Three Mobile are THROTTLING All You Can Eat Data

gizmoy2k · 31 May 2012 at 11:36

For every one of you poor guys that has been throttled theres probably 100 on each cell celebrating that they have signal again

3 is a mobile network, never designed or anticipated for downloading the likes of torrents and steam on it.

Unlimited should stay for mobile devices, they should put a reasonable speed and data cap on tethering ~15gb or there about on the right tariff

gouldy · 31 May 2012 at 16:38

gizmoy2k said:
For every one of you poor guys that has been throttled theres probably 100 on each cell celebrating that they have signal again

3 is a mobile network, never designed or anticipated for downloading the likes of torrents and steam on it.

Unlimited should stay for mobile devices, they should put a reasonable speed and data cap on tethering ~15gb or there about on the right tariff

yep, i could only get max 2 mbps in my house, and all today and yesterday ive been getting nearly 6 mbps

Nathan · 31 May 2012 at 18:19

Excellent news. Get a Wired connection at home you ******.

MarkDavis · 1 Jun 2012 at 08:20

"We’re calling it All-you-can-eat Data, and it’s not like anything you’ll see from anyone else. Unlike other data plans, there are no restrictions and no crafty ‘fair usage’ policies containing hidden data caps. We’re leaving behind the ‘old mobile’ world of limits and allowances in favour of a new world that gives you the freedom to use your smartphone to do everything it was designed for without the worry of cost.

Our new world has no data restrictions, you can use as much as you want and we’ll never charge you a penny more.

If you’ve been to all-you-can-eat restaurants before, you’ll already be familiar how this works. You pay once, you get as much as you want the first time round, and you can still keep coming back for more. And yes, if you want to use your phone as a dongle (also known as tethering) then you absolutely can. 3 Mobile, December 2010"

Lying bastids. How many of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people did they sign up on this basis at £35pcm?

richthomuk · 1 Jun 2012 at 09:37

Well, on the plus side it can only get better from here right??

Rroff · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:21

Grrrrr said:
With regards tethering, the mobile infrastructure really wasn't set up to cope with the levels used at home on PCs so something probably does need to be a little different in that regard. Why not offer truely unlimited mobile data but with, say, a 3GB cap on tethered data?

Its quite quite easy to hide the fact your tethering - some phones use a method for tethering that the operator can't see as tethering anyway (unless they install intrusive software on the phone). What we might see happen is they lock mobile internet down to very restrictive old school wap style data only which would ruin the experience for a lot of people with newer advanced phones which can work closer to the desktop experience.

Emlyn_Dewar · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:32

Nathan said:
Excellent news. Get a Wired connection at home you ******.

This.
I'm even on this 3 tariff and it does not bother me at all, whilst I've never noticed any slowdown, even after a month streaming music via soundcloud 3 hours a day, I did just assume there'd be a limit set.

Thankfully there is, it's massive downloaders that will be driving up costs or forcing companies to cut their data allowance.

Columbo · 1 Jun 2012 at 14:41

Nathan said:
Excellent news. Get a Wired connection at home you ******.

+1

413x · 1 Jun 2012 at 17:55

Not everyone has that option

Our broadband is worse than 3.

I am still tethering and don't think I'm being throttled 10+ gb per month

Speedtest right now =Yay, 2 megabits on 3, but 0.1 on landline, thank you 3

MarkDavis · 1 Jun 2012 at 21:22

Nathan said:
Get a Wired

Why? That's something from the dark ages. You have to sign up for 12 month phone line and/or broadband contract, you're screwed if you have to move house, you can't use it away from your home, which is the whole point of tethering / hotspots, and prior to this throttling ****, the previous wired broadband service I had was slower than the 3 service.

3 specifically sold the One Plan on the basis that unlike their competitors, its truly unlimited. They should honour the terms and conditions. If you don't understand that, you don't understand anything.

Emlyn_Dewar · 1 Jun 2012 at 23:38

Is there anything in the contract that says they have to honour it though?
Pretty sure my old T Mobile Android Unlimited package actually meant "3gb" or gtfo.

miniyazz · 2 Jun 2012 at 01:00

TBH if they've realised they can't afford to do it, fine. What they should do however is allow you to cancel without penalty, since this is most definitely a detrimental change to the agreement/false advertising allowing cancellation under section 10d.

Deep · 13 Jun 2012 at 21:45

I've had my contract for a week and I've used 525mb. Just ran a speed test and get from 0.19 to 0.41 download and around 1Mbps upload

Have I been throttled?

magick · 14 Jun 2012 at 12:35

Has throttling on three been wrote into the small print of the one plan contract?

bhavv · 24 Jun 2012 at 09:24

Nathan said:
Excellent news. Get a Wired connection at home you ******.

