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Using mobile in Turkey

Shirley1974 — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 11:53:01 GMT

Can I use my mobile in Turkey?

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

Northerner — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 11:55:56 GMT

Hi @Shirley1974

You can but you need to ensure roaming is activated on your account. Text ROAMING to 150.

The costs are expensive because you're outside the EU. Please search the costs here:

https://ee.co.uk/help/mobile/roaming/roaming-costs

Thanks

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

XRaySpeX — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:05:44 GMT

Yes. As it is not in EU, you cannot use your usual UK allowances there but will need to pay the charges or buy roaming add-ons as set out in https://ee.co.uk/help/help-new/roaming-costs/countries/turkeyandnortherncyprus.

If you are on contract, remember to text ROAMING to 150 before you leave UK to ensure roaming is enabled on your account.

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:49:28 GMT

These EE charges are disgusting, GiffGaff and other networks charge you nothing to use your phone in any other country.

It doesn’t cost EE a penny and the charges are absolutely unjustifiable

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

bristolian — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:12:41 GMT

@L33MUA wrote:

It doesn’t cost EE a penny

Can you provide verifiable evidence of this?

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

XRaySpeX — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:27:38 GMT

@L33MUA wrote:

It doesn’t cost EE a penny

It does! They pay money to their roaming partner networks.

EE has no presence in Turkey.

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:29:45 GMT

O2, Giffgaff, Tesco, Asda, BT, Virgin, I.D, Lebara, Lycamobile, Plusnet, Smarty, Superdrug mobile,

ALL charge nothing to use your data or minutes/texts internationally.

EE, Three, Vodafone, Sky, TalkTalk & Voxi are the only ones who charge.

with Sky being only £2 per day to use ALL your contracted services.

Thats 11 providers that don’t charge, and only 6 that do, with EE being the most expensive. “Exploiting Customers”.

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

bristolian — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:31:50 GMT

All operators have different qualities of network and different marketing strategies - in the same way that EE have never competed on price alone, GiffGaff and many of the other MVNO's you've quoted would never compete on network quality alone.

You still haven't provided any evidence of EE's wholesale roaming costs being zero.

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:44:53 GMT

Either way, 11 Main UK providers DO NOT charge you, 6 of them do, EE being the most expensive.

EE charges are extortionate and disproportionate to the actual costs.

I was Just Quoted over £70 in costs for minimal calls, texts & data usage for 4 days.

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

XRaySpeX — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:53:16 GMT

@L33MUA : Viz your contention that O2 is free to roam in Turkey:

BT & PN are likwise.

Which puts the rest of your "free to loam" list as highly suspect!

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:02:54 GMT

EE’s Quality is certainly not something to bring to the table, it’s pretty dismal compared to BT Mobile, of which I only switched from due to them promising to match the service having become part of the BT Group. EE certainly has some ground to make up to compare even slightly. Not even yet mentioned the signal issues and lack of compared to BT/Giffgaff.

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:54:56 GMT

They charge you to operate in the E.U pal, 80% of other networks are free, they charged me £2.29 per day, my partners Giffgaff was free, my sons BT mobile, also free.

Like I said, EE has a long way to go!

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

XRaySpeX — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:03:37 GMT

@L33MUA : Off-topic! OK, now let's get into a argy-bargy about EU roaming when up to now we've been discussing Turkey where you have been proven blatantly wrong! Not your pal!

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:53:22 GMT

Ok PAL😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:37:41 GMT

Absolutely, you willing to pay for my time considering you’re too lazy to do your own leg work.

Re: Using mobile in Turkey

L33MUA — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:44:34 GMT

Quick answer is YES you can use your EE phone in Turkey, but it’s going to cost you a lot, easy option is-

Your EE device is open all networks, many uk providers are A LOT cheaper, I have two numbers running concurrently on my iPhone 14, one EE and one GiffGaff, these run side by side without issue’s, EE is eSIM, GiffGaff is in the sim tray…. I now turn the EE Sim Off when holidaying as the basic roaming charges are a rip off, giffgaff doesn’t charge you for E.U Roaming, plus it’s cheaper to use in turkey.

Or, buy a SIM card on holiday and divert your normal number to the temporary one.