Mutter Bundle #37
30 Apr 2026 15:25
A Slice Mobile comunity post. A small suggestion. Separating account status from SIM status.
A quick suggestion, if I may. At the moment, it seems (please correct me if I'm wrong) that once you port your number out of Slice (which I just did), there is no straightforward way to rejoin using the same login, such as via a Google account as was the case for me. Once logged back in, all I see is that my account has been closed. To be fair, if I had to guess, I'd say that manually contacting the Support Team would probably allow me to reopen it and rejoin on a new plan on the same account. But in an ideal world, I shouldn't really have to do that. Honestly, a "Rejoin" button waiting for me when I log back into my Slice account, would, or at least might go a long way. At the end of the day, wouldn't that be one of the things that encourages customers to come back?
Essentially, I think there should a disconnected SIM shouldn't = an account closed for good. Deleting an account for good should be a separate process. A customer should still be able to create or hold an active Slice account even without an active SIM, something that, in my opinion, networks such as giffgaff have got just right.
I apologise in advance if I am "bashing" Slice (well, it's never really bashing, always a friendly suggestion, but still) for the absence of something that isn't actually absent. In which case, sackcloth and ashes for me, I suppose.
30 Apr 2026 19:10
Pitlochry, Scotland.
30 Apr 2026 19:38
A giffgaff comunity post. Two and 1/2 pence of yours truly on Klarna Mobile and the like.
Ah, those Gigs-powered mobile plans, their name is legion. Revolut Mobile, Zable Mobile, Klarna Mobile...
I mean...
Personally, I probably wouldn't port my number to any of them, but I could see them working well as a combo alongside something like giffgaff. giffgaff for calls (since it's very much so-so for data) and Revolut/Klarna/Zable for data, as a SIM I wouldn't mind ditching at short notice without worrying about the porting-out malarkey.
If the Revolut Mobile experience is anything to go by, there was (last time I checked) an absence of any clear pricing structure (I mean, how much is roaming in... spins the Wheel of Randomness... the Philippines?), and an absence of a streamlined process for restoring a lost eSIM. And very much the feeling of a beta-stage product in general.
My understanding is that Gigs (MVNO enabler behind Revolut, Zable, Klarna and the like) is essentially a white-label MVNO solution designed to help virtually any business spin up their own mobile offering.
I'm not against it as such, it just seems like at the moment it is very much prone to the odd teething issue here and there.
But as a second, cheap(ish) data SIM on the Vodafone network... why not?
https://community.giffgaff.com/d/34570230-new-competition/11
01 May 2026 00:31
Queen Street Station. Glasgow, Scotland.
