Originally Posted by secretmsgs:
“STAY AWAY if u after data .TBH these days 4g is must , and if u hunt around , u might get something reasonable..”
4G is certainly nice, but 3G isn't dead yet. Well, unless you're stuck with a rural site with a poor backhaul, which is not likely on any network using EE or Three.
I am testing a The People's Operator SIM (with 31GB of data for £19.99 a month) right now, and it's on EE's network - but 3G only. And with no throttling, I am topping 15Mbps regularly - and even getting mid 20s in some places. Uplink speeds are as high as 3Mbps, which is also fine. Ping times around the 50-60ms mark.
The same tariff also has unlimited texts and calls, so if you could stand not having 4G as an option yet, that could be a good alternative. Still uses the same network as Virgin. It's a 30 day contract too, so it's hardly difficult to tell the network to get stuffed if anything changed.
(BTW I know there's no throttling as I've got two Orange SIMs and have done tests on them in the same location. Bar an expected slight variation from test to test, the speeds are generally the same on the TPO SIM as the two Orange (3G only) EE SIMs.