https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/SIM-cards-Porting/Suitable-plan-for-visiting-UK-and-Ireland-for-3-weeks/m-p/1143353#M25340 <P>My wife and I will be arriving early June for 3 weeks visiting friends and family for 3 weeks.&nbsp; I did some research and I believe EE is considered to have the best network.&nbsp; We plan to get a couple of UK sims for our phones since New Zealand roaming charges would require us to take out a small mortgage.&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />I am sure it will be daunting trying to organise on arrival as it's a long couple of flights so I prefer to get myself organised in advance.&nbsp; What I'd like is advise on suitable sims where we can possibly share data (100GB plan looked good if it allowed sharing) and have UK numbers for our stay.<BR />We will also be in Ireland for a week visiting family so ideally we'd want the numbers to work there and ideally no rough roaming charges.<BR /><BR /></P> Sun, 29 May 2022 09:29:48 GMT pclewis 2022-05-29T09:29:48Z https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/SIM-cards-Porting/Suitable-plan-for-visiting-UK-and-Ireland-for-3-weeks/m-p/1143353#M25340 <P>My wife and I will be arriving early June for 3 weeks visiting friends and family for 3 weeks.&nbsp; I did some research and I believe EE is considered to have the best network.&nbsp; We plan to get a couple of UK sims for our phones since New Zealand roaming charges would require us to take out a small mortgage.&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />I am sure it will be daunting trying to organise on arrival as it's a long couple of flights so I prefer to get myself organised in advance.&nbsp; What I'd like is advise on suitable sims where we can possibly share data (100GB plan looked good if it allowed sharing) and have UK numbers for our stay.<BR />We will also be in Ireland for a week visiting family so ideally we'd want the numbers to work there and ideally no rough roaming charges.<BR /><BR /></P> Sun, 29 May 2022 09:29:48 GMT https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/SIM-cards-Porting/Suitable-plan-for-visiting-UK-and-Ireland-for-3-weeks/m-p/1143353#M25340 pclewis 2022-05-29T09:29:48Z https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/SIM-cards-Porting/Suitable-plan-for-visiting-UK-and-Ireland-for-3-weeks/m-p/1143360#M25341 <P><a href="https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2811293">@pclewis</a>&nbsp; Your only option is a PAYG sim these will have there own data allowance as you can not share data on PAYG.&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P> <P>make sure your phones are not network locked otherwise you’ll not get any service on the phone. You need to ask your network provider about this.&nbsp;</P> Sun, 29 May 2022 10:22:29 GMT https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/SIM-cards-Porting/Suitable-plan-for-visiting-UK-and-Ireland-for-3-weeks/m-p/1143360#M25341 Chris_B 2022-05-29T10:22:29Z