There most certainly is in the UK. I bought some for the emergency response team I managed. They would connect to whichever UK network was available. They weren’t cheap mind.
I’ll grant that I might have used clumsy language and, rather than universal, they were multi-network within one country.
Maybe that was what underlay the A&A offering - they had a UK number but would roam to any operator.
A&A have some interesting SIM offerings - including one which links into your VoIP system so you can have a mobile as an extension of your iPBX or even give it a UK geographic number. Had one for a while and it caused no end of fun with the question “what’s your mobile number” - it’s “01XXX YYYYYY”, “no, your mobile number” - yes, that is my mobile number, want to try it?". Sadly computer said no too often entering it online so the novelty wore off.
Maybe I should get another one, plus a French VoIP account - now there’s a thought.
@Moray , I hope you are paying attention to all this techie stuff (in the correct spot as far as I can gather). I am finding it rivetting, as in being rivetted by err rivets. Carry on people sorry for the interruption. 
Of course, it makes a very big difference. There is no comparison between the normal connection speed and the fiber.
My Mobile BB connection is faster than BeFibre’s base package.
Likewise my phone was giving 300Mbps in Bad Godesberg on Saturday - and it wasn’t even a 5G signal (4.5G)
There are rarely simple absolutes in life
though I do wish the illustrator had not chosen to make the right hand path also fall off the clliff, maybe it’s a metaphor, or something 
I assumed they were continuing to climb up and round the hill out of sight.
Indeed. But you have to have the right sort of perspective to get annoyed about something like that.
I’m sorry that I have the wrong sort of perspective then 
As you know I’m mentally 9 so the title of this discussion makes me think of digestion, terrible really. I’m sure fibre does make a difference 
Love that, my first thought too each time I encounter this thread.
Lovely jubbly, I haven’t seen it here, perhaps you might smuggle some through next time down. 
After 36 hours with no mobile signal/internet, due to some unexplained problems with the nearest phone mast, I’ve finally lost patience this evening, and ordered fibre from RED (SFR) at about €20 pm. What amazed me was that they will install it this Thursday ie only 4 working days post order. I’d assumed it might be 2-3 weeks etc…
Its all part of fge plan, disrupt the service and people will sign up to fibre. Its an addiction of ghe 21st century, I am thinking of giving it all up and going back to a quil and ink
Noted to out last any hard drive!
If Monday is a public holiday (Pentecost) then it is only 3 working days. Good luck with the installation George 
I’ll believe it if I see it.
Btw which is the offending network that has left you without signal for so long.
We access the internet entirely via 4G (no WiFi etc). Unfortunately the phone mast that serves our area (and is seemingly shared by all the main networks) is more and more unreliable. Occasionally we are without any means of external communication for days at a time - no phone, no internet (other than getting on my bike and searching nearby villages for a signal.) So I really can’t hold any particular mobile network responsible… that’s why we’re going for fibre, just to have a more reliable service.
Given we’re pretty rural here, it’s coming as a pleasant surprise (based on what others report about their area) that almost every house round here seems to be capable of being hooked up to fibre, per the various official maps available…maybe I’m being too naive😕
