Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“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.