It appears that following the sale of SFR over the weekend to Orange, Bouygues and Free that:-
More details will no doubt (hopefully!) follow for subscribers…..
There’s a lot of “resellers” owned by SFR that are included - Prixtel (mine) is off to Buoygues - Reglos off to Orange.
Fantastic news George1. Thanks for posting. Orange is the only network here so this gives me another choice.
Does anyone know what is happening to Red by SFR ?
I mentioned in my post above that it is being transferred to Free, although I called it SFR RED.
Orange, Free and Bouygues - perish the very thought - rush to try and reassure clients of SFR that prices might rise. An expert in the article below suggests that based on similar situations elsewhere in Europe, prices might rise 5-7% over 2 years. There is also a lengthy regulatory approval process (c19 months) which will undoubtedly consider the increased risk of price rises, given only 3 major competitors in the market.
Are there any mobile contracts out there that include free calls to UK landlines? Every so often I think about switching from my €19.99 a month mobile contract with Free. But none of the other operators seem to offer this, or do but only as part of a more expensive package.
It’s also handy not having to switch off data roaming when driving through Switzerland. Although maybe Switzerland is included in most mobile data deals now. I haven’t checked for a while.
I got fed up with SFR keep upping their prices so changed to FREE several years ago now and have kept the same tariff for the complete package all that time and still today. SFR are still involved though as they deal with emails and other things for FREE so really no change there for me.
I haven’t seen Lebara (SFR) mentioned in any of this.
You can be sure this isn’t going to help any of us. Just look at the prices in the US. I struggled to get 5go of data for $25/mo there.
Red SFR for €1 extra per month.
Not saying this will be very bad, is there a monopolies and mergers body in France?
This morning the reglo sim router is reporting 34 kbs down from our usual circa 20mbs.
Done to sell more fibre installs?
I read that Réglo was cracking down on use of their SIMs in routers as they’re intended for phone use.
They sell with 100gb of data then that is what you are allowed to use.
Probably about as good as Three’s promise in the UK that they would keep free of charge roaming across all their contracts after Brexit. That promise was good for about 6 - 9 months istr.
Not according to their Ts&Cs apparently, according to those around here who’ve received messages to stop.
That sort of technology blocking always struck me as unfair. Unfortunately they can detect which device the sim card is being used in.
The only reason I can think why they would do this is because their promise of the number of Gb isn’t really real. It’s much harder to use large quantities of Gb on a phone (traditionally) so their offer of large Gb’s they don’t expect you to use.
Most operators in the UK woke up to the fact that you can watch TV and vidéos on phones now too., some years ago. There might have even been a court case that somebody won saying they could use their data how they pleased. Continental opéerators are still fighting or like Corona says, trying to force you onto a broadband contract.
They are a service provider, they do not dictate if I put the sim in my phone or in my router. If I use all the data in my phone, how does that effect them compared to using the data allowance in my router?
Currently getting 70-100mbs on my lebara sim (uk) in the garden and only 45kbs on the reglo sim in the router with my external aerial, previously (yesterday)50-80mbs.
Networks don’t “detect” what hardware a SIM is using, the hardware tells the network what it is when it requests service via sending its IMEI and device capabilities.
I remember Three UK having some fun in their early days with students in halls of residence putting SIMs intended for phones into cheap Chinese USB modems which hadn’t been type approved and caused all sorts of issues with the local network.
As a Red SFR user (phone and fibre) I shall follow this with interest. I’ve always found Red to be acceptable and will hope that continues.