New Ford Kuga 5g WIFI

[MartinClift]

I will soon be getting a new car that comes with 5G as standard. The first 3 months of unlimited is free.

After three months, I can continue, but I need to pay for the service through Vodaphone!! Does anyone know if an extra EE sim would work? I have asked Ford and Vodaphone, and no one appears to know!!

Any help would be much appreciated! 

Martin

[bristolian]

Only Ford can advise on the spec of their cars, and they presumably have an agreement with VodaFone to provide SIMs.

To know whether any other operator would work, you'd need to know how the SIM is embedded and whether the car's software is network-specific.

[Minkey1]

Can only speak to my experience. Volvo. Came with 1yr free user SIM from Vodaphone. As I regard Vodaphone on a par with EE (ie, dreadful) I took the SIM out and gave it away. I didn’t even want to deal with them for free, and from the Volvo forum I’d gathered their renewal price was extortionate. Again, based on advice, I put in a 2yr SIM from 3, about £20 IIRC, and it worked fine. Renewed it last year. Volvo also put in an embedded SIM, for specific, limited functions only. Owners can’t touch it.

But that’s Volvo. If Ford are charging you after a limited free period, you should gave the right to use a provider of your own choice. But you’d have to check with Ford.

Good luck.

[Minkey1]

Looking at my Amazon orders, it was a 4G card, capped at 24Gb over the 2 yrs, but included roaming. No registration faff, just put in the card pin on the car screen, and the internet symbol came up. For serious streaming, we use CarPlay anyway, but for the Volvo nav and their limited range of apps (Spotify and a few forgettable others) it's fine. Look for a data only SIM, and join a Kuga forum. 

Our XC40 goes back this yr. Would be interested to hear how you get on with the car.