topic Moved abroad & want to keep UK no in EE app and website

Moved abroad & want to keep UK no

Copers38 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:11:34 GMT

I’ve moved abroad for what is likely to be long-term, but would like to keep my UK number BUT be able to use with data abroad - is this possible?! I have a Swiss phone, can I somehow get a dual SIM on it? Or would the best thing be to cancel my (very expensive) EE contract, which is up for renewal now anyway, and buy a cheap gifgaff SIM or the like?

Re: Moved abroad & want to keep UK no

Michael_D — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:14:53 GMT

Hi @Copers38

Welcome to the community.

Which model of phone are you using at the moment? Some phones would support dual SIM, so you may be able to maintain your Swiss SIM and the EE number in the phone.

When you say you'd like to use data, do you mean from the EE SIM or your Swiss one?

Michael

Re: Moved abroad & want to keep UK no

Chris_B — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:21:32 GMT

@Copers38 You’ll not be able to change networks while abroad should you choose to. the number migration will not happen over a roaming network.
You could change to a very cheap sim only contract on EE but you can not change it to a PAYG while abroad.