Originally Posted by POSSIL:
“What do you have?”
Three - 600 mins / 2000 3to3 mins / AYCE texts / AYCE data / 12GB hotspot - £20 a month (30 day)
EE - 15GB mobile broadband, £5 a month (30 day)
EE - AYCE minutes / AYCE texts / EU calls/texts / 16GB data - £16.49 a month (12 months)
Vodafone - AYCE minutes / AYCE texts / EU calls/texts - 20GB data - £30 a month (but with Spotify worth £10 a month) (12 months) [I missed the £20 deal, but that's only for a year - my discount AFAIK is ongoing).
I am considering ditching the Three account as it offers a poor roaming service (sorry, but Feel at Home is crap even if it is free) and I actually don't really need unlimited handset data to be honest.
I could probably negotiate a better deal with Three (like 30GB personal hotspot) if I wanted to, but I'm not sure I do.
I also think when my year of Spotify runs out and the Vodafone contract then seems expensive (assuming I don't just cancel and sign a new contract at whatever discount is on offer then), I may end up just sticking with EE. It will almost certainly have the best overall coverage and speeds.
I am actually finding that Wi-Fi is better now than it used to before, and when I always said how I'd rather use mobile data than some dodgy Wi-Fi service.
Now we have 5GHz hotspots and much faster speeds, and the advent of Wi-Fi calling and better authentication (without pop ups in many cases) plus phones that can monitor the performance and switch from Wi-Fi to mobile data automatically, I can actually allow Wi-Fi usage and not have those horrible situations where you realise everything has halted because you're not logged in properly or the (Wi-Fi) speed has dropped to 5Mbps...