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Old 27-10-2015, 15:48
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People are better off going with BT Mobile. Better value and same coverage. 30Mbps down and 20Mbps up is enough on a mobile device, even when tethering.
Except they don't allow tethering.
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Old 27-10-2015, 16:14
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I mentioned here in the past that 3 Ireland have a 60GB per month 3G/4G data package for roughly £30, they now have even bigger allowances, 100GB for around £40 and 250GB for around £50!

http://www.three.ie/eshop/broadband-...pay-broadband/

Really wish 3's UK arm or EE would pull their finger out to offer packages like these.
There's even fiendishly clever ways to do even better than that on Three Ireland 🇮🇪

Anyway, why wait ? Anyone can use a Three Ireland 🇮🇪 SIM in the UK without penalty.
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Old 27-10-2015, 16:24
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Anyway, why wait ? Anyone can use a Three Ireland 🇮🇪 SIM in the UK without penalty.
Problem is though, don't you need to live in Ireland to get one of those plans.
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Old 27-10-2015, 17:20
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Problem is though, don't you need to live in Ireland to get one of those plans.
Ah, I overlooked that you referring to a contract. Apologies. However, I just use a PAYG.
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Old 27-10-2015, 18:29
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Ah, I overlooked that you referring to a contract. Apologies. However, I just use a PAYG.
How much data do you get on PAYG for those sort of prices?
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Old 27-10-2015, 19:06
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How much data do you get on PAYG for those sort of prices?
http://www.three.ie/eShop/phone-plans/prepay/

The Contract Mobile broadband offerings of 60GB, 100GB and 250GB, are a lot more generous than in the UK.

Prepay Mobile broadband is expensive though.

http://www.three.ie/eshop/broadband-...pay-broadband/

It looks like Three once did something similar to what EE were going to do about 3 years ago - bring Mobile Broadband to areas with no ADSL

http://www.three.ie/eshop/broadband-...adband-scheme/
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Old 27-10-2015, 20:55
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How much data do you get on PAYG for those sort of prices?
That would be a PM.
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:41
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I was with EE today talking about a range of new connected solutions for businesses and was amazed when we got on to tariffs, with one company on a nice 1TB plan!

Wonder how much that costs per month!
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Old 27-10-2015, 21:55
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I was with EE today talking about a range of new connected solutions for businesses and was amazed when we got on to tariffs, with one company on a nice 1TB plan!

Wonder how much that costs per month!
I assume a few thousand handsets sharing that? e.g. 9000 handsets in a company with a nominal 1gb each is quite a lot
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Old 27-10-2015, 23:35
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It looks like Three once did something similar to what EE were going to do about 3 years ago - bring Mobile Broadband to areas with no ADSL

http://www.three.ie/eshop/broadband-...adband-scheme/
Three IE won a contract from the government to help fill in certain "not spots". That project has now completed and a new NDP (national development plan) is being put in place for high speed broadband.
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Old 27-10-2015, 23:56
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I mentioned here in the past that 3 Ireland have a 60GB per month 3G/4G data package for roughly £30, they now have even bigger allowances, 100GB for around £40 and 250GB for around £50!

http://www.three.ie/eshop/broadband-...pay-broadband/

Really wish 3's UK arm or EE would pull their finger out to offer packages like these.
250GB. That's a lot of Father Ted episodes.

Why can't the UK get those sort of plans?

There must be a reason because Three UK added about two more mobile broadband plans this year, but the highest plan is 40GB which costs about £45 /month.
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Old 28-10-2015, 04:44
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I assume a few thousand handsets sharing that? e.g. 9000 handsets in a company with a nominal 1gb each is quite a lot
Nah, just one user with a Netflix addiction!

It was clear at the EE event that it wants to continue boosting capacity and taking speeds up, even as the network gets busier. The fact EE is gaining so many business users, mostly at Vodafone's expense shows it's paying off.

I wonder how BT will think of doing things?
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Old 29-10-2015, 19:23
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The only people I know who use the SIM are very technically minded and tend to use as much data as they can.
Kinda, I am technically minded but the reason why I need 100GB 4G card is because I have no broadband at my new place and the earliest the engineer can come is in 3 weeks time.

I have tested EE 4G speed in my current location and I get 30Mbit/s, that's already more than any home broadband can give me at this location!

Currently using Three with unlimited data but it has only 3G and until midnight comes the speed is around 1Mbit/s in a best case scenario.


I would rather pay £10-40/month to EE to have 100+ GB data than having to wait ages for the broadband AND still having slower speeds than with the 4G.

