Ireland

[victor]

has anyone who travels a lot between UK and Ireland tried exchanging a UK Sim for an Irish Sim in their phone to get round excessive roaming charges. I know it'd be messy having two different numbers depending on where you are but I reckon there could be quite a saving?

[nick]

Thank your lucky stars you don't live very close to the border of Northern Ireland/Southern Ireland.

Have heard stories like this.. a person is on O2 UK in NI and their phone latches on to O2 IE (same company, different country).

[nistudent]

Hi, not sure if you have sorted your sim problem, but here goes. I live on the North/South border and as a result in some parts of my house I have O2 UK coverage and in others only ROI coverage. The only way to get round roaming charges is for me to have 2 phones with a message on the voicemail of each giving the other number. Just for information Meteor in ROI is by far the cheapest and they have signed a roaming agreement in ROI so they now have national coverage (ROI). Hope this helps.