Left Three

Had enough of three & their excuses,i joined EE yesterday,much better.

Costing how much? £34 or £44?

What about the router?

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 19-May-20 11:28:33)

I made the jump from Three to EE a couple of months or so ago - I phoned them (it was before lockdown) and was offered a SIM only business unlimited deal (minutes/texts/data) for £27+VAT pm - that is £32.40 inc VAT, and I was so pleased I didn't even try to get a better deal, but I suspect deals are there to be had with a bit of negotiating.

Wish I'd never gone with three on contract. Every blue moon I will get a good speed test, but every single time I actually need to use it, speed is garbage. That alone is bad enough, but the latency and packet loss means I can't properly use it as an automatic backup on my router as when the latency/packet loss is flip/flopping, it causes the firewall to also flip/flop, breaking the good connections.

I got a contract because I figured with unlimited I could easily spend a fortune, but with their limited speed I would have been better off sticking with PAYG and just paying for what I used, it would have been cheaper.

Edited by alexatkin (Tue 19-May-20 15:34:37)

Currently with both on unlimited data, Three & EE , better browsing on EE , plus im getting 50 upload, which is good for you tube videos.

I pay £28 a month on EE, filled in my details on the website, but didnt complete checkout, thought this might happen, got a call a few days later offering it me cheaper.

Edited by bobbyboyuk (Wed 20-May-20 23:11:24)

Likewise, one unlimited sim which was expired contract and a mobile data sim with a few months left, it was so hard to get through to anyone to do cancel I just did both at the same time and ill pay the early termination charge, although they do take 20% off which is something.
Currently use a EE pay as you go as my emergency backup.

Edited by Rolandrat (Thu 21-May-20 12:17:47)

If you are currently a customer, EE is doing unlimited SIMO for £25. If you have perks or know somebody who does or a student, you can take off another £5 to take it to £20 per month. 12 month contract.

So all EE plans are now 5G ?? Just looked the plan i can see on the website says 5G £35 a month and 18 month contract.

The plan i got 2 months ago is 12 months,unlimited everything, wonder if that is now 5G.

Tried ringining but 1 hour wait!!!

Edited by bobbyboyuk (Thu 28-May-20 14:18:25)

In reply to a post by bobbyboyuk:

So all EE plans are now 5G ?? Just looked the plan i can see on the website says 5G £35 a month and 18 month contract.

With phone, or SIM only? The SIM only has cheaper 4G only plans. The "Smart Plans" are 5G.

The plan i got 2 months ago is 12 months,unlimited everything, wonder if that is now 5G.

They changed yesterday, so I would assume not. If you log into MyEE it should tell you.

Tried ringining but 1 hour wait!!!

Yes, call centres are closed as people would have to sit too close together!

They just have one unlimited sim now, sim only, before they had 2 4G and 5G.

Just says Unlimited data
Great news! Your 4G SIM Unlimited Plan £34 includes unlimited data.

Be surprised if they dont put people onto it

Edited by bobbyboyuk (Thu 28-May-20 14:55:46)

You didn't mention unlimited. Actually for most of May there was no 5G SIMs on the SIM-only page, there was only 4G and one of those was unlimited. Now it seems a big relaunch occured across handset and SIM only plans. It looks like all handset plans are 5G, and some discounted SIM only plans are 4G. Not a surprise as Vodafone did similar 6 months ago

All Three SIMs have been 5G-capable for a long time. Even back to when I moved to them almost a year and a half ago. That includes the £1 ones from newsagents and such outlets.

(PS - thanks for that signal analysis number to dial. I was too tired at the time, too busy since, and definitely not in the mood right now )

Edit: At no extra charge if you can get such a signal.

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 29-May-20 00:38:09)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

All Three SIMs have been 5G-capable for a long time. Even back to when I moved to them almost a year and a half ago. That includes the £1 ones from newsagents and such outlets.

Yep, Three did the same with 4G. It seems consumer friendly, but the downside is the less income to build the network. Three is cheaper for a reason. EE and Vodafone seem to be following a similar path.

(PS - thanks for that signal analysis number to dial. I was too tired at the time, too busy since, and definitely not in the mood right now )

Edit: At no extra charge if you can get such a signal.

Confirmed, I get a 5G signal in the industrial park down the road ! Not much use for the factory units