I have a contract with Réglo Mobil, 10 GB. When I am outside France I have terrible problems with internet reception. In Italy it was non-existent, in England fair to middling, in Germany very bad, and, when I recently crossed the border to Spain for a day, non-existent again. I’m not talking about mobile reception, which was good in all these countries, with plenty of bars visible, just internet. I asked RM about it and they washed their hands of it, saying it was the responsibility of the partner provider in the other countries.
I’m now seriously considering changing my provider, but need to be sure they would be better.
What experiences have other SFers had with internet reception outside France, whether with RM or another provider?
I’m with Bouygues and never have had a problem with the internet while roaming. All I need to be careful with is remembering that their Europe wide roaming promise includes the U.K. but not Switzerland.
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We both have reglo, and never had a problem either Uk or Spain.
I’ve used Réglo for roaming quite a lot in the UK and Belgium and have had no problems whatsoever during the past couple of years. I’ve also been pleasantly surprised at the generous data usage allowances for roaming and haven’t come even close to exhausting the allowances. From memory (and could easily be wrong) I thought Réglo use EE (??) in the UK and the network seems fairly comprehensive (I mainly accessed it in rural areas).
When abroad you can select a different carrier and see if it is better.
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How old is your phone? Is it capable of 4G / 5G?
I’m with Sosh (50go/mois in France, 15go/mois other countries). I’ve never had a problem with data connections in the UK, Germany, Italy or Spain.
You may find something useful in this thread: I did (though I can’t remember what)
It all depends on what roaming arrangement your home operator has with the roaming operator as it’s the later decides on what data rate you get and on which technology.
About 2 years. 4G, yes. UK is acceptable.
It’s the other countries where it hardly works, if at all.
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Weird. In that case it sounds like what @NotALot suggested, something different about the local provder’s offerings.
“Virtual” operators like Réglo might not have a roaming agreement with all the other operators, so you could have been given the “table scraps” option for data connectivity.
Having decent signal level is no guarantee of being able to set up a voice or data connection as the signal information comes from a beacon channel which only exists as a datum for mobile/network measurement reporting/handover management.
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Can we have subtitles please? 
The signal that phones read to tell you how many service bars you have is like the test card being broadcast on BBC1.
Just because you can see the girl and the clown doll playing noughts and crosses, it doesn’t mean you can see the 3:30 at Kempton on ITV1.
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Have you got data roaming selected in the phone settings?
Run a test app like Ookla or more comprehensive apps like Mastdata
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Slight topic drift … I gave up on Reglo because on the deal I had instead of having a €/min tarrif to call UK from FR, I had to buy a ‘top up’ which expired in 60 days. I think that was common across all the mobile deals.
International roaming always on.
I thought RM would only have one partner in another country, and it wouldn’t work with any other?
And, indeed, there’s no standardisation as to what the “bars” relate to in terms of signal strength anyway.
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I cannot confirm or deny that iThings have a “fudge factor” that can be set on a per operator basis to make their coverage look better than it actually is.
This may or may not have been turned up to 11 on the original 2G iPhone as honest reporting would have revealed how bobbins the GSM networks of a number of launch partners were.