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Three Network Speeds
Considering changing to Three due to their great network speeds and unlimited data plans. I intend to go on pay as you go, however please can someone confirm that the data speeds are the EXACT same on both pay as you go and contract? Thanks.
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Considering changing to Three due to their great network speeds and unlimited data plans. I intend to go on pay as you go, however please can someone confirm that the data speeds are the EXACT same on both pay as you go and contract? Thanks.
I was so very happy with Three before.. |
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Used to be good, but dropped dramatically in Dec and Jan but that could be a fault or an influx of new customers.
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Data on Three pay as you go gets less priority than contract so is usually slower.
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I intend to go on pay as you go, however please can someone confirm that the data speeds are the EXACT same on both pay as you go and contract? Thanks.
It's in the networks interest to give priority to its more important customers (those that are giving the network money every month by being contracted) so you can't really blame Three. Also, as others have said, I saw a deteriotion in speeds over the last 3 months of 2014, speeds arent quite as fast anymore. Still worth it if unlimited handset data is important to you, I suppose. |
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3G appears to have gone rather slow and laggy recently. 4G however is fast and furious so if you are in a 4G area you will be fine.
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3G appears to have gone rather slow and laggy recently. 4G however is fast and furious so if you are in a 4G area you will be fine.
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It depends where you live, tw3 gives approx 14mb down and ub3 near heathrows gives upto 8mb where as EE giving 70mb at tw3 and 45 at ub3, And yes paygo is slower compared to contract sims,i tested few months ago on 4g.
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I Wonder if there is a difference in speeds then between EE Pay as you go & pay monthly?
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Not always true. 4G in E14 is terribly slow.
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I Wonder if there is a difference in speeds then between EE Pay as you go & pay monthly?
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I thought speeds on 3 might improve following the phasing out of The One Plan (that's what was expected on this forum anyway) but having tried a PAYG SIM it's still no better.
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I thought speeds on 3 might improve following the phasing out of The One Plan (that's what was expected on this forum anyway) but having tried a PAYG SIM it's still no better.
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give them a little time, things will get better, just not overnight.
I don't get the best of speeds but I can still use my mobile for doing mobile things just fine. |
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I think it will depend a lot on where you live. If, like us, you live in an urban area then it's worth considoring. Why not simply try it out, get a Three Sim Card and stick a tenner on it and see what happens. I assume you have a phone that's not locked to a particular network? What I can certainly recommend is their "Feel At Home" service. I used it last year in Australia and it worked a dream. We phoned home on it and as they advertise it came straight out of your allowance. As for Data that worked a dream. I was a bit iffy about it working but it did. And of course if you're overseas in one of their selected countries and want to make a local call you connect to a service for free like Viber and then make it low cost call via Viber. And that works too. I even used it to set up a local Hot Spot so my wife could use her tablet.
I must admit I have an exceptionally cheap contract with Three, 300 minutes and 2.5GB for just £7.24 per month. Not going to get cheaper elsewhere. Every so often Three phone and try and get me to "Upgrade" but I would be crazy to do so. When I need a new phone I buy a pay as you go unlocked phone from Carphone Warehouse and put in my Three simcard. |
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I thought speeds on 3 might improve following the phasing out of The One Plan (that's what was expected on this forum anyway) but having tried a PAYG SIM it's still no better.
Some might deny the existance of any such prioritisation, but I went from being a heavy tethering user to a very light user, so perhaps they aren't dying to get me off it when there are people that are much more of a nuisance to the network |
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Considering changing to Three due to their great network speeds and unlimited data plans. I intend to go on pay as you go, however please can someone confirm that the data speeds are the EXACT same on both pay as you go and contract? Thanks.
I’ve been using 3-2-1 now since it started with no problems with speed but I will refrain from doing a new speed check here because I have good 4G and a typical speed test cost me about 80p.
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give them a little time, things will get better, just not overnight.
TBH, you could make exactly the same statement about Vodafone or O2... |
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As you can opt for double speed on EE PAYG it seems they handle it differently, I havent seen any real difference between my contract sim and the Dan and Phil sim I ordered.
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It's actually worse. Had I known this last month when I upgraded phone, I would have gone with EE instead. All thoughout the last 3 years I've been extremely happy with three. I just don't know what the heck is going on now.
I will be moving to see in a month. Three have gone way downhill for some unknown reason. |
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It's always been a bit rubbish here in Sheffield unless you're in the city center or meadowhall. Thank God my contract is up for renewal so weighing up my options
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I was all set to switch to EE in March when my contract is up but was a bit shocked to find when I tried my Dan and Phil sim in my phone that it sits on 2g for almost half my work journey (30miles) before being on 4g where as my three will stick with the 1bar 3g and happily stream my radio station..
So I'm a bit confused what to do right now, also is EE like three where it will switch down from 4g to 3g but not back up whilst streaming, as I'll probably be still stuck on 3g most the time if this is still the case. Sadly I'm finding many areas with barely enough speed to stream a 48k aac station at the moment on three.. So still confused... |
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I had great reception and service from Three for years, then when the 4G roll-out began here in Brighton towards the later half of 2014, 5 bars on my phone when to nil-one indoors and my internet speed went down from 2-3mbps to 0.12mbps!
I gave up listening to the empty promises from their CS, both abroad and in Glasgow, that the problem would be fixed. I will be moving to EE next month. |
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It would seem they are having capacity issues at a core level like EE did early last year. In the office complaints of dropped calls, poor speeds and weird on goings. Sound familiar?
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It would seem they are having capacity issues at a core level like EE did early last year. In the office complaints of dropped calls, poor speeds and weird on goings. Sound familiar?
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