go... A single bar is better than no bar believe me :-)

Anyone that's passed the 6 month threshold and upgraded to 4G......
What kind of plans/prices were you offered?

See this which was posted on the SIM only thread.

Precisely the post i was looking for :stuck_out_tongue:
I knew I'd read it before but was looking in the wrong place. Thanks!

And the problems are back again. Feel sick of this network !!!