If people are paying for a plan advertised with unlimited tethering, then they should get unlimited tethering. Or why even have minutes, texts, or any kind of free use of your mobile phone if you can just use a landline / PC for all of that?

Wired broadband is **** where I live, my Sky broadband tends to download things at 10% the speed of my T mobile internet. And a landline is locked to one address, what do you do if you travel anywhere or change address?

I have 2000 mins, unlimited texts, and unlimited internet including tethering that can be used anywhere with 3G signal, I paid for this so therefore I get it. I don't get how anyone is piking when they are paying however much is asked for to get such a tariff, just like you're not piking if you post a letter instead of sending a carrier pigeon.

smit101 · 24 Jun 2012 at 09:48

bhavv said:
If people are paying for a plan advertised with unlimited tethering, then they should get unlimited tethering. Or why even have minutes, texts, or any kind of free use of your mobile phone if you can just use a landline / PC for all of that?

Wired broadband is **** where I live, my Sky broadband tends to download things at 10% the speed of my T mobile internet. And a landline is locked to one address, what do you do if you travel anywhere or change address?

I have 2000 mins, unlimited texts, and unlimited internet including tethering that can be used anywhere with 3G signal, I paid for this so therefore I get it. I don't get how anyone is piking when they are paying however much is asked for to get such a tariff, just like you're not piking if you post a letter instead of sending a carrier pigeon.

Well said! Some people still don't realize that not all of us have fixed line broadband available to us and MBB is the only realistic internet connection option (satellite broadband is a rip off and generally ****!) Three's unlimited tethering is a godsend for me, well priced and fast. I can't say I've noticed any throttling yet, but then I only carryout large downloads at off peak times (generally overnight or very early morning).

bhavv · 24 Jun 2012 at 10:49

I can actually get Orange Bradband for £5 through T Mobile now, but also with £13.50 line rental.

But why would I want that when I could pay an extra £5 to up my tariff to unlimited calls, texts, and internet / tethering? Also the landline in my house is owned and paid for by the people that use it, I pay for my own everything on T Mobile.

£36 pm - 2000 mins, unlimited texts and internet including tethering
£41 pm - 100% Unlimited everything.

Landline who? My dirty ex whore that all the stoneage people keep on flirting with?

Its even funnier when you not only dont use a landline anymore, but also you dont own or watch a TV. Can I expect people to say 'Stop using Youtube for entertainment you ***** and buy a TV and TV license?'.

I pay one bill, I get everything with that including the latest smartphone for free every 2 years. The word 'convenience' is an understatement for how fantastic this is. Its just unfortunate we dont have 4G / LTE yet like the USA does.

smit101 · 24 Jun 2012 at 11:21

Hopefully we'll get 4g within the next year or 2. Yeah it's great combining mobile phone bill and internet into one, I'm currently on Three's One Plan but I purchased my contract through a third party as it worked out cheaper, managed to get the Galaxy Note/One plan deal for £31 p/m. It's nice to get a good deal for a change, I was previously using satellite broadband which was pretty poor and very expensive.

If we ever get fixed line broadband out here i'll jump straight on it, but until then I'm quite happy with MBB, don't see why we should be ridiculed and called ****** :confused:

for using the only decent connection method available to us.

thep02 · 24 Jun 2012 at 11:31

smit101 said:
Hopefully we'll get 4g within the next year or 2. Yeah it's great combining mobile phone bill and internet into one, I'm currently on Three's One Plan but I purchased my contract through a third party as it worked out cheaper, managed to get the Galaxy Note/One plan deal for £31 p/m. It's nice to get a good deal for a change, I was previously using satellite broadband which was pretty poor and very expensive.

If we ever get fixed line broadband out here i'll jump straight on it, but until then I'm quite happy with MBB, don't see why we should be ridiculed and called ****** for using the only decent connection method available to us.

Good deal mate. No one's calling you names, you did it the right way on the one plan, others who wanted to save 1/2 quid a month more than you by not having the one plan are being abused, not for breaking "rules" but for nicking data speed off other 3 users you and me included because 3 didn't expect that much data being used in our cells as they didn't see one plans in those areas.

smit101 · 24 Jun 2012 at 11:58

thep02 said:
Good deal mate. No one's calling you names, you did it the right way on the one plan, others who wanted to save 1/2 quid a month more than you by not having the one plan are being abused, not for breaking "rules" but for nicking data speed off other 3 users you and me included because 3 didn't expect that much data being used in our cells as they didn't see one plans in those areas.

Cheers thep02, yeah very pleased with the deal mate, and unlimited internet aside, The Note is an awesome bit of kit, had it a couple of months or so now and I'm still like a kid with a new toy!

I'm probably quite fortunate in that I'm close to a couple of Three cell sites, neither of which seem to be suffering the congestion problems that others are, so living in the sticks can have its advantages afterall. :eek: