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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: zirk on 29 August 2017, 15:18:02
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Limited Introductory offer from Three, 12 month Sim Only Contract at £25pm (works out £18.75pm, you get £75 Cash Back through TCB) - http://www.three.co.uk/Store/SIM/Plans_for_phones
100GB Data.
All-you-can-eat minutes.
All-you-can-eat texts.
+30GB Personal Hotspot
+Feel At Home Around the World Roaming
+Go Binge (Free Unlimited Data Use on Netflix, Soundcloud, Deezer, TVPlayer, Dave etc)
Not really my cup of tea as I already get Unlimited Data on an old EE plan, but may be of use to some folk.
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That's a pretty good package for that sort of money
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I thought so, probably wont be around for long at that price and with TCB.
Only thing I would say is check Three's Coverage in your area's before you go ahead. ;)
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+Feel At Home Around the World Roaming
Only you're limited badly. Expect a speed just about fast enough for browsing, rather than "feel at home".
(this isn't a problem unique to Three though, although they are the worse).
But a cracking deal *IF* you have coverage where you live/work/socialise/visit :y
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+Feel At Home Around the World Roaming
Only you're limited badly. Expect a speed just about fast enough for browsing, rather than "feel at home".
(this isn't a problem unique to Three though, although they are the worse).
But a cracking deal *IF* you have coverage where you live/work/socialise/visit :y
My S2 contract with the one deal worked fine, then since 4G came about I suffered signal loss and ended up with a booster and a constant arguement that I wanted discount as I was now using the internet through my ISP and the dat I was paying 3 for was a waste of money, Since ended up on the thier £9 a month deal for 3GB Data and UL text/mins but still have to use the booster through my ISP. :-\
Plus the signal is still sh**e whilst out and about. >:(
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What would you recommend as an alternative to 3 with high data limit and good coverage then? My son is regularly exceeding his Voda data limit and costing me a fortune. Please don't say take his phone away!
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Giff Gaff are doing "unlimited" data for £20/month. I say "unlimited" because its 6GB at full 4g speed, then you get clocked back to 380kbs from 8am to midnight, so probably doesn't affect the average teenager all that much ;).
That said, I have no direct experience with Giff Gaff, only two friends who have it. Their usual patch is St Albans / Bedford with regular trips to Nottingham and Loughborough, both would recommend the network.
On the subject of 3, I am using it to stream various digital stations on my commute now and I have no drop-outs between Kidderminster and Northampton, so pretty very overall.
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What would you recommend as an alternative to 3 with high data limit and good coverage then? My son is regularly exceeding his Voda data limit and costing me a fortune. Please don't say take his phone away!
Make him get a job to pay for his own phone? :P
then you get clocked back to 380kbs from 8am to midnight, so probably doesn't affect the average teenager all that much ;).
I thought the average teenager was glued to their phone 24/7, streaming high bandwidth things (YouTube, Instagram) so that would kill them! Well.. from lunchtime when they get up, anyway ;D
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True, but its also teaching an important life lesson about actions and consequences.
Currently the only consequence of his data overspend is on daddy's wallet. 20 days a month with slow internet on the other hand... character building ;)
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True, but its also teaching an important life lesson about actions and consequences.
Currently the only consequence of his data overspend is on daddy's wallet. 20 days a month with slow internet on the other hand... character building ;)
Maybe.
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What would you recommend as an alternative to 3 with high data limit and good coverage then? My son is regularly exceeding his Voda data limit and costing me a fortune. Please don't say take his phone away!
Voda Data should be capped when maxed out, they text you at 80% then text and stop at 100%, unless you changed the settings.
On your question whats his quota, and how much does he need / use? does he tether, stream, videos?
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What would you recommend as an alternative to 3 with high data limit and good coverage then? My son is regularly exceeding his Voda data limit and costing me a fortune. Please don't say take his phone away!
Voda Data should be capped when maxed out, they text you at 80% then text and stop at 100%, unless you changed the settings.
On your question whats his quota, and how much does he need / use? does he tether, stream, videos?
I will check his settings but I intend to move his account to another provider as currently on my business account. Hence my interest in your 3 post.
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True, but its also teaching an important life lesson about actions and consequences.
Currently the only consequence of his data overspend is on daddy's wallet. 20 days a month with slow internet on the other hand... character building ;)
Yup.. I gothad to get my first job (at 14 or 15 IIRC) because I'd run up a £200 phone bill connecting to CompuServe :-[ ;D
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Giff Gaff are doing "unlimited" data for £20/month. I say "unlimited" because its 6GB at full 4g speed, then you get clocked back to 380kbs from 8am to midnight, so probably doesn't affect the average teenager all that much ;).
That said, I have no direct experience with Giff Gaff, only two friends who have it. Their usual patch is St Albans / Bedford with regular trips to Nottingham and Loughborough, both would recommend the network.
