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Re: international data
The horrible person comment was definitely not aimed at you MSF it was certainly aimed at me. Oh well. We see this every day on this forum, and you have the patience of a saint ! Yet again, we have people buying a Smarty SIM card, because of its cheap price, without doing any research into the service and how it works, overseas, and blaming smarty for their own ineptitude! We repeatedly see the following : 1, I can’t set up my router, as I want to use a mobile phone service as a replacement for mobile broadband. Smarty of course specifically advise against this, certainly for sustained periods of time. 2, My phone doesn’t work abroad, I have no clue how to set up it up, but I am going to blame Smarty ! (Smarty need to change SIM card packaging, to let people know that the APN for use abroad needs to be set to ‘mob.am.net’) 3, I can’t get the adult content bar lifted. 4, I can’t activate the Smarty SIM card in my Tesla, Jaguar, Mobile Home, Touring Caravan. 5, There is no signal on Smarty where I live / work / socialise, I didn’t bother to check the coverage in the places where I need it, due to my own ineptitude, but I am so disappointed in Smarty ! Again, the horrible person comment was not aimed at you, St. MSF of Smarty, but me 😉2.6KViews0likes0CommentsRe: international data
Well done MSF ! You continually answer these questions from ‘numpties without a clue’, who must surely struggle in daily life ! The level of ineptitude I see on this forum and others is astounding ! Some people really would be better off with tin cans and a piece of string, certainly when overseas, having no clue to set their phones up for use abroad, with a simple APN change ! I still maintain that its value for money pricing is Smarty’s achillies heel, as it attracts clueless people.2.7KViews0likes0CommentsRe: smarty support
Spot on MSF Also, stating the obvious, a marina means boats, lots of lovely craft that have GPS, radar, radios, etc and also presumably lots of metal causing the faraday cage effect. I don’t know of course, but wouldn’t be at all surprised if the boats and their communication decides plus fixtures and fittings are degrading the signal / coverage for Neilrlu-329746 , and wonder if people on other networks are experiencing the same issues, network congestion not withstanding.1.4KViews1like1CommentRe: european use in a car
Smarty is a no frills mobile phone network and they, and other networks come to that, don’t support set up in cars and other bits of tech. You should now research how much data your SIM will use in France - If you plan to use it for navigation / maps in France, it will burn through 2 GB very quickly - As Smarty plans can be changed every 30 days, whilst you are away, I would change to a plan that allows you the full use of the 12 GB roaming allowance, but even then, depending on the length of your trip and how much driving you will do, even 12 GB may not be enough - Google Maps, Apple Maps and Waze are data heavy applications. You may need to get a French SIM card to supplement the 12 GB of data allowed by Smarty or use a French SIM card for the entirety of your trip. 2 GB won’t last long.1.4KViews1like0CommentsRe: 2G cannot be disabled?
I have helped many people on this forum, having used Smarty in the past. Have you ever thought that, because Smarty have never utilised a 2G network, that’s why you cannot block access to a 2G network that has never existed, and, in the unlikely event that you go abroad and use a rare network that is still using 2G, then you will be able to block it ? No, I doubt you have. You can probably block O2, as mentioned in your initial post, as they still use a 2G network.8.9KViews0likes1CommentRe: No service on Eurotunnel
Duh ! Dont be a completely unlikeable nasty twit ! This is the community forum, none of us here work for Smarty, so if you’re so keen to get an answer, reach out to Smarty directly ! The answer, as you have already been told, is that Smarty provide a no frills basic service. Smarty isn’t even responsible for the network coverage, Three is. The issue with sarcastic little jokers of people like you is that you buy a Smarty SIM card, attracted by its value for money price, and expect it to perform like a Ferrari, when you have in fact bought a Ford Fiesta ! We have a choice to use the mobile service that best fits our needs, which in your case is obviously not Snarfy ! Do a google search on “the best network for monosyllabic sarcastic clueless people” and see what it suggests !2.2KViews1like0CommentsRe: SMARTY sent the SIM card to La La Land
See my reply on your othe post - As this is the Smarty community forum, and myself and others are not employees of Smarty, I can gleefully say that your problem seems to be that you're probably not very bright, one of those people where everything is always someone else's fault ! Wouldnt surprise me in the slightest that you typed in the wrong address, or the royal mail have been late in delivering your SIM card. You also dont appear to have the mental capacity to contact Smarty and ask for a replacement SIM card. Ah well, off you pop, at least you will be saving bandwidth for the rest of us !5.6KViews0likes5CommentsRe: no signal
This is the Smarty community forum, we are customers, we dont work for Smarty. For a refund, you need to contact Smarty via webchat. I agree with MSF - Why on earth did you top up with £58 ?! Also, you could not have checked the overage where you are, on the edge of Canford Heath, with large swathes of countryside and the jurassic forest surrounding you, three / smarty is not likely to provide a good service, and other networks may be not much better either.4.9KViews0likes4Comments