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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

https://www.1pmobile.com/

Not sure if this is still relevant, and why can't you buy from a retail store ?

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2021/10/some-...

We have two 1pmobile sims obtained last year and do not see these £2.50 deductions. From my obviously time limited experience they do seem to be an excellent company with an efficient customer service team too.

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I am disgust in EE. They won't sell pay as you go sim for 5G told me you have to buy monthly contract sim 12 or 24 months contract for 5G. I don't want any contract.

Surely they can't do this?

Why can't they do it? They not compelled to sell anything to you.

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Been tested Samsung Galaxy A53 5G with smarty £10 for 60GB data

Very impressed with that fastest 5G https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/8256920942

i have been with smarty for a couple of years or more and they are fine, I don't know about 5G as i don't have 5G and to be honest I am in no rush to get it, but smarty does provide 5G for the same price as 4G.

Smarty is good value as long as you can get a good Three signal, which is far better than it used to be.
5G on a mobile will make little difference if any to be honest.

The thing about 5G is that it is for data, not voice or SMS. Very few (no?) networks offer PAYG data at anything like a sane price.
If you were paying 20p per MB on 5G, get a decent connection and you could run up a bill of more than £700 in a single hour. Even if you could afford that, I'm not sure their billing system would manage it well.

I have unlimited minutes, messages and data on my phone, and 5G at no extra charge where available. £22 per month, though it may have a small annual increase soon.

In reply to a post by pluralist:

I have unlimited minutes, messages and data on my phone, and 5G at no extra charge where available. £22 per month, though it may have a small annual increase soon.

I think you’ve missed the PAYG in the above thread. (I went for 200GB of 5G data, which is effectively unlimited for my usage and its £25/month, with a different network to your .sig).

I often wonder about the objections to Three for the average punter, like myself, as opposed to those with commercial needs.

My mobile history was Orange in the 1980s for business use, then switching to O2 and porting on cost grounds after retiring and being on O2 LLU. I forget what happened following my wife's death but I ended up with a new EE bundle in emergency in the far south west of Cornwall soon after my wife died, as it was an O2 not-spot.

That EE was ditched at the end of its two year contract, as it was basically never used after that initial fortnight.

The came the Three Black Friday offer that I explained at length at the time in 2018, where over a couple of months ny landline broadband then the line it self went.

No regrets. Three telephone phone support has always first class in my experience, including today Easter Saturday on behalf of a friend who had lost their phone with an identical SIM contract. (Providing his only broadband though he does have a Pulse8 landline).

He hadn't clue what to do so I went over there and I checked out the paperwork and the Three website for instructions. Told him what to say and guided him through the four levels of 5-7 options each level on his landline. No fuss though there was a strange problem at their end but that's another matter which I sorted quickly.

Once that was cleared up it took under five minutes for the rep to block the original SIM and arrange a replacement with the same number as the blocked one, to be sent in 1-3 working days.

Now I have to find the best phone for him. The lost one was my old Huawei P10 Lite, which even now is quite a decent bit of kit.

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I often wonder about the objections to Three for the average punter, like myself, as opposed to those with commercial needs.

Mostly around my area its the lack of 4G when you drive out of town (dropping back onto 3G) and in town the 30 Mbps 4G unless you are outside Morrrisons with the new “pole of wonder”. This lack of consistency isn’t worth the subscription per month when the competition (Vodafone or EE around here) is much more consistent for similar prices.

My mobile history was Orange in the 1980s for business use, then switching to O2 and porting on cost grounds after retiring and being on O2 LLU.

Well Orange only started in April 1994, and I bought in Nov 1994. Before that you’d probably have been on Analogue Cellnet or Vodafone 😁

No regrets. Three telephone phone support has always first class in my experience, including today Easter Saturday on behalf of a friend who had lost their phone with an identical SIM contract. (Providing his only broadband though he does have a Pulse8 landline).

Very lucky, the Three customer service is often slated on various (not here) forums as being hard to understand. Three have the lowest number of customers and I won’t be taking out another subscription with them personally.

Now I have to find the best phone for him. The lost one was my old Huawei P10 Lite, which even now is quite a decent bit of kit.Yes, Huawei isn’t really a sensible choice anymore given the well published issues, perhaps look at the Moto or OnePlus ranges.

"Well Orange only started in April 1994, and I bought in Nov 1994. Before that you’d probably have been on Analogue Cellnet or Vodafone"

I've just spent a fair while searching old files and cabinets, plus google searches, and so far not able to prove an Orange number before 1994. But I am absolutely sure.

It would have been when Orange was a French-owned company. Though it must have been 1989 at the earliest. It was a flip-phone, and my memory says Motorola, so the only candidate is this:

In 1989, Motorola upped the status symbol ante by releasing the first "flip phone," the MicroTAC 9800x. At the time of its release, the MicroTAC was the lightest and smallest cell phone on the market. Improvements in battery technology and circuit miniaturization cut its general size and weight, and the key innovation of making part of the phone fold up while not in use made it almost perfectly pocketable. For the first time, a cell phone could also completely hide in a purse.

Though I didn't have a purse. Or an intergalactic spaceship.

From Carphone Warehouse with an Orange Business SIM.

All business invoices and credit card bills for that long ago gone of course. Though I might have other records that might be findable another day. I think I still have the SIM in an old phone, now with the number updated for the 07 range of course.

Not that it matters to the topic .

I've recently brought a couple of Oppo A54 5G phones for relatives, you can often find them for around £120 almost new on auction sites. They are dual sim, 5G and I've tested them working on VoLTE and VoWiFi on both 3 and EE. AfAIK they all are unlocked even the EE boxed/branded ones. Might be worth a look.