SOSH was the same price €9,99 for 100Go/month - just choose SIM or eSIM when you order.
eSIM would be nice as my main phone supports two SIMs but only if one is an eSIM.
I started out assuming I would have to buy a SIM in person so the fact that I can’t, in fact, buy an eSIM online is not a big loss - but it looked so tantalisingly do-able for a second.
To be fair initially it looked like it would fit my short term needs well, untill I got to the small print. But it’s not as if I don’t visit France often enough to pick up a physical SIM from a shop.
There are some mild annoyances with that. For one think I don’t really know how the retail mobile phone market works in France. Actually I’d have to admit I don’t really know how it works in the UK either - for as long as I can remember I’ve just done it online.
I might have to pick up something slightly non-optimal as the best deals are with the MVNOs as listed above - not sure if you can pick them up in a physical store though (eg SYMA has stores but basically only in Paris).
I want to avoid Free as well as that’s probably the one with the worst signal chez moi, Orange is probably the best hence the interest in SOSH. Bouygues and SFR are somewhere in the middle.
I also need a lot of data - if we’re watching TV in the evening it’s usually Prime and a 4k TV on a fast-ish connection will rip through 10+GB hour and the other great bandwidth-hog that I have is VNC which I use a lot to keep an eye on the computers at home - staying just over a week using the Popit SIM I got quite close to maxing it out (i.e. 100GB) and we weren’t even trying.
So I’ll probably go for something like the Leclerc 60Go offering, with a physical SIM in a spare phone - then at least I’ll have a backup for and a French number and it will only cost me 6€ a month. I can then grab a physical SIM with lots of data for the Frankenbox and maybe ditch the original physical SIM & pick up an eSIM for my daily driver phone. More work than I’d like but hey-ho.
I changed my Sosh real SIM for an eSIM a while back. The deal remained the same, but they do have the nerve to charge 10€ for the change.
@billybutcher I’ve just gone over (yesterday) to using a deal from Bouygues, that is only available until 30/09/2024. My number ports over that same day, but I’m already using the data. Online sign up was easy.
Yes, I saw that, several 300Go forfaits are available around the same price.
I think I need to get a French SIM when next over - not having a French mobile number is becoming a pain (an infrequent pain but a pain nonetheless), less clear about the right way to tackle the general internet service - especially as there will be a 48 hour gap between arriving and getting anywhere to sort out service (even if we stop at the Cleunay Leclerc I’ll be too tired to want to tackle buying a SIM in French after the 4am start that the overnight ferry forces on us) - so the Tesco deal is looking least worst.