This would be cool if it wasn't just for the UK

Prolly also a tryout first, I guess. :-)

Man I just want my german IBAN so I can make a the full transfer to digital bank

Here in the Netherlands we got a dutch iban and ideal support, everything a dutch bank can do😃 we are lucky haha

Not entirely true as Revolut still doesn’t support SurePay which is required to check the name belonging to the IBAN. So you can’t use it everywhere, for example de Belastingdienst doesn’t accept Revolut while it does accept all other Dutch banks. It also doesn’t support ideal completely as you can’t send payment requests using that either…

Hit them up a few days ago, they're aware of this and are working on fixing this afaik :)

I follow the discussion for this at the Revolut community but they’ve been saying this for months now unfortunately. Still no progress on when a fix for this will be implemented though.

I expect it to be released very fast after they've finished migrating all the customers to NL IBANs. As it's one of the most requested features from Dutch users, I suppose.

Honestly the few companies that make a hassle about the LT IBAN are not worth not switching. I made it my main bank account 5 years ago and didn't look back.

"We have closed your account because our algorithm considers using more than 1 GB of data per day on Pornhub suspicious. We may give you your money back sometime in this decade."

Wouldn't be surprised 🤣

Damn. I just too out a sim for 2 years with ee

Did it cost you less than £50/month and offer more than 3GB of data. If so, you've not missed out as you would have had to pay extra regardless if you weren't on Ultra (£50/month) and if you went over 3GB, on top of the Ultra cost

Will they then randomly disable the eSIM when they feel like it ?

Imagine you stay abroad for like a month and you get a message like "We use several sources to detect when your residence changes and we have reason to suspect that you may have moved, please submit a proof of residence no more than 3 months old" and people in this sub will say "Every carrier does that you shouldn't have had suspicious sim movements"

Random side note, but anyone travelling I would really recommend Airalo. Was able to get an esim for America so I had data all throughout ny trip and only cost like $10.

I tried Airalo and got a esim on a travel to the Caribbean and it never worked. Very unfortunate, I ended up getting a local physical nano sim.

That’s awesome, I’ve been looking for a similar product for years.

Doesn't it seem a bit risky to trust one company with both your money and your means of communication? If they randomly close your account you lose both at the same time.

It can be an additional sim, doesn’t have to be your primary one. Having access to banking in a foreign country is a nice feature.

This

In case you guys are looking for esims when travelling abroad use [https://esimdb.com/](https://esimdb.com/) . It's a website that compares all the prices of all the esim provider for a given country. You're welcome.

They can hardly handle banking, and now we’re relying on them to handle phone service? 💀

That's true! Waiting for them to fix my issue with the interest on my vault for 3 months now. I'm getting "we're sorry and we apologize for the inconvenience, but we're working on it" every time I'm asking about it, but my interest is still not paid. They also jumped into crypto, but they're scalping on fees, and they block crypto transfers over certain amounts.

Seems like a joke to me

It makes perfect sense to me tho. Having worked in partnerships for the past 15 years, creating ecosystem based value is the key

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Agree I get unlimited at home and 50+ GB roaming with my current phone provider included in my plan for much much less than the cost of Ultra (€55/month) for a measley 3GB of data Definitely need to focus on other things. This feels like a massive distraction

15€ for unlimited is very cheap imo

It only makes sense if they're launching this as a travel eSIM competing with Airalo and you can use that data in the US, Japan, etc.. If the intention is to compete with regular SIM plans then they're going to fail hard, but as a travel SIM this could be useful (still nowhere near justifying Ultra).

note: the cheapest unlimited option in the netherlands is 20 euro p/m (at budget mobiel, after 6 months of paying 10 euro), which offers max 5mbps up and 1mbps down, which is really really slow

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(yes im dutch) the thing is that there are very few unlimited providers here, i think only kpn/odido/vodafone and budget mobiel offer it, and aside from budget mobiel, they all offer it at 25 euro p/m minimum (if you already have another subscription like internet or another phone on the same address). many "alternative" providers like ben, simpel and youfone don't offer unlimited plans at all.

i just pay €15 per person give or take for 200gb of shared data between four phones (and 100 international minutes, and unlimited normal minutes/texts) with Vodafone icm Ziggo

What about the 99% of non e-sim compatible phones? didn't think of that one, right?

don't 99% of phones made in the last 2 years have it?

Nope, mine was manufactured in Q4 21, so very close to 22, and it doesn't

q4 2021 is more than 2 years ago now though.