On the subject of 3, I am using it to stream various digital stations on my commute now and I have no drop-outs between Kidderminster and Northampton, so pretty very overall.
Thats about 47kBs (Throughput) in real money, cant do much with that, apart from browse the Web,.... very slowly. ???
Sounds like it defaults to the lowest 3g connection rate which was 44kBs from memory.
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Yup.. I gothad to get my first job (at 14 or 15 IIRC) because I'd run up a £200 phone bill connecting to CompuServe :-[ ;D
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CompuServe. Now there's a name from the past.
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Thats about 47kBs (Throughput) in real money, cant do much with that, apart from browse the Web,.... very slowly. ???
Sounds like it defaults to the lowest 3g connection rate which was 44kBs from memory.
Ah, so it will be very character building then ;D
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Yeah. Right. I need something functional. :y
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I found Giffgaff to be shockingly shite. Not helped, of course by the poor 3G coverage of its underlying provider, O2.
I'm now with Evil Everywhere, on a 30day rolling SIM only plan, paying £7.50 per 30 days. They tried to entice me onto a £15 per month 5Gb, 1000m deal, but I stuck with what I had, as I'll soon get up to sufficient data/mins (every 3 months, I get either a 500Mb or 50m add-on for free for life). Mrs TB pays a tenner for her 5Gb, 250m EE plan.
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I use GiffGaff.....they run on the O2 network....so see what the coverage is like in your area....
I use them for both my personal and works phones.....the works phone cannot loose data connection as I wont get work if it does..
I did for a few days try an EE sim....absolutely useless where I live.....go out of town and I lost data connection!
Use this link if you want to sign up https://www.giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/taxi_driver
You get £5 credit as well as I
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I found Giffgaff to be shockingly shite. Not helped, of course by the poor 3G coverage of its underlying provider, O2.
I'm now with Evil Everywhere, on a 30day rolling SIM only plan, paying £7.50 per 30 days. They tried to entice me onto a £15 per month 5Gb, 1000m deal, but I stuck with what I had, as I'll soon get up to sufficient data/mins (every 3 months, I get either a 500Mb or 50m add-on for free for life). Mrs TB pays a tenner for her 5Gb, 250m EE plan.
I guess its because where you live......here I get a minimum of 3G in my house, outside its 4G, sometimes 4G inside as well.
EE is rubbish here ::) ;D
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I found Giffgaff to be shockingly shite. Not helped, of course by the poor 3G coverage of its underlying provider, O2.
I'm now with Evil Everywhere, on a 30day rolling SIM only plan, paying £7.50 per 30 days. They tried to entice me onto a £15 per month 5Gb, 1000m deal, but I stuck with what I had, as I'll soon get up to sufficient data/mins (every 3 months, I get either a 500Mb or 50m add-on for free for life). Mrs TB pays a tenner for her 5Gb, 250m EE plan.
I guess its because where you live......here I get a minimum of 3G in my house, outside its 4G, sometimes 4G inside as well.
EE is rubbish here ::) ;D
I actually did get 3g at home with NiffNaff, but pointless as my broadband wifi is faster. But generally O2 has poor 3G/4G coverage outside of large towns and cities (but fantastic 2g coverage).
With NiffNaff I actually dropped to the 250Mb pack, as it wasn't fast enough to use that much in a month.
When I finally gave up with them, I tried 3 (no rural coverage at all) and EE (a revelation). Works mobile was Voda, and that is truly shite in these parts.
Now, until my account got mangled, and I had more data then I could use, wifi was permanently disabled, as I was regularly getting 65Mb+, faster than my home fibre broadband :o
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I found Giffgaff to be shockingly shite. Not helped, of course by the poor 3G coverage of its underlying provider, O2.
I'm now with Evil Everywhere, on a 30day rolling SIM only plan, paying £7.50 per 30 days. They tried to entice me onto a £15 per month 5Gb, 1000m deal, but I stuck with what I had, as I'll soon get up to sufficient data/mins (every 3 months, I get either a 500Mb or 50m add-on for free for life). Mrs TB pays a tenner for her 5Gb, 250m EE plan.
I guess its because where you live......here I get a minimum of 3G in my house, outside its 4G, sometimes 4G inside as well.
EE is rubbish here ::) ;D
I actually did get 3g at home with NiffNaff, but pointless as my broadband wifi is faster. But generally O2 has poor 3G/4G coverage outside of large towns and cities (but fantastic 2g coverage).
With NiffNaff I actually dropped to the 250Mb pack, as it wasn't fast enough to use that much in a month.
When I finally gave up with them, I tried 3 (no rural coverage at all) and EE (a revelation). Works mobile was Voda, and that is truly shite in these parts.
Now, until my account got mangled, and I had more data then I could use, wifi was permanently disabled, as I was regularly getting 65Mb+, faster than my home fibre broadband :o
Really :o I got charged extra last month for exceeding my 1G limit on my personal phone.....the work phone uses 300-500M/month and thats just using my driver app and using google maps