TrafficSense won't allow for tethering to affect the service of other mobile users who aren't tethering. Given that, what's the problem here?


There is nothing wrong with Three being basic. Many people want basic, they don't want to be paying for a contract that comes with a-ton of extras that they can't opt out for in return for a saving on their contract.

Didn't Three add the greatest amount of customers in the previous quarter? I guess the deal they're offering is pretty attractive..


You pay nothing more for it on Three, unlike EE where you have to upgrade to a more expensive plan.


£12.50?

Retention deal back when the one plan was £25pm.

don't forget you also get another perk from EE, constant dropped calls and disgraceful customer service

what about chitter chatter....tmobile?

are they any good? thinking of going with them

that sounds expensive
£30 a month on finance as well as the cost for the monthly one plan...

i hate when people go on about how it is cheaper to buy the phone outright and go on a sim only....of course it is, but many can't afford to spend £500 in one go for a handset

Tethering is included on ALL EE plans, not just one like The One Plan on three

Thanks for that input. They are a new network with new technology. The dropped calls have stopped. EE customer service is touch and go, as threes can be. Best customer service is O2. The worse is Voda. In my opinion, EE and three sit in the Middle of those two

Very good post . It's all about what value they offer. The cheapest isn't always best value

Interestingly it appears that Three are generally expensive on apple phones. Take a look at another example.

Iphone 5C on three one plan is £41 per month and £49 for the phone

EE on the 20GB DOUBLE SPEED plan with roaming, deezer, wifi and £93 quidco cashback is
£37.99 per month with. £99 for the phone

So three isn't good value for. 99 percent of people where 20gb data is enough who want a contracted iphone. They are more expensive then EE. With no 4G currently, no deezer, no wifi, no early upgrade facility etc etc

So Three are charging £673 pounds for a £450 phone in relation to the iphone 5C. Pretty good value

Galaxy Note 3
12 month
£0 upfront
£52 a month
Unl calls and texts
8gb of data (3 months unlimited)
No tethering restrictions.
Free spotify which was costing me £10 a month

Total cost £624
Saving £120 on Spotify

Still not found a better deal anywhere than the one Vodafone gave me.

Can you elaborate on the dropped calls have stopped?

Admittedly I do seem to be getting less dropped calls on EE but ive only been working in one area this last few weeks, before I was getting a lot of calls dropped after a few seconds.

I don’t know about contracts on EE but when it comes to PAYG they are nothing more than thieves and I’ll explain.

Friday I bought an unlocked phone that came with discount under the terms that I buy a £10 top-up. All very well and not having tried T-Mobile/Orange/EE for a good 10 years or more I thought it was time to give them ago.

The guy in the shop puts the sim in the phone with my tenner on it and of I go back home.

Back home 45 minutes later using my home broadband and I go into my account via EE web portal and my balance is £0-00p. Now I’m thinking this has to be some sort of mistake because never in my 19 years of having a mobile phone have I ever come close to using £10 in three quarters of an hour but having checked my balance and getting a fall rundown on what I have used in those 45 minutes I was able to see the full picture and here I will say one thing good about EE and that’s Orange / EE are very good at showing you where you have been shafted in their very detailed bill breakdowns.

In the 45 minutes I had money on the sim I had spent 30p on one phone call (this was from the guy setting up the sim in the shop) and the rest was for data at 69p per Mb, yes folks that’s 69p per Mb.

I could have gone to Spain to set up the phone as it wouldn’t have cost me any more even if I was roaming in the EU. So while I’m driving home with my spanking brand new phone, while it’s in the retail bag it’s used up all my £10.

I’m not really that worried to be honest because as I said I just wanted to try their network out while I had a tenner to spend but instead, before I was even given a chance, I was mugged.

Still happy with my 3-2-1 sim in the phone now and as far as EE are concerned they have left me hating their guts and I will forever and a day, from this day onwards slag them off with every opportunity I get. Thieving Bar Stewards.

At least with the 3 network they give you 150Mb of free data as thanks for topping up and that 150Mb would cost you £103-50p on the Orange PAYG starter plan.

Maybe they should save up to buy more things then, usually the only reason why they can't afford it is because of other debts. If you save for things first you can afford to buy them when you need to and without all the interest charges.

If times are so bad that you really can't afford it, then you wouldn't be able to afford the repayments. In that case you shouldn't really be splashing out on a £500 iPhone and maybe instead go for a basic Android £100 handset until you save up the money. Getting into debt never helps anything if money is tight, especially if it's only to take away more of your monthly outcome on some very expensive Apple device.

There are various reasons for dropped calls. The issue related to the switching from LTE to 2g/3g due to VoLTE not being used by any network.. It's been resolved. I suggest you contact EE

Totally agree

To add that you only have to save up once and make do with a cheap handset. Once you have saved up and bought it you don't have any big monthly payments, except for the sim only, then most of the money that would have gone on the £45 a month contract is in your pocket and can be put towards the next phone.

There is no doubt Three's sim only One Plan is the best value of any uk network by far. And if you can afford to buy a phone off contract then it's the best option for heavy data users

But, I think that there needs to be a clear distinction between the value three offer on these sim only plans and what they offer on two year inclusive phone contracts.
My own feeling is that they have dramatically increased the one plan with phone contracts because they have been able to do this in a veiled way through the distribution of new phones.
It is much more difficult for them to increase the price of the sim only one plan from say £15 per month to £30 per month which is what they would like to do, because it would seem to big an increase and they can't hide the pricing within the glitz of a shiny new phone.

Even when I moved house and had no broadband for a while I never got anywhere close to 20GB and I was even tethering and using Netflix.

On the topic of EE vs 3 I would rather go with EE as they have 4G 3 doesn't at the moment. I'm not saying 3 is bad as it's good for people on a budget or people with no broadband.

Exactly Stephen you are in the majority

Blimey, plenty of nonsense being spoken on here about both Three and EE.

No it hasn't.

If it had, they wouldn't be constantly appearing on BBC Watchdog. Every single EE user I know (around 30 as my team in work uses them) complains about dropped calls, still to this very day.

Well I employ 50 people all on EE and none of them have dropped calls now

EE is comparable
Unlimited calls and texts in uk and abroad
Free Deezer which is better then spotify
20GB of double speed 4G with much much better coverage then Vodafone
International Roaming included
£52.99 per month
There is an upfront fee of £79.00 but you can get £93 cashback through quidco which means you get the phone for free and in theory a £14 credit

Or you could choose to pay £49 for the phone and have 10GB of data.