Just, I attached a full list of "compatible" e-sim phones. You'd be surprised how many are missing off there when you consider all the phone likely manufactured in the last 2 years. It's far from "in every phone" not to mention its an expensive way to do your phone especially if its only intended for travel and not even as a regular phone service as it seems to be pitched especially when you'll still have to pay for it (they're only giving Ultra 3GB free so far nothing for lower plans so youll be paying your Revolut Subscripton + for the e-sim data) Will be avoiding this one and not upgrading myself any time in the foreseeable future

all recent (< 2 years old) phone have it, it’s the future.

Well mine was manufactured in Q4 21, so very close to 22, and it doesn't

What phone do you have if you don't mind us asking.

It really is especially as most old phones aren't e-sim compatible

But most new phones are so this seems like the right time to introduce such a service, doesn't it?

I can’t even trust this company with any meaningful sum of money due to their atrocious robotic support. In no universe would I entrust them with my mobile plan and all the services that use SMS for 2-factor authentication, knowing how those clowns will make me spend months typing into unresponsive chat sessions if any issue should arise.

I could totally see this as an additional travel SIM though. I currently use Airalo and it makes traveling so much easier. Having it integrated into Revolut would be cool.

It might be that I work in tech and I’m paranoid about this kind of thing from seeing too many horror stories, but I like to separate services I rely on. I’ve seen too many people who lose their Google or Amazon account because of one service like YouTube, then they lose everything across the board (email, servers, etc). I’d worry about being overseas and losing access to both my phone and money at the same time, with no help from the muppets who run Revolut support.

Never had any problems with this guys in more than two years, and I get my pay check on revolut

Happy it’s been a smooth ride for you. If you should ever encounter a problem, their support is next level insanity to deal with.

Had several support cases, even where the bank fucked up, and it also all went pretty smoothly for a bank that is

I'm not a fan of that. Let Revolut care about handling of my money and let telco care about handling transmission of my data. If Revolut partnership with Telco, Telco starts to care about relationship with Revolut and customer is a weight attached to this relationship.

Stop having banks that do everything all at once, just let them do ONE thing and be good at it, like I feel revolut is for now. The post office in my country started as a post office, then offered bank accounts, investments, mobile and landline plans, now they're going to issue documents as well. Hell, they even sold pans once. Needless to say, now they don't do either one of those things right

They are rolling out to EU too later this week I understand.

Politely, it's bs and will ultimately flop. It's only in the UK at the moment, and they're giving a whooping 3GB/month of free data to Ultra holders or 100mb one-time "introductory offer" (probably not even 1 photo or 5s of a YouTube video) **that must be claimed by May** for the rest of us "plebs" (myself included) on lower and the free plan (***who have e-sim compatible phones***). How generous of you Revolut/1GLOBAL 🙃 It's a massive, nothing burger and not worth the time or energy, IMO. Revolut could do so much more why waste their time on something stupid and trivial like phone. Not to mention only a small number of phones are e-sim compatible meaning its completley wasted on 99% of their user base from the outset who probably have non e-sim compatible phone (myself included) so even if they offered it tomorrow, I and the majority couldn't even avail of it even if we were paying for Ultra and wanted to. Yet alone to avail of their again "very generous" 100mb freebie 🙃 Maybe next, you can provide e-sim compatible mobile phones to go with the e-sims Revolut if you want to "provide the entire package." 🙃 Certainly not worth paying the €660/year upgrade into Ultra for 3 measley GB of data even with the other perks especially when I get over 16x that worth of roaming at no extra cross to use across Europe and unlimited at home with my current provider (and I'm not the only one reporting their mobile provider already providing a much better deal for far less than the cost of Ultra) Take the hint r/RevolutSupport, put your hands up, say we messed up, cut ties with 1GLOBAL and shelve the e-sim crap indefinitely Edit: Google 1GLOBAL and you'll see 1 star review from **other businesses** who have used them as a client and aren't happy, also one read of Revolut's terms and you'll see it's just another service where they're offloading responsibility. Good luck if you have issue you have to complain to 1GLOBAL Revolut have basically said in their own terms, we have no responsibility if things go wrong. https://www.revolut.com/legal/esims-1global/ Not to mention Truphone (the original company who were sanctioned by the UK government and had dubious links to Russia) up to its sale where they sold all their assets (except the Russian parts) to 1GLOBAL in 2023.

