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Three will continue to offer 3 times that amount of data on PAYG for £20 per month.
Three to suddenly charge considerably more again and then cut the amount of data still further (was the ex All In One 15 with AYCE data before they increased it to £20 and then cutting the amount of data it to a max of 12 GB per month) they would be shooting themselves in the foot. |
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Thanks guys, so as long as download through the phone I get 1TB ? wow did not expect that is amazing. However I'm happy as long as I get my Netflix amazon as keeps the GF happy.
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Not hotspot, you have to watch it ON the phone screen.
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Not hotspot, you have to watch it ON the phone screen.
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Technically though if was to mirror my s6 using mircast I can watch it on the screen as the streaming is still being done on the phone.
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And yet you'll struggle soon to find 4GB for £20 at the top end of the market. With higher data allowances offered as a special offer, now dwindling in size and becoming less lucrative. If anything, data allowances are lowering and using what you claim is the average use of data isn't going to be realistic in the future if things continue on as they are, unless people are prepared to pay for profit making and lucrative for the providers data add-ons. Never mind 80GB or even 8GB!
At a time where phone networks have promoted the use of Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, Internet Radio streaming, social network usage and other data intensive pursuits, people are soon going to have to face the reality and start going on a crash data diet - downloading content at home, disallowing streaming as what streaming apps used to do a few years ago, promoting FM and DAB(+) as an alternative to radio streaming (in Germany, DAB+ is being promoted as a cost free alternative to data streaming where prices are even higher and data allowances stinger than the UK), encouraging offline downloading and purchasing of MP3's as opposed to streaming and minimising downloading of content for social networks and so forth. I've personally abandoned smartphones due to this issue, prices rising, data allowances lowering and until things change, my dumbphone and home internet connection will do for now. The issue is getting the balance between customers not having to worry about getting as Three put it "Bill-Shocks" at the end of the month when the customers bills are generated and allowing customers to use as much data as they like, when unlimited data is offered they will always be subject to Traffic Management such as what Three UK use (Traffic-Sense). Unlimited data will always be a service that certain mobile networks will offer but I can see it been expensive in the future, more like "If you want it you pay the cost for it" Three UK's sim only plans are still respectively priced and affordable in comparison to the mobile phone contract plans.... The One Plan was always a "Enjoy it while you can" service. Customers will understand what the use of large amounts of data is doing to the area when customers are slowed down by people using as the original post |
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It'll happen in the future. Rising data usage and people not prepared to pay inflation busting prices to cover that increasing data usage means something will have to give. The Three I joined a few years ago is a different beast to the Three of today. And the EE's, Vodafone's, O2's and Three's of today will be different to those companies in the future. Particularly now that Three has set a precedent in ending grandfather contracts and asking customers to pay at least twice the price for less data.
They can spare it. |
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I'm on an all ya eat plan with three and 4gb hotspot but as I'm on such a good deal/loyalty price I've tried to reduce my usage loads, don't want them sending me a letter putting up to £30 ha. All tv on Iplayer downloaded on home broadband. Amazon video stuff downloaded at home. Hopefully Netflix allow this soon also. I thought I was a heavy user at 30gb a months but now I'm down to 25gb or lower then il stay put.
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I've personally abandoned smartphones due to this issue, prices rising, data allowances lowering and until things change, my dumbphone and home internet connection will do for now.
Perhaps I should get rid of my computer as my Virgin broadband bill is about to increase. Or I could just change package/provider. |
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You've seriously abandoned your smartphone? I think that's an extreme reaction, but each to their own. Are there honestly no tariffs that suit you, like 4GB for £9 on Three?
Perhaps I should get rid of my computer as my Virgin broadband bill is about to increase. Or I could just change package/provider. If you want an idea of where I think Britain is heading and where prices are higher whilst data allowances are lower, look to Germany. |
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There are other reasons which are well beyond the reason of this thread but yes, data is going to get very expensive because lower data allowances, data add-ons being more financially lucrative and rising prices for both devices and data is going to force people to reconsider their habits. As like the boom and bust times in economics, we've gone through a data boom and the readjustment is going to be painful and people are going to have to reconsider their smartphone habits. 80GB, even 8GB is going to be an expensive or even impossible situation in the future. People will have to consider alternatives - DAB(+), Wi-Fi, offline storage (where phone operators are still not providing an Micro SD card and charging a premium for storage space), limiting the period of time on social networks and so forth.
If you want an idea of where I think Britain is heading and where prices are higher whilst data allowances are lower, look to Germany. |
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Costing you in excess of £100 to buy 80GB to 100GB of data sounds like extortion when considering you received even more than that amount of data as AYCE for £15 to £30.
Start making it available to set top boxes, PCs, consoles etc and usage will likely average 200-300GB or more very easily. It's why the One Plan went, although arguably they could have just axed the unlimited tethering and caused a lot less fuss (and loss of customers). It was mad that Three ever promoted the One Plan as a way to connect other devices via tethering, then later tried to backtrack and say that of course it wasn't meant to replace home/office broadband. I think anyone could have told them that unlimited tethering for £15 a month was mad, but it still did it. I can't blame those who took advantage as that's what Three was offering so why not? |
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Absolutely, when people use their phones it is for a little bit of video, streaming, messenger, app updates and downloads, but when you include broadband in that then people were enabling wifi and using it as their main internet.
he things you might do on a main internet connection are more likely to be long video, iPlayer, Netflix, much bigger app downloads and desktop browser updates, Windows updates can be 100's of MB, etc Ofcom produced an average report of phone data use vs broadband data use, it's more than 10x for broadband and that's why Three no longer off unlimited tethering and put a cap of 30GB on it depending on the plan you're on. |
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Start making it available to set top boxes, PCs, consoles etc and usage will likely average 200-300GB or more very easily.
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Will it? I thought that when unlimited tethering was available on the One Plan, the average data usage was only about 5.5GB per month.
I rather suspect most people on the One Plan never tethered at all, which probably skewed the figures somewhat. |
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