Excuse my essay of a reply.
I can only give you thoughts from my perspective, experience and needs.
My needs are 3 possibly 4 sims.
- For my phone - the priority being reliable calls, ideally Good 2G network for rural areas and 4G calling for cities.
- The wife’s phone - connectivity, she isn’t a huge data or calls user, ideally for redundancy on another network.
- My caravan tracker - 2G coverage, very low usage, don’t want to have to worry about disconnection because of the low usage.
- ?Tablet - currently we hotspot when away with the caravan, but my laptop is getting on and I might get a tablet that has a sim slot.
On both phones I want seamless roaming within Europe and a reasonable deal worldwide.
Obviously price is a factor or I would just use the main players.
Network reliability isn’t sufficient at the moment to rely on one provider (we spent a wet 2 weeks in October in the caravan in the Dales. Great EE 4g coverage until it failed then we had very patchy 2g for 2 days meaning no calls or data. Not the end of the world but annoying.) Therefore, because EE’s 2g coverage is secondary to their great 4g coverage, that means I use Vodafone (Voxi). The package with Zevvle works great for me because for £2 a month the tracker SIM is connected and my wife’s usage is minimal. When we hotspot we consider £2 a Gb very reasonable compared to the Caravan Club’s wifi charges.
Big picture: I think that Zevvle at least has to be in the ball park for price. CS, app control and transparency means it doesn’t have to be the cheapest. I think it has to include many features as standard. eg roaming (Vodafone basic doesn’t for example). Unlimited tethering. Multi SIM on one account. I find it a bit creepy that I can see my wifes usage - I don’t know if there is a simple fix for that. I would like DD rather than continous credit card.
I don’t think that any of the bundled proposals will make any difference to me but I can see it bringing in many new subscribers (assuming the right price) which is obviously important for the success of Zevvle.
PS I realise that Voxi doesn’t support 4G calling but after a years experience with BT which did I am in the situation of poor 4G coverage more often than poor 2G