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Old 22-08-2011, 13:04
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I have had my current mobile phone number since about 1997 from the BT Cellnet days. I was a customer of BT Cellnet/O2 continuously as a Pay Monthly subscriber until August 2010. I then switched to Orange as O2 didn't give me any incentive to stay and I knew someone who worked at Orange so I got a Friends and Family deal.

I am currently on an 18 month contract which will be expiring early next year. I am probably going to move to 3 as I haven't been impressed by Orange either with their data coverage or their customer service.

If I get a PAYG SIM from 3, am I able to port my number over from Orange to them as I did from O2 to Orange? Or can you only do this with Pay Monthly?

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Old 22-08-2011, 13:11
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Yes you will be able to port your number to pay as you go on 3.

The only time you can't port (usually) is if you want to port a contract number into a contract account on the same network.
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Old 22-08-2011, 13:25
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Thanks. Good to know.

So when it comes to leaving, I would just get my PAC number as normal, get a PAYG SIM from 3 and then ring up 3 and ask them to transfer it over?
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Old 22-08-2011, 14:08
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Thanks. Good to know.

So when it comes to leaving, I would just get my PAC number as normal, get a PAYG SIM from 3 and then ring up 3 and ask them to transfer it over?
Yes.
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Old 22-08-2011, 15:50
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Don't know if they still do but there was a time when 3 would give you £10 extra credit if you port your number into pay as you go
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Old 22-08-2011, 16:35
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Can you convert a 30 day rolling pay monthly into a PAYG on the same network and keep the same number?
i.e. On 3 Pay monthly to 3 PAYG
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Old 22-08-2011, 16:52
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I have had my current mobile phone number since about 1997 from the BT Cellnet days. I was a customer of BT Cellnet/O2 continuously as a Pay Monthly subscriber until August 2010. I then switched to Orange as O2 didn't give me any incentive to stay and I knew someone who worked at Orange so I got a Friends and Family deal.

I am currently on an 18 month contract which will be expiring early next year. I am probably going to move to 3 as I haven't been impressed by Orange either with their data coverage or their customer service.

If I get a PAYG SIM from 3, am I able to port my number over from Orange to them as I did from O2 to Orange? Or can you only do this with Pay Monthly?

Thanks.
If your not happy with Oranges data coverage, you going to be less happy with 3s.
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Old 22-08-2011, 16:53
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Can you convert a 30 day rolling pay monthly into a PAYG on the same network and keep the same number?
i.e. On 3 Pay monthly to 3 PAYG
Yes I am pretty sure you can...not 100% sure though.
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Old 22-08-2011, 17:01
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Yes I am pretty sure you can...not 100% sure though.
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Old 22-08-2011, 17:29
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If your not happy with Oranges data coverage, you going to be less happy with 3s.
Oh really? I thought that was 3's selling point?!
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Old 22-08-2011, 17:52
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Oh really? I thought that was 3's selling point?!
I am pretty sure there was a thread on here a while back, where quite a few people were saying that 3 had pretty bad coverage of all the networks. Vodafone was the best.

I think all the companies have pretty poor/average customer service
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Old 22-08-2011, 18:51
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I am pretty sure there was a thread on here a while back, where quite a few people were saying that 3 had pretty bad coverage of all the networks. Vodafone was the best.

I think all the companies have pretty poor/average customer service
I can't fault 3's coverage. I travel round the UK with my job and its the only network that I can almost always guarantee a signal with. I found it miles better than Orange, O2 and T-Mobile and on a par with Vodafone... only much quicker than Vodafone. Customer Service is hit or miss with any network depending on who you get thorough to!

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Old 22-08-2011, 21:00
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Don't know if they still do but there was a time when 3 would give you £10 extra credit if you port your number into pay as you go
Yes they still do it - according to this (rather wordy) link anyway; http://www.three.co.uk/Help_Support/...=1214305745843
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Old 22-08-2011, 21:46
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If your not happy with Oranges data coverage, you going to be less happy with 3s.
I moved from orange to 3 and data is 100 times better
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Old 23-08-2011, 11:04
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I can't fault 3's coverage. I travel round the UK with my job and its the only network that I can almost always guarantee a signal with. I found it miles better than Orange, O2 and T-Mobile and on a par with Vodafone... only much quicker than Vodafone. Customer Service is hit or miss with any network depending on who you get thorough to!

Mark
I moved from orange to 3 and data is 100 times better
Looks like I stand corrected.
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