[carcass]

After the 31st March our new £20 All-In-One 20 Add-on will give you 300 minutes, 3000 texts and 12GB data for up to 30 days. If you don’t want to worry about running out of data then you will need to switch to the £25 All-in-One 25 Add-On. This gives you 500 minutes, 3000 texts and all-you-can-eat data for up to 30 days so you can chat, text and instagram to your heart’s content.
https://threemicrosites.co.uk/allinone/c

[daleski75]

That's nice so if you want to continue with unlimited data it will cost you £5 more a month. I think 3's hashtag of #makeitright needs seriously reconsidering.

[tdenson]

I pay my Grandson's 3 AYCE plan. He streams music a lot (which he is studying at Uni) so needs a fair bit. I bit the bullet when 3 raised it from 15 to 20 but this is the tipping point. What are the alternatives, say for about 20GB ?

[Everything Goes]

Three are pretty much shafting as many of the customers as possible. Guess they hope most people will believe the hype of #makeitright

Since they still added customers in the final Quarter of 2015 I guess they think they can shaft some more and get away with it.....

[david16]

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Originally Posted by carcass

After the 31st March our new £20 All-In-One 20 Add-on will give you 300 minutes, 3000 texts and 12GB data for up to 30 days. If you don’t want to worry about running out of data then you will need to switch to the £25 All-in-One 25 Add-On. This gives you 500 minutes, 3000 texts and all-you-can-eat data for up to 30 days so you can chat, text and instagram to your heart’s content.
https://threemicrosites.co.uk/allinone/c

That All In One 25 plan is an existing PAYG plan that has always been on offer if you have an airtime balance of 25.00 or more.

[DevoidDroid]

The problem is that for a PAYG bundle 12GB for £20 is still a good deal when you compare to other networks, though the number of minutes is pretty poor.

[david16]

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Originally Posted by DevoidDroid

The problem is that for a PAYG bundle 12GB for £20 is still a good deal when you compare to other networks, though the number of minutes is pretty poor.

300 minutes is sufficient for the many who bought an All In One 20 (ex 15). But you can pay an extra fiver if you need an extra 200 minutes.

AYCE data on PAYG was just an insurance policy for most to ensure they don’t run out of data before the month ends, not for consuming anywhere near 50GB of data let alone well in excess. At least for most they are still offering a good amount of data on the All In One 20 unless you need a lot more.

The problem for those who consume more than 12GB of data every month are going to have to pay a tenner more for it compared to up to last August (or even up until now if you bought several All In Ones before last August queued) but don’t need 301 to 500 minutes worth of calls. 200 extra unused minutes for effectively a tenner more is poor value and a whacking increase until recently or until now. You will in effect be paying 5p per minute for the extra 200 calls compared to the old All In One 15 whether or not you actually make them which is more expensive for them than the 3p per minute charge on the 3-2-1.

Best advice if 12GB of data is more than sufficient for you that you can do a 3-2-1 on any extra minutes of calls you make in excess of the 300 minutes per month, provided you make no more than an extra 166 minutes worth of calls.

[Mark in Essex]

The swines.

They should give it away for free.

[TheBigM]

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Originally Posted by tdenson

I pay my Grandson's 3 AYCE plan. He streams music a lot (which he is studying at Uni) so needs a fair bit. I bit the bullet when 3 raised it from 15 to 20 but this is the tipping point. What are the alternatives, say for about 20GB ?

Why can't he make use of the Uni WiFi, it should be pretty widespread?

[david16]

On a permanent basis nobody offers more data for a PAYG plan than three will still do from the end of the month i.e. the All In One 20 for 20.00 or less.

Just hope that the reduction of the amount of data from AYCE to 12GB on the All In One 20 isn’t the start of a slow reduction going down a slippery slope.

[WelshBluebird]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBigM

Why can't he make use of the Uni WiFi, it should be pretty widespread?

