Talk:Belgium/@comment-88.128.80.11-20150622093821/@comment-94.224.43.38-20150826172220

Lycamobile is really bad in Belgium. They usually have a bad coverage even though they use the Mobistar network. You can get a Lycamobile sim in pretty much every night shop. Their 3G is slow. It's because the data goes all the way to London, that's why the latency is usually high (100 ms) and the speeds are low. Mobistar's 3G network isn't the best, but they're working on it, and it gets way better. The latency is usually lower than on Proximus and BASE. The download speeds are 3 to 5 Mbps in rural areas, while Proximus gets 7 to 10 and BASE 4 to 10. But Mobistar upgrades their towers everyday and now you can even get up to 25 Mbps on 3G. But if you have a 4G smartphone, Mobistar is definitely the best choice, their 4G network is amazing and you almost never leave the 4G network anymore (definitely not if you have a phone that can receive band 20 and 3). You often fall back to 3G on Proximus and BASE and that's what makes them require a good 3G network. Go to any Mobistar store, and ask for a prepaid card (internet on mobile). You can get them in stores like Colruyt or Albert Heijn too, I guess, but you need to call a specific code to get it from Dolfijn or Panter to Internet on Mobile. IOM is 4 GB for €15 on the best LTE network. Only phone calls are really expensive on Mobistar prepaid (30c/min.), but you could easily use a good VoIP app instead. Call the betaallijn (thoorn.nl) to cash back 50% of the call credit you didn't use (if you didn't call or text to a foreign number, you still have the full €15), you could get more then €7 back. So you paid pretty much €8 for 4GB.