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Finally ditched Vodafone
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Thine Wonk
07-05-2014
Originally Posted by noise747:
“I got my 3 sim in the post today, after a bit of fiddling to get it into my phone, i have now put the vodafone sim in my old phone and the 3 in my main phone.

My only problem was that the sim was a nano sim and 3 supplied a adaptor, now trying to hold the sim in the adaptor and the adaptor in the sim holder while I slotted it in my phone took some doing. why not just supply a micro sim?


Anyway, all done, so I will see what happens over the next month.

Their sim only contracts are cheaper as well.

With vodafone I pay £13 a month, for 300 mins voice, unlimited text and 750MB of data.

For just under a tenner with 3 i can get 1Gb of data, 600 mins of voice and 5,000 text.

I don't use any more than 10 text a month, so the reduced amount of text is no worry.

i could go for the £6.90 plan, with is 500MB data, 200 mins voice and 5,000 text. I would cope fine on that and still save over a fiver per month.

the only minor problem i have with 3 is no tethering, not that I have used it much, so not a huge problem.”

Have you tried tethering, because with the old fixed data caps like 1GB they didn't used to care if you tethered. I think it depends which tariff.

It is worth a test as the worst they are going to do is display a block page, reboot the phone and it'll go. You may find as it's a fixed 1GB of data that they don't enforce the tethering block.
noise747
07-05-2014
Originally Posted by Thine Wonk:
“Have you tried tethering, because with the old fixed data caps like 1GB they didn't used to care if you tethered. I think it depends which tariff.

It is worth a test as the worst they are going to do is display a block page, reboot the phone and it'll go. You may find as it's a fixed 1GB of data that they don't enforce the tethering block.”

I am not going to try it at the moment as i am only on the PAYG tariff as a trial. My mates on giff Gaff, i did think about that, but I am not fond of O2 as they refused to give me a sim only contract and yet i was a PAYg customer of them for years, since it was Cellnet.
Thine Wonk
07-05-2014
Originally Posted by noise747:
“I am not going to try it at the moment as i am only on the PAYG tariff as a trial. My mates on giff Gaff, i did think about that, but I am not fond of O2 as they refused to give me a sim only contract and yet i was a PAYg customer of them for years, since it was Cellnet.”

Ahh PAYG might be different. My old fixed tariff used to not include tethering, but you could and they didn't block it. PAYG I think always puts the tethering block page up if you tether.
noise747
07-05-2014
Originally Posted by Thine Wonk:
“Ahh PAYG might be different. My old fixed tariff used to not include tethering, but you could and they didn't block it. PAYG I think always puts the tethering block page up if you tether.”

I got a reply from their facebook page saying that 3 do not block tethering on any plans, you can use it up to your limit, if that is true then that is good.

i will see how good 3 is tomorrow in town and also when I go back to work in the canteen.
qasdfdsaq
08-05-2014
Originally Posted by noise747:
“I got a reply from their facebook page saying that 3 do not block tethering on any plans, you can use it up to your limit, if that is true then that is good.

i will see how good 3 is tomorrow in town and also when I go back to work in the canteen.”

Well that's a lie, they do block tethering on many plans. None of the current handset contract plans, but on quite a few of the SIM only plans and PAYG plans.
jonmorris
08-05-2014
Three often gives incorrect advice, so it's usually safer (if not a lot more inconvenient) to check the relevant price guides and other documents on the Three website.

Although, it's fair to say that by and large, Three really doesn't block tethering even on tariffs where it's not allowed. Very occasionally it will detect it and a reboot gets rid of the warning, although some usage scenarios perhaps make this detection more likely than others, but a lot of people get away with it and stay very quiet about it too!

I have to assume that Three will have improved this detection/monitoring on its new handset tariffs, as I'm still unclear how it will work. On an iPhone, Three can (and has) switched to a new APN, but how does Three control it on an Android phone? Does Android have a way to force a different APN when you activate the tethering feature?

If not, it must rely on detection that simply doesn't seem to be reliable enough.
qasdfdsaq
08-05-2014
A few people have said they are getting much more strict now on tethering blocks, especially on PAYG plans.

As for the APN's, Android is actually the odd one out. Most platforms before Android (e.g. Nokia/Symbian) had separate APNs as do iOS now. But currently there's no way to force a different APN while tethering, in fact no easy way to use one even if you want to. Partly that's because of the rather simplistic Linux networking stack that hasn't really been modified much for mobile - while Symbian for example had a pure mobile networking stack designed for wirelessly connected phones from the outset.
errea
10-05-2014
Vodafone's 3G coverage in Glasgow is very bitty with 2G EDGE coverage 2/3rds of the time. I used OVIVO and Sainsburys mobile (both Vodafone MVNOs).

My main coverage is now 3 and it's been a pleasant surprise with coverage and speed. On 3G H+ or 4G 90% of the time with occasional 2G voice/text roaming onto EE.

Originally Posted by paulker:
“Very rarely do I have 2g on Vodafone in Glasgow.”

paulker
10-05-2014
Originally Posted by errea:
“Vodafone's 3G coverage in Glasgow is very bitty with 2G EDGE coverage 2/3rds of the time. I used OVIVO and Sainsburys mobile (both Vodafone MVNOs).

My main coverage is now 3 and it's been a pleasant surprise with coverage and speed. On 3G H+ or 4G 90% of the time with occasional 2G voice/text roaming onto EE.”

Strange, not my experience.
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