Talk:Greece/@comment-84.78.18.153-20180612115646/@comment-5.144.200.209-20180613085521

Sure, I just needed a second sim card : ) One for me, and one for my wife, we're not from Spain, we're Ukrainians. My spanish card was bought from simyo last year, as far as I remember they have FUP policy abroad though it's not clear if it's enforced or not, I can check this soon enough. Also I'm not sure if it's possible to top up simyo from abroad with non-spanish card. Otherwise it's excellent and I got 15gb literally for free from them (simyo) this summer. I wish I had another one.

Anyway, I got 4g working on cosmote sim. I went to germanos store and they were super unhelpful telling me some nonsense about no 4g network in the center of Rethymno though it was clear to me this is not true. Then I went to cosmote shop and they were unable to solve the problem at the shop and were telling me same nonsense about 4g not being supported on my device but they let me call technical support on 13888 for free (I guess you need to press 9 for English and then I just pressed some random numbers until I made it through to the operator). Operator spoke good English and was able to solve my problem: turns out 4g was not activated on this SIM by default!! I can't believe in 2018 they sell SIMs with 4g deactivated, what nonsense! I guessed as much yesterday and tried to send SMS "4G" to number 1333 but mobile prepaid internet card can't send SMS, so seems like the only way to call 13888 if you're in the same situation.

So, my final rating for cosmote improved a bit, I would give them 4 stars instead of 3. Network is good, in the center of Rethymno it was around 50 down/40 up which I guess is dual band CA, I'm pretty sure cosmote should have 3 band CA in major cities but I don't know if this is supported on my device. Also ping is two times as good (30-70 ms cf. 140-170ms) compared to my Spanish card, I guess when roaming all traffic goes through Spain that's why ping was so bad.