Thanks Colin, didn’t realise that - useful to know. Of course I am confusing what the phone itself can do with what my SIM card does.
With my UK phone it has a Voxi sim(Vodafone) which will piggyback onto orange, sfsr or free over here, orange gives a 4 bar signal on 4g but poor 8mbps speed, sfsr has only a two bar signal but 34mbps speed so the phone automatically wants to connect to oranges stronger signal.
So doing it manually and choosing sfsr locks it to their signal and gives me the better connection than auto does, my 4g router is the same.
I’d be very surprised if you weren’t able to get a decent 4G signal from Orange/Sosh almost anywhere in Paris. However, you keep mentioning “wifi” as opposed to 4G. Are you distressed that you don’t find many Orange/Sosh hotspots in your local area? These are entirely different to 4G coverage.
P.S. 0000 is the default unlock code for your Sosh SIM, & has no bearing on anything to do with reception.
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We have a SOSH contract and have just received an email saying calls to french mobiles will now be an additional 5€ a month. So the good value €24.99 package is now a much less good 30€. 
Presumably you have all had same email??
They seem to offer different packages at different times. I started on a very cheap one (less than 10€) but quickly discovered that was not enough. Once a customer the cheaper deals disappear, so I’m on a deal which I think is 27€, so no, not received an email.
Do you have a mobile or internet contract Jane, my mobile contract costs 24.99 a month and I get free calls to French mobiles and landlines as well as free international calls to landlines plus 70g of data.
My children (students not tinies) have Orange 16€ deals with unlimited texts, 2 or 3 hours of calls and unlimited free calls to maybe 3 or 5 numbers.
It’s both…gives us landline (with free international calls), internet, and a mobile with free french calls and text and limited data for €24.99 up to now.
Do you have two numbers Jane?
Yes, mobile and landline
I’ve had a €10 a month deal with Reglo/Leclerc, which piggy-backs on SFR for several years now. It works fine and they haven’t upped the price at all. Unlike Bouygues, who keep layering on extra services (which my wife doesn’t want) and using that as an excuse to lever the pricing upwards - it’s currently €23 and they tried to lift it up to €26 recently until I stopped them.
That’s fine Brian if SFR covers your area. It doesn’t cover ours. The gite at the bottom of the garden, yes, but not the house. 
I know the feeling, Sue. I used to be with Free and I got a great signal everywhere except at home!
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I just stepped through the process to sign up to Sosh mobile, adding the transfer date for my current SFR mobile number to be the current SFR contract expiry date. I had to provide a RIO code for the transfer of my existing mobile number.
I understood that I don’t need to do anything now as far a cancelling the current SFR contract is concerned, as that will now be taken care of automatically by Sosh. Would be great if anyone can confirm my understanding is correct as want to avoid any complications with SFR continuing my contract and continuing to charge.
You are correct, Sosh will do it all.
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Thanks alot 
much appreciated