PrePaid Europe (UK Three) sim Card 2GB/5GB/12GB Data+Unlimited Minutes+Unlimited Texts for 30 Days with Free Roaming/USE in 71 Destinations Including Europe,South America and Australia (12GB Data)

Got this sim card for my phone and my wife's phone. Simply follow the instructions as they are posted and everything should work just fine. You won't be able to call US/Canada numbers by direct dialing from your UK3 phone number (the one that is assigned to this sim card) unless you add more money to your account, but then these sim cards aren't meant for that. For less than a $1/day I had uninterrupted 4G data in 4 different European countries. For my phone, I changed out my PagePlus sim card for this UK3 sim card the day we were traveling from NC to Oslo. Restarted the phone and within 5 minutes had text confirmations from UK3 that the phone was good to go. Turned off my WiFi and I was able to browse the internet, pull email, and place WhatsApp calls using the Roaming Data in the US. Now the fun part. Our flight never made it out due to weather. Had to redo our flights, go home, and fly out the next day. During the extra 26 hours that we were in the US my phone always had data connectivity. I was able to consume data and use all the apps that required them without issue. The nice thing is that I was able to place calls using my VOIP home phone through my mobile phone using the data connection both while in the US (thanks to UK3's roaming agreement with AT&T & T-Mobile) and in Europe. Once we landed in Oslo, I switched off airplane mode and within 5 minutes had a text message from UK3 saying that Norway was in their roaming network and everything worked! I could place and receive phone calls & texts (to/from European numbers) & use 4G data! However, things only worked for a few hours. Eventually the data stopped working and the troubleshooting began. You can try restarting your phone, but that didn’t consistently solve the problem for me. What did work was to place a call to the UK3 automated account line (333 I believe). As soon as the call went through, magically the data started to work again. This issue repeated in each of the 4 countries we visited, but at different lengths of time from the original “Hello” text message. Sometimes it happened in an hour, sometimes after 4 or 5. But each time I made the call, the phone started working just fine (come to think of it, I have to do that sometimes with PagePlus after my account automatically renews – but not always as was the case with the UK3 card). I kept track of how much data both my wife and I used and neither of us went over 4 GB for the entire 4 weeks. We used Wifi when we could, but for the first 1.5 weeks in Norway we only had mobile data. We did a bunch of WhatsApp videos, pictures, calls and lots of internet (though not NetFlix) as well as constant Google Maps GPS navigation and still used less than 1GB per week so the 12GB was a bit of overkill but well worth the peace of mind. Connectivity was great in all the places we visited including way out in the country well above the arctic circle in Norway. In fact data coverage was much better and more consistent than where I live in the country in NC!

I bought this specifically because it allowed me to activate it in the US before traveling. It activated fine. Once I got to the UK, I could not connect to mobile data or make phone calls. I ended up buying a SIM card from a different vendor when I got to the UK. If you are going overseas, buy a SIM card once you get there. There are kiosks and vending machines for SIM cards at most airports.

I purchased two of these cards for my wife and I to use during two weeks in Italy. The data plan begins once the cards are activated. I activated them at home in the USA a couple of days before I left simply to make sure they worked. They will give you a UK phone number with a country code of +44. Activation in our unlocked iPhones was very easy. I simply removed our AT&T SIM card and inserted the new card. The carrier in Europe was "WIND." We had 12G of data each and did not come close to using all of it over the course of two weeks. Just remember to give your new UK phone number to those people who really need to reach you if needed. PROS: Activation was easy. I did not need to register the SIM with the new carrier. Worked very well in Venice, Florence, Tuscany, and Rome (4G all of the time). Coverage was spotty in Positano (Amalfi Coast; 3G or Extended most of the time). PRO TIP - The card is a UK phone number with a +44 country code. Italy is a +39 country code. Any number you text/dial in Italy (restaurant, tour company etc) must be done with the country code first. PRO TIP - The USA is a +1 country code. Any phone number you text/dial in the USA must have the +1 first. For years, I have not entered contacts into my phone with the +1 first. If I sent a friend a text back in the States, I had to remember to go into my contacts first and add the +1 in front of their number prior to sending the text. If you get a send text failure, check this first. CONS: You cannot stream with this card. I was on vacation so I was not trying to stream Netflix. However, if that is something you are going to do, you can't do it with this card. In addition, it can't be used as a hotspot. I was not trying to do either of these so it wasn't a real problem. The only real con that I had was that in Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy, the coverage was 3G or worse. A few times it switched from WIND 3G to Extended (Roaming). When it does this, texting became a problem. Google Maps (for walking directions) still worked but it was slowed down when it switched to Extended. Random Tip - I purchased unlocked (not tied to a specific carrier) iPhones direct from Apple. This made this card very easy to use. Basically change the SIM card and it worked great. I THINK you can request your carrier to unlock your phone temporarily but I'm not 100% sure. It would be worth finding out. Knowing what I know now, I will never intentionally purchase a locked phone again. Another random tip - In the USA, I find the WAZE app works better than any other navigation app. I like WAZE much better than Google maps. However, we did a TON of walking in Italy. Google maps with walking directions worked very well with this card (even in Positano). However, Google Maps did screw me over one day while driving. I opened my WAZE App to hopefully get me to where I was actually going and it worked like a charm. Thanks WAZE. I hope you found this review helpful. Normally, I don't take the time to write reviews on Amazon. However, when I was considering buying this card, the description said it worked in Italy but no one had written a review about it who had actually used it in Italy. Well, here is that review. I hope you have safe travels.

