VIRGIN MOBILE Awful service and dreadful technical back up.
VIRGIN MOBILE IRELAND
I moved to a VN sim plan over a year ago and had no problem in Ireland or with roaming until …..2nd September last in London when all access to a network stopped, no msgs, calls or data.
The advice (finally) was to turn off Automatic network selection (why?) and try each network manually. The 4th worked. I lost half a day of my time getting resolved.
All good I thought until ….i got off the ferry in Bilbao on the 14th September with same problem. Hours of searching for help (chat only works for TV, landline & broadband, and 1908 does not work when away) I finally phoned (a charge call!), and after 30-40 mins the technical help agent couldn’t resolve. He raised a case and promised it would be given priority, but it was never resolved. Again I wasted a whole lot of my time in vain - throughout the time away I had to rely on Wi-Fi and offline maps when I should have had full cover and 32gb roaming.
Today, 22nd Sept, I arrived back in Ireland to a perfect connection.
Note that my husband’s Eir service had no problem at all connecting to networks and roaming.
Very fed up and will switch provider asap