If / when they do contact me being a very low user 120MB per month Im tempted to terminate the contract (if I can leave without penalty) and move over to Pay As You Go which may be cheaper as a low user. 5 or 6 Months left at £37 per month is £185 or £222 so their loss

I don't think they are contacting people still in their term?

Ok. They did contact me the other week offering me an early upgrade and 25% discount which was odd.

I might ring and pretend I got a text to see if they will cancel me!

Haha do it.

To be honest people are taking the p*ss with the amount of tethering data they have been using and I suspect p2p data too and as a result the network's grinding to a halt in many places now, there strange attempt to solve this with rolling out 4g in congested areas doesn't seemed to have worked so far in many cases, sad but was long over due,
Trouble is.. What's going to there USP now??
It's no longer data.
It's not unrivalled 4g (well certainly not so far)
It's not coverage.. As they have only 2100mhz & 1800mhz 4g so far which is poor indoors and in rural areas..
So what's it going to be??

I must admit, reading this thread and the HUKD and the one on reddit.

People saying: "Uhh, I used 180GB last month, what am I going to do!?". The network will be alot better because of this imo.

They will have 800 soon and still offer unlimited data on the handset

Agreed.

That one 180GB download frees up ALOT of bandwidth in his area.

With this news it's no one wonder Three told me that my service will improve at the beginning of 2015! I suspect they spun me a line about the installation of a new mast, but instead knew the system would be unclogged of high data usage.

He probably lives next door to Wavejock

But Three have no coverage in Glasgow!

It depends on your view of what "data" is. I can get unlimited data on my phone from Three, plus a reasonable tethering allowance to go with it.

No other UK network offers that now and no other UK network has offered it in the past.

I very much doubt that Three's growth is down to Unlimited Tethering alone. I would imagine that the average person will see Unlimited Data and the 2GB/4GB tethering allowance as being more than enough.


Aside from a continued focus on unlimited data on phones (which they can still offer), they do generally offer good value. Particularly when you consider things like Feel at Home.

What are the best deals Three are offering existing Unlimited One Plan customers?
I need to be prepared to haggle with them!

It was nice while it lasted, although I'm not sure that many people were abusing tethering (or even using it that much, if at all) for Three to need to do this.

My wife is on the One Plan and hasn't tethered once, so clearly she won't have a problem changing - but it's a lot of negative PR for the network (and ammunition for the Three haters) in order to remove something that should have been manageable with TrafficSense.

At least the unlimited data on the handset remains, which still gives Three an edge - but for mobile broadband, I'll probably just start using my EE mobile broadband account more. With double speed, and the option of getting a Cat 6 LTE Mi-Fi at some point in the future, I'll clearly get far quicker speeds too.

I suspect a fair few people who now know 'it's over' will start to consider paying a bit more to go to EE, knowing the network coverage will be essentially identical, but with far more 4G and with double speed/4G+ too.

When EU roaming charges are axed, that's one more thing Three 'loses' as a benefit.

I hope Three knows what it's doing. It does need to make more money, but really can't afford to lose customers.

See my post earlier in the thread... £15 for unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited data with 4GB hotspot. £15 on a 30 day rolling contract. Pretty happy with that. Didn't even have to haggle for it, it's the first thing he offered. Maybe I should've haggled!

I agree this will free up some of the network but for the vast majority of us we are being moved over to a more expensive tariff

If they wanted to tackle tethering they could have put much more aggressive throttling and traffic management/shaping in place.

That leads me to think this is a profit exercise. But to me it doesn't differentiate them enough from EE now. Their equivalent three plan is way more expensive (more than an adequate EE plan), three are good but they are lagging behind in the technology and speed stakes. 4G rollout is much slower and EE will probably have more capacity more frequencies and newer technology like calling over 4G enabled long before three.

I would be surprised if many people managed to use more than 4Gb data actually on the handset which EE is offering for £21.99 without haggling. I would have thought most of the high usage users tether.

Bottom line, three are losing their trump card which was value for money.

I have received no text from Three and I tether like crazy...

Their trump card is surely the most reliable UK data network, which continues to offer unlimited phone data and the best UK 3G network and free 4G and feel at home etc. and transparent tarrifs without hidden extra charges where you can't go over your allowance, and the free 0800 numbers and other benefits that Three offers like spending much more time on 3G compared to O2 / Voda etc.

This is the news we've known has been coming for a while, it'll mean that the people who used their mobile contract as a home broadband replacement will be stopped dead and we can all enjoy the network's data for what it was intended now, handset data with a reasonable mobile hotspot allowance.

I'd also point out that I'm out of contract, but have not yet been contacted, presumably because either they are doing it in stages or they are just kicking off the people who tether all the time as use a ton of data as if it were fixed broadband, rather than as it was intended.

A lot of people like unlimited for the feeling of safety, not because they're excessive users.

I guess there were a sizeable number of people who did go mad with data (quite 'legally' I might add) but I still think it wasn't going to be a large percentage of the total One Plan users.

4GB tethering is still not bad, but I have 15GB on my EE broadband account and think Three could perhaps offer a higher amount, or hugely reduce the fees for topping up the tethering (say £1 per GB).

3 still offer unlimited data, EE don't. It's just a loss of unlimited tethering and potentially higher prices (although there's that guy here who seems to have been offered basically the same plan at the same price but without unlimited tethering).

3 are still a lot cheaper than EE if you care about unlimited data.

Also makes them look foolish for claiming no price hikes for 4G.

They have clearly changed their tariffs and forcing loyal customers onto the newer higher costing, less value tariffs.

So i am paying for the next phase of 4G++/VoLTE/800MHZ-4G when EE can provide most of that now or sooner for a fairly similar cost. (If you except the fact that unlimited data is probably nothing more than a mind game marketing gimmick as i assume its very hard to use a lot of data on your phone without tethering. I was assuming the majority use less than 4GB per month of on device data).

What happened no limits reliable data for affordable prices.

No, they are kicking off the users that are using their phone tariff as a home broadband replacement and use huge volumes of data on other devices. unlimited data on the mobile phone, from the mobile phone provider is still available and with a tethering allowance too.

Has it been confirmed if we can still get unlimited tethering until the remainder of our One Plan contract or is it only up until 5th January? I just want to be sure I don't use any data outside my allowence.