Before I explain why I only gave 1 star and why it was a waste of money, I would like to point out that I have been using the prepaid SIM cards from Three in the past for travel to Europe and they always worked great. This time it was a failure from the start. 1. I received the card and on the envelope was a sticker with a link suggesting to go on their site to set up the activation for a set time period. The link did not work but took me to a failure to load message. I tried to visit the site without the activation piece of the link but could not navigate to the suggested part of the site this way either. 2. I put in the SIM card in my unlocked phone before I left the US as I had done in the past. I did receive a text message confirming it was active although I could not locate the new phone number (usually it was easily identified after I installed the SIM card in previous times). 3. I arrived in Germany and could tell that I was now linked with the local provider o2 but when I tried to place a call I kept getting the same message that the caller on the other line could not be reached. I tried several numbers as well as several number combinations, with and without the country code, with or without zeros of the local code, etc. 4. Data worked for a little while, and I would like to mention that data was always an important factor as Three offers generous data packages compared to other companies for a great price and never failed in the past. This time the data stopped working at a usage less than 300 MB, considering I purchased 12GB for 30 days. The next day I purchased a new SIM card from a local provider and used that for the remainder of my trip. Needless to say I was beyond disappointed and it is highly unlikely I will purchase another SIM card from Three again. The reason why I gave 1 star is because the SIM cards I purchased from them in the past worked always great.

This prepaid SIM card worked in Iceland, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, and Belgium. I used it on my iPhone to get directions for everything I needed...such as hotels, gas stations, meeting places, etc. during the 2 months I was touring the listed countries. The speed was good for our needs. In Monaco, getting locations and tapping into the internet was awful. We had to cut our tour short because we could not navigate in that small country. Otherwise, it was great for other parts of Europe. I did purchase a Vodaphone SIMs card in London. It worked well in the UK, but as soon as you leave UK, you need to upgrade to a different package to cover the country you are touring outside of the UK. That is a pain and really becomes expensive. I could not even make phone calls with that UK SIMs card. So, if you want something that will work while traveling, I believe this product will take the stress out of your travels. You don't have to wait until you arrive at a country to buy their SIMs card. It may work for the area you are in, but if you are traveling to multiple countries, good luck. I will purchase this again when I need to travel in Europe in the future.

Perfect for what I needed. My sister and I went around Europe (Spain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, and London) for 30 days. We had our own phones on airplane mode that would work for texting and FaceTime when we had Wi-Fi, so I needed this for emergency texts and google maps to get place to place. I put the sim in an old i-phone 5. I turned off the data unless I was using it for those two things because I was scared to run out of data, but I never did. The calls worked well in London, but I found that I didn’t have much luck with outgoing call outside of the UK. It did work when people tried to call me though. It was really useful to have for directions and to look up restaurants and activities while we were out. Easy set up and overall did the job. Great deal when my other option was paying $400 for the month plan with my phone company for international data.

Great product ! We used it all over England, Barcelona, Venice, Texas and California with no issues whatsoever. I used it primarily for Google maps for over a week in addition to messenger and Facebook and it barely used up one or two gb. After two weeks in Europe, I had over half the data left and that was even after having my kids try to burn through it when I tethered them to my phone. Overall a wonderful value and great product well worth the money. HOWEVER, please bear in mind you can't just simply pop in the sim and have it work right away based on my personal experience. I used it on an unlocked Galaxy A8 from Japan and no issues. At first it seemed like it wasn't working as it showed full bars for mobile data but was not connecting online. Turned out I needed to reset APN settings which you can find on their site . Kind of tedious but for the awesome connection we got it was worth it

Unfortunately I was probably sucked in by the price. Which is good. Nothing else about using this sim for EU really worked all that well, although I'm sure if we're in the UK only it might have been better. We're enjoying a long stay in France. More than a month. Once you activate the sim, you are directed to download their app for future "top ups". You cannot top up thru the app without a non US zip code (postal code). So they give you an outside provider to get around that. Seemed like an acceptable solution, although it was 50% more for the same data plan. Until you try to pay with a credit card, which require a confirmation code. Texted to our US phone, which.... Don't work here. Maybe it's not fair to lay THAT detail on "Three", but it's still an added complication. A few other fun facts.... You cannot phone home (if you're in the US). You cannot text home (again US). Nor can you receive texts, although probably you can receive phone calls. If you ask some one in the EU (except the UK) to call or text you, it costs THEM money. I will admit to some bad assumptions on my part, but I think their marketing is wildly misleading. Do NOT buy this sim card unless you're traveling less than a month, have no friends to talk to anyway, or have a UK address and credit card. It has been a waste of money given the amount time spent to learn what you are not clearly told at the outset, and the inability to "top up" our plan. OH, the hotspot worked great so we could iMessage from wife's phone.... At least until our prepaid month was up and we could not "top up".