Lebara Mobile (UK) Reviews 76,498

TrustScore 5 out of 5

4.8

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Review summary

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Looking at 22,586 reviews, reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers frequently praise the staff for their helpfulness, politeness, and efficiency in resolving issues. Many people highlight the exceptional customer service, noting quick response times and a smooth overall experience. Consumers appreciate the proactive approach of the company in ensuring customer satisfaction and the clear explanations provided by agents. Conversely, a small portion of people felt dissatisfied with the contact process, mentioning difficulties in getting issues resolved online or through chat services, and some experienced delays in number porting. A few other people also felt that some agents provided inaccurate information or were not as helpful as others, leading to frustration.

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Service

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Reviews shaping this summary

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We were connected immediately to a person when we called. Maitree was absolutely amazing with helping us to switch our mobile package deal. The links were sent promptly and the switch was done without... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I’d switched to Lebara and ran into an issue with iMessage not working after my SIM swap. I called support and was helped by Sangita, who was brilliant. She immediately understood the problem and reso... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Shubhangi A was amazing! I contacted Lebara to get help ordering an eSIM for an existing number, which I had previously tried online to no avail! Shubhangi helped me do that in less than 5 minutes, so... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Unable to resolve problem online or using chat service. Got in contact with Maitri from customer services who has promised it's resolved. It will take a day for that to be clear but she was very pleas... See more

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Company details

  1. Mobile network operator
  2. Telecommunications service provider

Written by the company

Lebara is a mobile network provider in the UK, ideal for the value seeking customer. The brand offers budget friendly SIM Only and pay as you go plans with data, UK, and international mins to over 40 countries. With Lebara you get total control over your spend - no contract, 30 days rolling plans. Easy sign up with no credit check and capped out of bundle spend.


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4.8

Excellent

TrustScore 5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good service

Hopefully, my problems will be sorted tomorrow. Vintage was reassuring and suggested additional product- to buy roaming for my travel to Turkey

28 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I would not recommend this company to…

I would not recommend this company to anyone. The network is fine but the customer service is a 0 out of 10. I contacted Lebara regarding the simplest of request of how to increase the number of rings on a Samsung phone. They were provided with the error received, what had been done, and the fact the error was shown to Samsung who advised that the error seen was a Lebara issue. It was clear that they do not read the information as they constantly reply with the same answers which was tried before contacting them and they ignore this. You also get silly responses from Lebara stating they have not head from you within 5 days when you have responded to them the same day and it is Lebara that we are waiting for a response to this from. The other issue I found with Lebara the operating hours that they say have chat support not once was I able to get online chat support during these hours. I have escalated this issue to the head of the UK but so far I have not had a response from him. It is a very simple request "how to increase the number of rings on a Samsung A16 with the error it generates when I try" but when you are dealing with Lebara it brings a whole new meaning to badly run customer service.

28 May 2026 Lebara have been provided with the reference and as the responses have been so poor to such a simple request I have escalated this to the head of Lebara for the UK and asked him to take ownership . Samsung confirm the in ability to increase the number of rings on a Samsung A16 error relates to an issue with the provider. Error provided to Lebara multiple times

28 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Darshan Pawar is very helpful

Darshan Pawar is very helpful. He is patient and understands my questions. Most importantly he went extra miles and resolved my issues on the phone. I am happy with his service! Thanks again.

28 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The worst customer service I have ever experienced

Everything when wrong from the start when an agent messed up my port in and transferred my temporary sims number to my daughters phone and effectively wiped out mine and my daughters old numbers. I am still being charged my lebara deapite leaving weeks ago and have spent over 35 hours on the phone trying to resolve the issues. I have been hung up on 20 times when they get bored of trying to help and have been spoken to appallingly. I’ve got about 5 live complaints going but no way of talking to anyone about them. They call once per complaint and hang up after one ring and close the complaint as you haven’t answered. I’ve e mailed Stephen Shurrock CEO twice and he has opened the e mails both times but no response or acknowledgement. It’s the worse customer service I have ever experienced from top to bottom of the company. I am still owed £30 and they are still charging me. Some guy responds to these reviews saying call customer services - what a joke - they are appalling. Avoid at all costs

22 April 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Hopeless ..

Today, I tried to talk to someone about extending the ring time of incoming phone calls before they dropped into my voicemail.
I spoke to 3 Customer Support people on 3 separate occasions and nothing appears to have worked. We even tried entering the codes on a second phone with Lebara and went nowhere!
I find it odd that although each operative gave similar instructions, each gave different combinations of codes to input. Something is clearly wrong when this gets given to customers.
So today I wasted a good hour of my time and went nowhere and perhaps time to look for a new provider!

28 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

This has been an ongoing saga

This has been an ongoing saga, to be honest one I would have preferred never to have been involved with.

This ‘Refer & Earn’ hasn’t been the most pleasant experience I’ve ever had and whilst I think I now have a full working knowledge of how you ‘Refer’ I’m still a little vague about the ‘Earn’ aspect! As I understand it, within 60 days of the referral going active you receive an email or text asking you to supply your bank account details so that Lebara can pay you a sum of money for any and all referral’s. This despite them already holding your bank details because they draw money for your own phone on a direct debit every month!

Sounds simple enough but let’s just wait and see because my god it’s been an absolute nightmare trying to get any information out of the company. The amount of times I’ve been told that someone will ‘contact you’ to explain how this system works is ridiculous. Anyway someone eventually did, this very day, contact me. Why this information isn’t made easily available on the website is beyond me. I now have to wait, as I said, 60 days and I will be contacted, though I could have lost the will to live in that time.

I will repeat, again, that I have never had any issues with the phone service, it’s good value, reliable, terrific 5G signal and the quality of the calls are tremendous but then that would be due to the Vodafone service I would imagine? I think customer service or perhaps just the Refer & Earn website page needs to be reworked so that it is totally clear to everyone, even me, in very clear terms just how it works so there is no confusion. Would I go through the process of referring someone again! No definitely not.

28 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I contacted Lebara today about my contract

I contacted Lebara today about my contract and chatted with Shubhangi A. She was brilliant at dealing with my enquiry and worked efficiently and quickly to change my payments slightly. I am very happy with Shubhangi's service and happy to recommend Lebara to friends and family.

28 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

It was really helpful

It was really helpful. Thank goodness customer service agent Krusgna Bagade assisted me.

28 May 2026
Unprompted review
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Reply from Lebara Mobile (UK)

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. At LEBARA, we aspire to be brilliant at customer service and I’m glad to hear that our team did a great job!

Best Regards,
John-Paul Patten
Business Operations Director

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