Expeirences with Wingo

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Hi All,

Does anybody have recent experience with Wingo? I found a few posts on the forum but they are all quite old.

I ask because Wingo currently has an amazing offer (unlimited internet and telephone in Switzerland + 2GB in the EU for the first 2 years): https://www.wingo.ch/de/mobile/fair-...f-hx2N4lo3ZYGA

I'm moving into my own apartment, and was therefore considering whether to use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop and PS4.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

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Ah, I see, an other one of those ....

However, I'm with wingo for several years now and I have no complaints.

A friend of mine gave up all house installations (phone, internet, radio, tv - you name it, he gave it up) and uses his wingo as hotspot. That means his expenses are Fr. 55.00 per month for everything, as wingo starts at Fr. 25.00, then goes up with usage to the max. of Fr. 55.00 from where it's unlimited.

So yes, go for it as they give you this 2-year offer to start.

My friend never has any connectivity problems either although where he lives the deer come to say good night and the hedgehog and the fox come for dinner. (That is no joke, that's what's happening at his place daily, LOL!!)

Wingo is a daughter of Swisscom. Connectivity can't get better than that in Switzerland - apart from fibre maybe.

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That's fantastic information, Curley, thank-you! I'll go for it, in that case.

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Been using Wingo for a couple of years, after disasters with MBudget, Yallo and Sunrise.

So far no issues although I do struggle to understand their packages. I’m never certain what is included and what is not.

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I bought a wingo swiss subscription from mobilezone.ch, there is a offer wingo swiss 24 chf instead of 58 chf. So I think it is a great offer. Today I activate the Simcard and the connection is 3g and signal is only one bar. I don’t understand the cause, I live in near Winterthur, my phone iphone7. I don’t understand the cause

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They have a promotion until end of November, 44.95 - everything unlimited in Suisse and 40 other countries (Including US, France, Germany, UK etc)

For life and 60 day notice to cancel as there is no longer commitment

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I had wingo - similar deal, no complaints. Had to use it as hotspot on occasion and worked well. Now I have yallo swiss flat - 25/mo unlimited in all swiss, eu, USA and Canada. So far, it appears I have less bars in many places, but having unlimited internet in so many countries outweighs this. Both have been easy to pay and log in to see usage. I do miss being able to call EU countries for free with wingo.

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Reception inside buildings is often horrible unfortunately in my experience, I'm considering switching back to wingo even if it means giving up unlimited data abroad (not enough usage to justify 45 chf per month)

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Come to think of it, I often lost service with wingo in some buildings. I pay now 25 a month with yallo, unlimited in swiss and other countries.

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How are Salt generally viewed? They seem to have some great offers right now, but their EU roaming doesn't include certain EU countries... Not a problem for most people, but it is when you're from one of them and quite often go back to visit people

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Salt's customer service is appalling.

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Wingo has another offer via Mobilezone, everything unlimited in CH included, for 20 without a phone. Activation 50.-, no minimum duration.

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On Sunrise currently and reception isn't as good as it was when I was with Swisscom now looking to move to Wingo as it rides on Swisscom.

Does Swisscom somehow throttle Wingo customers on the Swisscom network?

Can I purchase this Wingo contract now and port a phone number across in a few months once I'm out of my current Sunrise contract?

Does anyone know if Wingo offers customer service in English?

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Purportedly they do not throttle in Switzerland but no idea how accurate this is. They do offer multiple language support (including English) like Swisscom

60 days is the standard interval to port from provider and Wingo can lock you in today if your end of contract is <6 months

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No throttling noticed when I switched from swisscom, I think the key differentiator for them is that wingo does not offer 5G (unlike sunrise/yallo). Depending on where you live, you could consider this throttling.

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If you're planning to do online gaming on your PS4 via a mobile hotspot the ping times are woeful vs a wired fibre connection.

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Wingo are great, I have the same deal you mentioned. Been with them for a year, I pay 25.95 inclusive of 5G. This is an additional add-on with them. Ensure you get that included free. They have great coverage.

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Wingo is great in Switzerland and Europe but lousy in the United States. I paid more for my US coverage but my data on my package didn't seem to go as far as in Switzerland.

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You guy’s realise, I hope, that you are replying to year old posts.

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Yep, keeps the thread up to date for anyone else considering Wingo.