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The Peoples Operator - any good?
seems like a great deal, anyone on here have any experience of them?
https://www.thepeoplesoperator.com/p...#featured-deal |
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seems like a great deal, anyone on here have any experience of them?
https://www.thepeoplesoperator.com/p...#featured-deal |
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They run on EE 3G, prices are OK, not spectacular.
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They say that 3GB is mountains of data and that amount is more than 10 times the average uk mobile data use.
If you believe that approx. 300MB is the average monthly data use you'll believe anything. |
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show me a better price for the equivelent offering?
As I said, an OK price, not spectacular, or enough to warrant a move to a niche operator. |
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For a PAYG sim:-
500 minutes, 500 texts and 500 MB of data costs £10 over 30 days. 1000 minutes, 1000 texts and 1000 MB of data costs £15 over 30 days. 2000 minutes, 2000 texts and 2000 MB of data costs £20 over 30 days. So on PAYG, The People's Operator is out of the question for me and I would not switch from paying with cash on PAYG to setting up a direct debit on my debit card on a contract with any operators. |
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Without even looking, Three offer unlimited data for £15 per month, the Virgin all inclusive is a similar price (also on EE), Giffgaff offer 3GB for £12, Lyca offer unlimited for £15, Vectone offer unlimited for £10 or £15 depending on other allowances. Probably plenty of others I haven't thought of.
As I said, an OK price, not spectacular, or enough to warrant a move to a niche operator. |
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They say that 3GB is mountains of data and that amount is more than 10 times the average uk mobile data use.
If you believe that approx. 300MB is the average monthly data use you'll believe anything. |
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But are the deals you mention unlimited minutes & texts as well as the data? I doubt it !
Most people in this section of the forum have a fair knowledge of the various offerings, you trying to push a niche 3G only operator isn't going to impress many here. If you like it, buy it, if you work there, many here won't be too interested in it. You'll probably find yourself banned if you do start trying to advertise and promote it excessively. You've made a post about how wonderful you find it, getting all defensive and belligerent when others aren't quite so impressed won't win any friends. |
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Come on then - what is the UK's average data use then?
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UK mobile users consume more mobile data than any other nation, according to a new report from telecoms regulator Ofcom. By 2012 it was around 1GBThe watchdog found that mobile web browsing, video streaming and social networking in the UK now outstrips Japan, which has long been the trendsetter in mobile usage. [b]In December 2011, the average UK mobile connection used 424 megabytes of data/B], whether for social networking, streaming videos, web browsing or downloading music. Read more: http://www.itpro.co.uk/644680/ofcom-...#ixzz3LcfD9CZ7 Quote:
Ofcom says the boom in tablets and smartphones has caused mobile data to double over the last year.
One of the biggest leaps was due to the ride of Android tablets and the iPad, with 11 per cent of us now owning one, compared to two per cent this time last year. But even ignoring tablets, 42 per cent of smartphone users say that their mobile is their may way to access the internet - and with two in five of us owning a smartphone, that translates into a lot of data for an industry which was in its infancy a decade ago. Mobile phone company Three agreed with Ofcom's findings, saying their users were now on average using 1.1 gigabytes of data a month - up from 450mb last summer. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz3LcfitpCi |
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I've just checked, the only deal that's better is Vectone...
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OP if you want to know they are financial backers of the Labour party and also share your information with an organisation called Mass 1 , who are a marketing voting and polling company who also have close links to the Labour party.
The owner of the network is believed to be involved in political campaigning against certain political parties and was accused of "aiding a dirty tricks campaigns during industrial disputes", including giving free calls and texts to strike committees and encouraging political union activities. They will use your data for quote "research, surveying, polling, general campaigning, and engaging with you, including sending you messages (email or SMS) for these purposes on our, or a third party's behalf". They will process your data trying to anonymize it, but using it for research purposes, and you agree to this in the terms. If you give permission *(which you may do by default. as agreeing to the terms is probably a mandatory checkbox) they will also sell your information to 3rd parties for marketing purposes. In terms of it's viability in the long term In the year ending December 2013, TPO reported a loss of £1.54m on £62,227 of revenue, the year before it printed revenue of £456, resulting in a £566,231 loss. Other MVNOs have gone out of business and left customers with no service and no refunds on credit, so the choice is yours given the information above. |
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Glowing review then.
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Looks like TPO could do with a shed on top of that mountain to store all that data.
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OP if you want to know they are financial backers of the Labour party and also share your information with an organisation called Mass 1 , who are a marketing voting and polling company who also have close links to the Labour party.
The owner of the network is believed to be involved in political campaigning against certain political parties and was accused of "aiding a dirty tricks campaigns during industrial disputes", including giving free calls and texts to strike committees and encouraging political union activities. They will use your data for quote "research, surveying, polling, general campaigning, and engaging with you, including sending you messages (email or SMS) for these purposes on our, or a third party's behalf". They will process your data trying to anonymize it, but using it for research purposes, and you agree to this in the terms. If you give permission *(which you may do by default. as agreeing to the terms is probably a mandatory checkbox) they will also sell your information to 3rd parties for marketing purposes. In terms of it's viability in the long term In the year ending December 2013, TPO reported a loss of £1.54m on £62,227 of revenue, the year before it printed revenue of £456, resulting in a £566,231 loss. Other MVNOs have gone out of business and left customers with no service and no refunds on credit, so the choice is yours given the information above. |
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You might be in love with them (or work for them), but that "unlimited use" comes with the * Subject to fair usage caveat.
Most people in this section of the forum have a fair knowledge of the various offerings, you trying to push a niche 3G only operator isn't going to impress many here. If you like it, buy it, if you work there, many here won't be too interested in it. You'll probably find yourself banned if you do start trying to advertise and promote it excessively. You've made a post about how wonderful you find it, getting all defensive and belligerent when others aren't quite so impressed won't win any friends. |
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It's a 30 day rolling deal so not much to lose if they go under...
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They say that 3GB is mountains of data and that amount is more than 10 times the average uk mobile data use.
If you believe that approx. 300MB is the average monthly data use you'll believe anything. When you include all consumers then the average amount was closer to 1Gb. And of course we are nearly two years on from that report (it covers the period to January 2013). So the average is likely to be higher now - even if you discount 4G consumers. The figures they are working from are really designed to say that 25% consume this amount ; 50% consume this amount ; 75% consume this amount etc etc. That might be interesting in identifying trends but not for showing average use. I am always suspicious of companies that exaggerate and use deliberately vague language. (The fair usage policy is even vaguer than giffgaff!) It's a shame really as their offer is not bad, certainly not the cheapest but would be attractive to someone on PAYG. |
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