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[zirk]

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.

[redelitev6]

That's a pretty good package for that sort of money

[zirk]

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. 

[TheBoy]

+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

[Mr Skrunts]

+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

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. 

[Lagondanet]

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!

[Viral_Jim]

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.

[aaronjb]

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? 

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

[Viral_Jim]

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

[Lagondanet]

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.

[zirk]

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?

[Lagondanet]

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.

[aaronjb]

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 

[zirk]

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.

[Lagondanet]

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 
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CompuServe. Now there's a name from the past.