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Been offline for a few days as I have been changing my comms provider for France. Up until now I have been using UK O2 account roaming (which is free roaming to a fair use limit) and a Pay as you go data SIM from the Spanish provider Movistar.
What I wanted to get to was a French provider and O2 on my iPhone (it has eSim and physical SIM slot) and a data SIM on my old (2017) iPad (has only SIM slot) to act as a hub to be left onboard. Browsed around and got what I thought was a good deal from SFR for an eSIM phone and data contract and a SIM data only contract. Had the SIM and all the paperwork delivered to my friend's house in Gruissan (which was a trial in itself as the phone contracts and direct debits are in my name at my new house in Pézenas.)
Tried to activate the E-SIM in the iPhone and after multiple tries, it finally worked but, if I tried to switch back to O2, SFR has overwritten O2 settings rather than creating new. O2 loads new setting which overwrites SFR and so on…
Decide to leave it on O2 for the moment and try the data SIM in the iPad. No amount of trying will get it to activate. Decide to try it in the cheap Nokia I bought in Spain when my iPhone was damaged, Works first time.
So today I got a taxi from Port de Canet, where we are moored, into Perpignan where a very nice chap called Alain in the SFR ‘boutique’ sorted me out by guiding me how to get O2 to activate on my eSIM and SFR on a physical SIM and sold me a little dongle by TP-Link to put the dataSIM in so the iPad and everything else can connect to it.
He could offer no explanation as to why the SFR eSIM didn't work properly but declared the iPad too old, should be in a museum!
The internet is very wonderful in some ways but you cant beat physical contact sometimes
What I wanted to get to was a French provider and O2 on my iPhone (it has eSim and physical SIM slot) and a data SIM on my old (2017) iPad (has only SIM slot) to act as a hub to be left onboard. Browsed around and got what I thought was a good deal from SFR for an eSIM phone and data contract and a SIM data only contract. Had the SIM and all the paperwork delivered to my friend's house in Gruissan (which was a trial in itself as the phone contracts and direct debits are in my name at my new house in Pézenas.)
Tried to activate the E-SIM in the iPhone and after multiple tries, it finally worked but, if I tried to switch back to O2, SFR has overwritten O2 settings rather than creating new. O2 loads new setting which overwrites SFR and so on…
Decide to leave it on O2 for the moment and try the data SIM in the iPad. No amount of trying will get it to activate. Decide to try it in the cheap Nokia I bought in Spain when my iPhone was damaged, Works first time.
So today I got a taxi from Port de Canet, where we are moored, into Perpignan where a very nice chap called Alain in the SFR ‘boutique’ sorted me out by guiding me how to get O2 to activate on my eSIM and SFR on a physical SIM and sold me a little dongle by TP-Link to put the dataSIM in so the iPad and everything else can connect to it.
He could offer no explanation as to why the SFR eSIM didn't work properly but declared the iPad too old, should be in a museum!
The internet is very wonderful in some ways but you cant beat physical contact sometimes