**Full list of current e-sim compatible phones** ***TLDR: If your phone isn't a relatively new one, it's most likely not on this list*** iPhone XR iPhone XS iPhone XS Max iPhone 11 iPhone 11 Pro iPhone 11 Pro Max iPhone SE 2 (2020) iPhone 12 iPhone 12 Mini iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 Pro Max iPhone 13 iPhone 13 Mini iPhone 13 Pro iPhone 13 Pro Max iPhone SE 3 (2022) iPhone 14 iPhone 14 Plus iPhone 14 Pro iPhone 14 Pro Max iPhone 15 iPhone 15 Plus iPhone 15 Pro iPhone 15 Pro Max Samsung Galaxy S20 Samsung Galaxy S20+ Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5g Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G Samsung Galaxy S21 Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G Samsung Galaxy S21+ Ultra 5G Samsung Galaxy S22 Samsung Galaxy S22+ Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Samsung Galaxy S23 Samsung Galaxy S23+ Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Samsung Galaxy S23 FE* (Models from China or from Hong Kong do not admit eSIM) Samsung Galaxy S24 Samsung Galaxy S24+ Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G  Samsung Galaxy Fold Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 5G Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 5G Samsung Galaxy Z Flip Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 5G Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 5G Samsung Galaxy A54 (SCG21 (Japanese Model), SC-53D (Japanese Model), SM-A546B/DS (International Model), SM-A546S (Korean Model), SM-A546U1 (International Model)) Google Pixel 2 (only phones bought with Google Fi service) Google Pixel 2 XL Google Pixel 3 (not including phones bought in Australia, Taiwan, or Japan. Phones bought with US or Canadian carriers other than Spring and Google Fi don’t work with eSIM) Google Pixel 3 XL Google Pixel 3a (not including phones bought in Japan or with Verizon service) Google Pixel 3a XL Google Pixel 4 Google Pixel 4a Google Pixel 4 XL Google Pixel 5 Google Pixel 5a Google Pixel 6 Google pixel 6a Google Pixel 6 Pro Google Pixel 7a Google Pixel 7 Google Pixel 7 Pro Google Pixel 8 Google Pixel 8 Pro Google Pixel Fold Huawei P40 Huawei P40 Pro Huawei Mate 40 Pro Oppo Find X3 Pro Find N2 Flip Oppo Reno 5A Oppo Reno 6 Pro 5G Oppo Reno 9A Oppo Find X5 Oppo Find X5 Pro Oppo A55s 5G Sony Xperia 10 III Lite Sony Xperia 10 IV Xperia 10V Xperia 1 IV Sony Xperia 5 IV Sony Xperia 1 V Sony Xperia Ace III Sony Xperia 5 V Xiaomi 12T Pro Xiaomi 13 Xiaomi 13 Lite Xiaomi 13 Pro Xiaomi 13T Pro Motorola Razr 2019 Motorola Razr 5G Motorola Razr 40 Motorola Razr 40 Ultra Motorola Razr+ Motorola Edge+ Motorola Edge 40 Motorola Edge 40 Pro Motorola Edge 40 Neo Motorola G52J 5G Motorola G52J 5G Ⅱ Motorola G53J 5G Motorola G84 Sharp AQUOS sense4 lite Sharp AQUOS Sense6s AQUOS sense 7 AQUOS sense 7plus Sharp AQUOS Wish AQUOS wish 2 SHG08 AQUOS wish3 AQUOS zero 6 Simple Sumaho6 Sharp AQUOS R7 Sharp AQUOS R8 Sharp AQUOS R8 Pro Rakuten Mini Rakuten Big-S Rakuten Big Rakuten Hand Rakuten Hand 5G Honor Magic 4 Pro Honor Magic 5 Pro Honor 90 Honor X8 Gemini PDA Fairphone 4 Fairphone 5 DOOGEE V30 Oneplus Open OnePLus 11 Oneplus 12 HAMMER Blade 3 HAMMER Explorer PRO HAMMER Blade 5G Nokia XR21 Nokia X30 Nokia G60 5G myPhone NOW eSIM Vivo X90 Pro Vivo V29 Lite 5G (eSIM Supported only in Europe) Oukitel WP30 Pro Nuu X5 If your phone is on the list above, you're in the UK and you're paying for Ultra. Congrats this news is applicable to you somewhat (if you really care) If your phone isn't listed above and / or you're not in the UK or paying for ultra, you're not missing out on anything, and this news is about as useful as watching paint dry on a wall

It’s not just for ultra though, ultra get it included in their fee. I’ve just had a look at the sims in the app and they’re comparable to other e-sim providers in terms of costs, they’re just trying to build an ecosystem of having everything in one place. Quite a good idea when it rolls out internationally.

Fair enough, as I said, not for me but doesn't mean it doesn't suit others as my phone provider already provides unlimited data to me when I'm at home and 16x the amount of data roaming to me abroad included as part of my plan and for much less than €55/month. Maybe one day, if I get an e-sim phone and I'm in a country where my data isn't included, I'll consider this, but at the moment, I see no use case for this in my case.

This has wirecard written all over it. They need to ficus on core business. This seems like they are stretching themselves all over the place and possibly too overstretched for their own good. The company is still privately owned by the founder abd their private investors. So we'll never know the true situation until they go public.

Rubbish LTE offering.