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Complaint Regarding eSIM Subscription and International Usage Issue

  • March 15, 2026
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Hi Odido Customer Support,

I want to raise a complaint regarding a very frustrating experience with my eSIM subscription and the support I received.

I applied for an eSIM and renewed my subscription via the Odido app so that I could use my mobile line abroad. On March 10, I received a confirmation email stating that my subscription had been successfully renewed.

 

On March 12, I received my eSIM card and activated my line while I was in the Netherlands. As I was planning to travel on March 13, I checked the Odido app again on March 12 to confirm that my subscription had been renewed. However, the app was not showing any information regarding my subscription.

 

Before leaving because o that reason, I contacted customer service to confirm whether I could use my line abroad without any issues. I was assured that there would be no problem using my line internationally.

 

However, when I arrived at the airport and turned on my phone, there was no service. After connecting to the internet and opening the Odido app, I also noticed that no subscription or data information was displayed there either.

 

Because of this, I had no choice but to call Odido customer support from Turkey. In total, I spent around 30 minutes on the phone.

 

During the first call, I was transferred between four different people and was eventually redirected back to customer service without any explanation, after which the call was abruptly hanged up.

 

During the second call, the support staff did not understand my issue and provided incorrect and irrelevant explanations, such as claiming that subscriptions cannot be started abroad or that the issue was due to my SIM card being “too old.” Eventually, despite explaining that I do not speak Dutch and that I had already started the conversation in English, I was redirected to Dutch support. Even after repeatedly telling that I do not speak Dutch, the call was again hanged up instead of transferring me to an English-speaking agent.

 

Rather than helping to resolve the issue, the process became unnecessarily long and frustrating due to incorrect information, lack of understanding of the problem, and repeated disconnections. In addition, the subscription information clearly states that the service can be used in Turkey, yet I was initially told that it could not be used there, and only later did the agents realize this was incorrect.

 

Furthermore, I had to make a 30-minute international call to the Netherlands from Turkey while keeping my line active, which resulted in additional costs and significant inconvenience.

 

Given that this issue occurred due to incorrect information and lack of support from Odido, I do not accept the charges related to this call. I kindly request that Odido handle and resolve this issue of not being able to use the subscription abroad directly and compensate for the costs caused by this situation.

 

I am waiting for your response and a prompt resolution.

Thaks,

Beste antwoord door eric

Hi ​@Sidika ,

Unfortunatly , on this forum there is no specific customer care avaliable. Moderators can only give general information.  Although a lot of people within Odido customer care speak english, it is not a standard option to speak to order are transferred to an english speaking agent.  Calling again to the main number and see if the new agent does speak englisch is the only advice what you generally can do.

For further customer care questions,  call them or send a DM message on Facebook or X.

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eric
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  • March 16, 2026

Hi ​@Sidika ,

Unfortunatly , on this forum there is no specific customer care avaliable. Moderators can only give general information.  Although a lot of people within Odido customer care speak english, it is not a standard option to speak to order are transferred to an english speaking agent.  Calling again to the main number and see if the new agent does speak englisch is the only advice what you generally can do.

For further customer care questions,  call them or send a DM message on Facebook or X.


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  • March 18, 2026

It is really unfortunate that the customers are left on a place where no support in real life is really provided. The customer service does not help/or not even in the place to understand the issue and customer is charged extra for the calls of a service that is supposed to properly work and bought. 

And calling 3 times as well as being have to pay extra already did not work, yet you suggest me to repeat the call  customer support to “get help” which they really did not do anything at all in the last two calls?

Also, there is no contact email for customer complaints for this issue at least to be properly investigated, this is the only place that I found maybe to get some help.  This is really frustrating, I dont wish to continue this service anymore.


Marciano van Odido
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Hi Sidika, welcome to our community. First off I'm hoping that you're having a good time in Turkey. Like ​@eric said, I must ask you to contact my colleagues via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/OdidoNederland), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/odidonederland) or X (https://x.com/odidonederland). My colleagues can look into your account, and also see if there's any barrings blocking your connection abroad. I'm more than happy to clarify a few things that might be the reason that you're not connected abroad:

  • Did you renew your subscription or is it a new subscription? And did the new subscription already start or is the activation date still in the future? You might still use your old subscription.
  • If it's a new subscription, international roaming can sometimes be blocked in the first few months of the start of your subscription. My colleagues can easily check this for you and remove the barrings.
  • If you already had an old subscription with us, chances are that you'll have to delete the old Mijn Odido account, create a new one and link your new subscription before you can see it in Mijn Odido.
  • Please also check if roaming is turned on. In Turkey please try to manually connect to one of these networks: TT Mobil Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S., Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S and Vodafone Turkey.

About the costs of the phone call, I can't make any promises, but my colleagues on Social Media are always very happy to help. So please, let them check your connection first and when that works, I'm sure they're happy to look into the costs for you as well. Please let me know if you've spoken to them!