Skinny Roaming in Fiji

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#268293 10-Mar-2020 16:43

Hi there,

Spending a few days for work in Suva. What a great idea, $20 for 7 days of calls and texts and a gig of data. Sweet, sort of. Calls and texts working well. Data isn't. 3 goes with Skinny support and they have given up on me offering my $20 back. Would really prefer to have access to the internet outside of my customer's office.

Any ideas? Nokia 5.1 running Android 9. Should be this hard should it?

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#2435846 10-Mar-2020 17:34

Double check your APN settings. I had this issue with the wife's Nokia 5.1 in Fiji on skinny.

Also make sure Roaming Data is on

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#2435850 10-Mar-2020 17:48

As above make sure the Skinny APN is correct in the APN settings

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#2463746 16-Apr-2020 20:16

Sorry for slow response. I had 3 support calls with Skinny and in the end they drew a blank, shrugged their shoulders, and offered a credit. I then purchased a local Digicell SIM (the provider that Skinny was using) and it worked fine. About $5NZD for 8GB for the week.

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#2463765 16-Apr-2020 20:49

Price is good, unless you need your phone number. But yes, check that roaming is enabled for both voice and data.

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#2463848 17-Apr-2020 08:30

midhurst:

Sorry for slow response. I had 3 support calls with Skinny and in the end they drew a blank, shrugged their shoulders, and offered a credit. I then purchased a local Digicell SIM (the provider that Skinny was using) and it worked fine. About $5NZD for 8GB for the week.

Did you 100% have the APN correct? This has been the issue with most Skinny roaming issues people have posted about on here. If you put in a new Digicel SIM it would load their APN settings so things would work.