P.S. Have tried EE's 25GB plan for £30/month, the data disappeared within 2 weeks time and ONLY because I was using it for speed and my Three sim card for streaming/downloading, if I would only be using the EE's sim card those 25GB would have disappeared in days.
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Old 30-10-2015, 15:28
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A few of this just got this on existing EE SIMs :

More data just for you! Here's another 100GB a month for two months if you top up £10 by 11 Nov. Once you top up, text DATA100 to 150 and enjoy!

This is welcome madness.....
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Old 30-10-2015, 17:25
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EE has gone mad. At this rate, we'll have 100GB of free data every month for life (and at a cost of just £60 a year - or less if you know how to avoid spending the £10!)
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Old 30-10-2015, 17:29
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EE has gone mad. At this rate, we'll have 100GB of free data every month for life (and at a cost of just £60 a year - or less if you know how to avoid spending the £10!)
Dead right....









.....*cancels TalkTalk*.
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Old 30-10-2015, 17:58
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Do these sims work in the EE dongles? If so then I can see why people are keen to take advantage of these.
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Old 30-10-2015, 18:20
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Do these sims work in the EE dongles? If so then I can see why people are keen to take advantage of these.
These SIMs work in any device.
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Old 30-10-2015, 22:14
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A few of this just got this on existing EE SIMs :

More data just for you! Here's another 100GB a month for two months if you top up £10 by 11 Nov. Once you top up, text DATA100 to 150 and enjoy!

This is welcome madness.....
I've just received that on my original Dan and Phil SIM.

I don't get EE, fantastic offers, but the same old rubbish PAYG tariffs.
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Old 30-10-2015, 22:20
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- or less if you know how to avoid spending the £10!)
I'm intrigued, am I missing something?
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Old 30-10-2015, 22:24
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I think EE may have 'fixed' it now, but before you could send the text to stop the £10 pack being added/debited, then add £10 to the account - and then get the 100GB. At the end, you'd still have the £10 to use for more data.

I think what you can now do is request a cheaper pack, then add the £10. If you stop all packs, you can't activate the data at all.

On my last one, I just did the £10 as normal because I figured I'd probably not care about having £10 credit that buys only 1GB anyway.
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Old 30-10-2015, 22:42
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If I didn't know any better, I'd swear EE are looking to try and "stress test" their network, looking to see if it can cope in general and identify parts of the country with strong data demand. Maybe a focus on larger data packages for phone & mobile BB in 2016 depending on results?
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Old 31-10-2015, 09:58
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I think EE actually has a few reasons to do them.

Possibly stress testing, but in reality it also expects many people to have what's almost as good as unlimited, but then discover they don't use that much - rather like Vodafone's three months of unlimited data on a contract (not sure what the benefit of that is either - you've already signed a contract with whatever allowance you chose).

To get more 4G subs. The cards will remain valid as a subscriber for six months after you stop using it, and as they're offering more data to people who had earlier cards, they may want you to pay another tenner to get effectively eight more months of you counting as a subscriber.

To up the average amount of data used by its subscribers, to beat Three and claim to be the biggest network in terms of data carried (by percentage).

Or,just to show off!
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Old 31-10-2015, 10:31
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I still think some day EE might offer more data. But when? No idea.
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Old 31-10-2015, 12:15
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I think EE actually has a few reasons to do them.

Possibly stress testing, but in reality it also expects many people to have what's almost as good as unlimited, but then discover they don't use that much - rather like Vodafone's three months of unlimited data on a contract (not sure what the benefit of that is either - you've already signed a contract with whatever allowance you chose).

To get more 4G subs. The cards will remain valid as a subscriber for six months after you stop using it, and as they're offering more data to people who had earlier cards, they may want you to pay another tenner to get effectively eight more months of you counting as a subscriber.

To up the average amount of data used by its subscribers, to beat Three and claim to be the biggest network in terms of data carried (by percentage).

Or,just to show off!
AYCE data > 100GB.

But many are more inclined to use as much of the 100GB of EE's offering as possible in both months, and likely to be consuming a lot more data than many who use three's AYCE data to make it value for money.

But hey, even if you use "only" 3GB or 4GB both months, you are still using such amounts on that EE 2 X 100GB per month sim card that's cheaper on the market that other PAY sim cards that offer 3GB or 4GB of data, even their own usual offerings.

Also most using the 100GB per month x 2 month sim cards don't have to worry about running out of data.
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