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Lycamobile PAYG SIM card for low-cost domestic and international calls

Under: Hand On Reviews Date: September 30th, 2008

Lycamobile has launched their Pay-as-you-go SIM Card that allows the user to call the world for as little as 4p per minute and great introductory deals which include 0p per minute calls on Lycamobile to Lycamobile within the UK.

Furthermore Lycamobile is offering additional credit top-ups of £1 Free on £5 top-up, £2.50 Free on £10 and £6 Free on £20.

Lycamobile’s PAYG SIM brings the user international calling to Australia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Poland and Pakistan with calls starting at as little as 4p per minute; and with in excess of 85,000 retail outlets across the UK.

Lycamobile was originally introduced in the Netherlands in 2006 and has now come to the UK with their prepaid low-cost, high quality SIM card. Check them out at www.lycamobile.co.uk for more information.

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17 Comments»

    September 30th, 2008 | 5:34 pmInesa

    register soon as posible

    December 1st, 2008 | 8:07 pmmajid

    i like to register my sim card

    December 3rd, 2008 | 1:45 pmAsh

    Lyca mobile UK web site is dead.

    January 10th, 2009 | 4:09 pmCellhire International SIM Card

    Why not considering renting from Cellhire. As well as a general international SIM card, they also rent local SIM cards for a large number of countries saving up to 70% on roaming costs.

    January 16th, 2009 | 8:36 pmMary

    You should try webtel.mobi - much cheaper and no sim

    March 26th, 2009 | 12:59 pmolusolace

    Your service is good,why not go on pay monthly bases.I need U on contract,thanks.

    April 17th, 2009 | 5:50 pmtaj

    why is the free credit stoped?

    April 20th, 2009 | 11:09 pmfero

    lycmobile is cheating and telling lies to the people i have lycmobile and they changed the rate without telling anyone and they cancel the offer without telling anyone and when i called the Customer services to complain they put me on hold for more than 16 min and then hung up the phone without saying anything

    April 25th, 2009 | 1:08 pmAlex

    I had the bad idea to move to Lyca 10 days ago and today I am already moving back to my old company!! Bad reception, very rude and incompetent customer service, messages sometimes arrive a day later! very poor service overall, think about it twice and carefully.

    May 31st, 2009 | 3:39 pmMutel Kerr

    New user to Lycamobile to reduce international cost to the West Indies

    May 31st, 2009 | 3:41 pmMutel Kerr

    Looking forward to reduce cost of calls

    June 1st, 2009 | 9:54 pmmohmmed

    very very very very rude and incompetent customer service, messages sometimes arrive a day later! very poor service overall, think about it twice and carefully.

    June 1st, 2009 | 10:01 pmmoody

    rubbish network , very rubbish customer service

    June 11th, 2009 | 10:00 pmEricBoy

    Charged totally wrong rates when roaming in Turkey. Refunded difference fine 1st time. Told to contact them again if it continued. It has!Since then 2 phone calls and 1 email and still no refunds. Can not recommend as customer service and billing is poor.

    August 5th, 2009 | 11:26 amNat Pagayonan

    Thank God I didn’t immediately transfer my O2 number to Lyca. This Lycamobile is rubbish. I was using an O2 your country PAYG sim which I load £30/month to get 200min free international calls to more than 200 countries. Then I tried the Lyca sim. I loaded the Lyca sim (bought from 99P store) with £20. I was attracted by their flat rate of 10p/10p call/text rates to my country and free call/text to another Lyca mobile which my wife is also using here in UK. They always cut my call after less than 2 minutes and when I try to call again to any number the network is already busy with chance to call or ven text at all. Tried calling their customer service number many times but I only wasted time, it’s either the netwrok is busy or nobody answers. I’m not surprised actually how bad the customer service is knowing that Lyca is using the Orange network and is probably owned by Orange group. Two years ago, I moved from Orange monthly paid subscriber to O2 PAYG Your Country Sim because of very bad experience with Orange despite of the fact that I was paying direct debit like £80 per month for all my calls. This Lyca Mobile is so ambitious to get the most number of ethnic subscribers in UK and yet the service and signal coverage are rubbish. Now I have to try the Lebara and Nomi sims if they have the same. My wife is just waiting to use all her Lyca load and will also try the Lebara or Nomi sim. Stay away from this rubbish Lyca company. They are a waste of money and time with worst netwrok availability, customer sevice and signal coverage.

    August 5th, 2009 | 11:34 amNat Pagayonan

    Thank God I didn’t immediately transfer my O2 number to Lyca. This Lycamobile is rubbish. I was using an O2 Your Country PAYG sim which I load £30/month to get 200min free international calls to more than 200 countries. Then I tried the Lyca sim. I loaded the Lyca sim (bought from 99P store) with £20. I was attracted by their flat rate of 10p/10p call/text rates to my country and free call/text to another Lyca mobile which my wife is also using here in UK. They always cut my call after less than 2 minutes and when I try to call again to any number the network is already busy with NO chance to call or even text. I tried calling their customer service number many times but I only wasted my time, it’s either the network is busy or nobody answers. I’m not surprised actually how bad the Lyca customer service is knowing that Lyca is using the Orange network and is probably owned by Orange group. Two years ago, I moved from Orange monthly paid subscriber to O2 PAYG Your Country Sim because of very bad experience with Orange despite of the fact that I was paying direct debit like £80 per month for all my calls. This Lyca Mobile is so ambitious to get the most number of ethnic subscribers in UK and yet the service and the network availability are rubbish. Now I have to try the Lebara and the Nomi sims if they are the same as Lyca. My wife is just waiting to use all her Lyca load and will also try the Lebara or Nomi sim. Stay away from this rubbish Lyca company. They are a waste of money and time with worst network availability and customer sevice.

    August 9th, 2009 | 7:37 pmEricBoy

    Update from June 11th. Back in Turkey. Even worse now. Again incorrectly charged to make calls. Receiving calls is costing roughly 3 times what is advetised. Cannot call customer service on advertised 322 number, so used 0207 132 0322 as have done before which was free. This wiped out my remaining balance at a rate of over £1 per minute!!! So now can not phone customer service free to request refund due to their utterly rubbish billing system. As soon as I’m back in the UK I will BIN THIS SIM.

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