Eight Telecom discussion thread

[amazingone]

Global award winner, thanks to YOU!

As a token of our appreciation, we're surprising 80 existing customers (subscribed before June 6, 2025) with $28 mobile wallet credits. Winners will receive an SMS announcement next week!

Let's see if anyone from here lucky enough.

They took down this post, not sure if they still choosing 80 customers not.

 

[DenOOO]

They took down this post, not sure if they still choosing 80 customers not.

Post is still up there though.

 

[amazingone]

Post is still up there though.

The Facebook app messing with me Managed to see the post on desktop

 

[Livewings]

They have 5G now?

 

[limmengteck]

Dont know how to attach pic. But it is still 4G for me.

 

[Habrosus]

They have 5G now?

You aren't the first person to see this. No official announcement though.

 

[A7997A]

They have 5G now?

On and off people do report seeing 5G is a few limited location.
Either a bug or trial will be my guess.

 

[JAYSCS]

I think MNO and MVNO still has their differences

Definitely, MNOs is better at planting bombs to gotcha. A lot of surprise charges.

 

[Jirachi]

They have 5G now?

Does it go away or return to 4G after a few seconds?

 

[Shutterbox]

Set phone on 5g.
But only got 4g+ signals

 

[matrix05]

I wonder when will Eight APAC roaming package going to match SIMBA countries including HK, Korea and China as well..

Simba is the winner for those north east Asia lover/ tourist. China focused is cmlink.

 

[limmengteck]

Set phone on 5g.
But only got 4g+ signals

How to see if it is 4G+?

 

[PiKa]

Thank you for your support! You're one of 80 winners to receive $28 mobile wallet credits as our appreciation in helping eight to become a global award-winning MVNO. Your account has been credited.

Anyone got this?

 

[BBCWatcher]

Simba is the winner for those north east Asia lover/ tourist. China focused is cmlink.

How so? Let's look at their roaming partners...

Eight Japan: Rakuten, KDDI
SIMBA Japan: Rakuten, KDDI
(Winner: Tie)

Eight South Korea: SK Telecom, KT
SIMBA South Korea: Uplus, KT
(Winner: Eight; SK Telecom is a better network overall than Uplus)

Eight China: China Mobile
SIMBA China: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom
(Winner: SIMBA)

Eight Mongolia: Skytel
SIMBA Mongolia: (none)
(Winner: Eight)

Neither Eight nor SIMBA have any roaming partners in Russia.

 

[Habrosus]

Anyone got this?

Congrats!!!

 

[crystalnox]

Is there no way to fully use up a balance?

 

[krazyhippo]

How so? Let's look at their roaming partners...

Eight Japan: Rakuten, KDDI
SIMBA Japan: Rakuten, KDDI
(Winner: Tie)

Eight South Korea: SK Telecom, KT
SIMBA South Korea: Uplus, KT
(Winner: Eight; SK Telecom is a better network overall than Uplus)

Eight China: China Mobile
SIMBA China: China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom
(Winner: SIMBA)

Eight Mongolia: Skytel
SIMBA Mongolia: (none)
(Winner: Eight)

Neither Eight nor SIMBA have any roaming partners in Russia.

For Simba in china , only china telecom works . The other 2 unable to select for use.

 

[BBCWatcher]

For Simba in china , only china telecom works . The other 2 unable to select for use.

OK, interesting. Apparently China Mobile is regarded as the best for coverage in China, so it's possible Eight offers the better roaming partner there if SIMBA can only roam onto China Telecom.

 

[CPTMiller]

seems like eight is now competing with simba to see who can attain lower speeds.

Nowadays too many new users on SIMBA and EIGHT. How to have good speed.

 

[ecommercenoob]

Zym Kym???