Granted the situation may be different now, but certainly when I was a student at Bath (between 2008 and 2012), campus wifi wasn't always great!
I am sure that it is better than what it was (I know the year after I finished the SU got building wide WiFi) but I wouldn't be too surprised if at many university campuses there are large areas of buildings / corridors / space between buildings with no / limited WiFi.
And of course there is then the time spent getting to / from university (again for me that was around a total of around 90 minutes a day).
And the persons kid could be at a better / worse uni for WiFi, obviously we don't know.

[jonmorris]

I am not surprised at this in the least. I think from a reputation perspective, Three can't really afford to ditch unlimited data. But it can make it more and more expensive, to the point where you're not going to just keep paying more.

When the 8 and 12GB plans arrived, it seemed clear that as time goes on the level at which you get AYCE will keep rising, which allows Three to continue saying it offers the service - but the take up will greatly reduce.

How much more would people pay for unlimited?

[swb1964]

500 minutes is a reasonable allowance but hardly enough to " chat away to your heart's content "

[David_Hill]

I got the text today. The thing is the price increased from £15 to £20 last autumn now by march it's gone up again. Two price increases in about 5- 6 months. It'll have gone up again by this time next year. As I rely on mobile Internet for an internet connection, this is a joke. Surely there comes a point you increase your prices so much your customers can't afford to pay you. For the same thing, i'll need to pay a tenner more than I was at the end of summer. It's ridiculous.

[tdenson]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBigM

Why can't he make use of the Uni WiFi, it should be pretty widespread?

Fair comment, but he spends a lot of time travelling out of range of wifi.

[Thine Wonk]

Controlling data demand through pricing, as we said.

[tdenson]

I'm left wondering if people hadn't abused the original AYCE plan whether we might still have a £15 one.

[Thine Wonk]

Well as Jon says you can't abuse it if it's unlimited, but some people certainly went a bit crazy, which can't help. They have brought in these changes as part of increasing the price of data to try and reduce usage, or make people pay their fair share if they're using a lot.

As Three's internal links which were posted said "controlling data use through pricing".

[Chris1973]

Does anybody know if the new PAYG 12GB for £20 will allow tethering?

[jonmorris]

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Originally Posted by Chris1973

Does anybody know if the new PAYG 12GB for £20 will allow tethering?

No tethering allowed on PAYG. It used to work for some, but it's still not allowed. Not even when paying 1p/MB.

[PowerLee]

I to had the text today - with a link that didnt work!

I currently sneak under the 12 Gb data usage a month so hopefully ill be ok - or ill start using more wi fi option.

Would be nice if Three upgraded more of there network, speed is very good but coverage still has some dead spots where O2 / Vodafone & EE have 4G coverage.

No signal whatsoever inside the London Velodrome, step outside & its 4G.
Step back inside & other mobile networks have coverage.

[david16]

The All In One 10 will offer 1GB of data from the end of the month, so that is positive news there.

Three could easily offer a new All In One 15 tariff that gives 3GB of data and 300 minutes of calls per minute, and introduce an All in One 30 that gives 1000 minutes of calls.

[jonmorris]

Three could do a lot of things, but at the moment increasing prices is the primary aim.

I suppose if you're promising not to increase prices to appease the EU and Ofcom, you better get the rises in as early as possible.

[david16]

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Originally Posted by jonmorris

Three could do a lot of things, but at the moment increasing prices is the primary aim.

I suppose if you're promising not to increase prices to appease the EU and Ofcom, you better get the rises in as early as possible.

Three don’t need to suddenly charge something like 11ppm, 13ppm or 14ppm e.g. on PAYG for both EU based and domestic based calls in terms of marrying the 2 rates by next year.

Mobile operators are supposed to abolish the expensive roaming call rates by next year to make call rates the same from both the UK and the EU. Not hike up the domestic rates almost to the current EU roaming rates while reducing the EU call rate by just 1p or 2p so that they can somehow claim they’ve abolished the EU roaming rate by the deadline like GiffGaff have cynically done.

[david16]

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdenson

I'm left wondering if people hadn't abused the original AYCE plan whether we might still have a £15 one.

That was never the case on the old All In One 15 PAYG plan with no tethering.