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Three Like Home: New roaming plan (Three UK)
jabbamk1
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Three will be launching their new roaming plans end of the month.
Feel like home from three
Launches officially end of the month
Currently in trial stage for ALL customers
You heard it here first
I got told last night and confirmed this morning by someone who works in telesales. Also Europe plan/more countries being worked on for 2014
Feel like home from three
- Available for pay monthly, pay as you go, mobile broadband and business
- works on all tariffs and on all networks in Austria, Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, ROI and sweden
- calls and texts to the uk are under existing uk allowance
- Data roaming included in allowance
- No charge to recieve a call when abroad
- calls/texts to non uk numbers charged at standard rate
- fair use of 25GB roaming data when abroad if on ayce
Launches officially end of the month
Currently in trial stage for ALL customers
You heard it here first
I got told last night and confirmed this morning by someone who works in telesales. Also Europe plan/more countries being worked on for 2014
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Just to say, that's not confirmed. Only what I've been told.
No. Its included in all price plans. It just comes out of your mins.
So for example, I have 2000 mins and 5000 texts on my plan. So if I go to hong kong I can use those 2000 mins and texts
That sounds like a good deal as with Vodafone you pay £3 a day to use uk allowance. I think 3 are really going to shake up the market but I can't see me switching to them though.
I never said it was....
Although the fact it includes data roaming, doesn't cost £10 extra and is for all customers on all tariffs is a plus.
But yes, it does have some negatives that EE have turned into positives such as working in a larger amount of countries.
Ive said it twice now, its included in all price plans free of charge. Those 2000 mins and texts and data will work in any of the countries listed above at no extra cost.
Which seems reasonable at first but a fortnight away soon adds to your bill. I agree this does seem like a good deal indeed, small allowing.
Oh, yeah! I rather pay at least £21 for EE SIM only plus £5 for the roaming plan plus let's say £12.50 for 250MB data, instead of £12.90 and nothing extra in the countries mentioned (hopefully more next year) to use my UK allowance.
And please don't compare it to what YOU pay for YOUR contract!
Ahh ok, although I'm sure this is the way three would like to take it in the future. Especially with the EU wanting to get rid of roaming charges.
Yup. I just don't want to say that it is going to happen in H1 2014 and then Three don't do anything. 2014 is a long time away and a lot of things can change so i'm just going to say it's possible more countries (read europe) will be added.
I was told yesterday about the plan details from a friend who said it'd be officially launching end of the month. I rang telesales this morning who pretty much confirmed everything. They also mentioned the August 27th date which was mentioned by another forum member here a few days ago.
But so far i've been correct about a number of things related to Three based on the quote below, the majority of which i posted back at the end of June.
If the £5 a day European bolt-on remains for those destinations cost is basically prohibitive.
C'mon Three, if you're going to do it, do it properly!
Initially the plan would appear to be only for those countries which already have a Three network presence. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators_of_Europe for more details.
I was merely stating a point. For the frequent European/USA/Oz traveller, it's a poor offer.
No need to get arsey about it, is there? :rolleyes:
And it has nothing to do with being arsey, but in a different thread it was exactly what you did, compared something to what you pay as an EE employee.
Because next year new rules come into force to end European roaming charges. I guess Three wants to get ahead of the game and establish themselves as one of the first to start killing off EU roaming charges, and to have gone a bit further too.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a490095/eu-to-scrap-mobile-roaming-charges-in-2014.html
Obviously it'll cause a massive hit to those big networks like O2 that make a fortune from European visitors roaming here, and from selling throughout Europe. It'll massively hit O2's revenue as so much of it comes from voice traffic and so much less of their revenue comes from data revenue.
The tables are-a-turning:D, others have low frequencies now, everyone will have LTE, data is king.
I think that is where the big boys are trying to justify the extra premium, it is becoming hard and harder to extract more money from the European consumer. I suppose thats why we find networks using the RPI rule to push up the cost of contract prices mid-term. I expect over the next 24 months there will be a levelling out in 4G prices as the networks struggle to get people to upgrade to service.
How so? I thought with EE a fiver would have got me just 50 non-eu mins?
I am going to America in November. Are you saying for £5 I can use my minutes and data over there?
It certainly is an unbeatable deal if you look specifically at the countries mentioned. The good thing is that Three offer their feel like home package across all tariffs including pay as you go and mobile broadband without the need to pay extra. Something that other networks haven't fully covered. But 7 countries really isn't enough. Especially when you consider that Three don't offer anything other than standard rate in other countries.
This is where other networks have it covered, for example Vodafone have their Euro traveler, EE have their excellent minutes and texts roaming packages and O2 have their travel package.
It would be good to see Three expand this plan (or a similar plan to Vodafone) in other countries. It seems they may expand into more European countries in H1 2014 but it's all in the planning stages right now.
I think next year is going to be interesting once the new EU roaming regulations come into place.