All Three One Plans to be cancelled from today

Just to chuck my tuppence in here, I have had a 3 SIM (One Plan) @ £12/month for a few years now, well out of original 12 months. I rarely tether, but suspect usage will increase as new car will snaffle phone's data connection for various stuff.
No contact from 3, so fingers crossed it stays that way :)
 
Just had a long phone call to Three about this

they have confused me even more than before I rang them
I ask whether they intend changing my contract form unlimited to a capped one even though I want to keep my current contract as it is

he tells me they no longer offer unlimited tethering

I ask well my contract is now expired by one week and according to you website if I keep my contract and carry on paying the bill each month the contract will never alter

he then tells me that the only thing changing is no more new contracts with unlimited

he does not seem to grasp my current contract is ongoing and again referred him to what the website says

20 minutes later of much the same he tells me that unless I get a text it wont change as the powers that be know they are going to lose a lot of customers with this so If I dont get the text in all probability they will come to some kind of agreement with me

so your guess is as good as mine as to what that means
 
kevpuk said:
Just to chuck my tuppence in here, I have had a 3 SIM (One Plan) @ £12/month for a few years now, well out of original 12 months. I rarely tether, but suspect usage will increase as new car will snaffle phone's data connection for various stuff.
No contact from 3, so fingers crossed it stays that way :)
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I'm on the same plan and it's a rolling monthly one now for £12. I've been using tethering for small amounts (1gb for about 3 days) whilst away from home as I stay at hotels whilst visiting my other half. Just got here and imagine my surprise - I can no longer tether anymore. Three website says that I can get a 1gb bolt on for £5.99.

Cheers guys, after three years with them I now have to look elsewhere :/
 
Kainz said:
I'm on the same plan and it's a rolling monthly one now for £12. I've been using tethering for small amounts (1gb for about 3 days) whilst away from home as I stay at hotels whilst visiting my other half. Just got here and imagine my surprise - I can no longer tether anymore. Three website says that I can get a 1gb bolt on for £5.99.

Cheers guys, after three years with them I now have to look elsewhere :/
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You still get 4GB a month of tethering with an unlimited phone data plan.

As for looking elsewhere - where? Three are leading the market with their data allowance to price ratio, unfortunately this attracted people who wanted to use their mobile data like a landline, hence this change.

That MoneySavingExpert thread is amazing, people paying £8 for unlimited tethered data feeling they should be wooed as valued customers. Come on now.
 
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Caged said:
You still get 4GB a month of tethering with an unlimited phone data plan.

As for looking elsewhere - where? Three are leading the market with their data allowance to price ratio, unfortunately this attracted people who wanted to use their mobile data like a landline, hence this change.

That MoneySavingExpert thread is amazing, people paying £8 for unlimited tethered data feeling they should be wooed as valued customers. Come on now.
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I've been told that EE app apparently don't care what you do with your data - that is to say what you do with your allowance data and this includes tethering. I can't really check their price plans or anyone's ATM as I'm currently away from home. I do recall their 4g plans being rather expensive though.

I'm currently on a cheap Sim 200 monthly play which I pay £13 for. This obviously gets me 200 mins and all you can eat data. For the past year and a half I've used it for tethering when away from home for small amounts of data until all this kicked off.

Right now I'm typing this on my iPad 3 that has an old 3 sim in it. I just topped that up with 500mb for £2.99. Should last me until sometime tomorrow.
 
Because EE and others don't offer unlimited data plans simple as! those that do such as virgin etc don't even do tethering so its a simple case of choosing whats best for you, for me im more than happy to say with three and 4gb of tetering
 
I recently paid £15 for the three plan unlimited data 4gb Tethering a month 200 minutes and I think unlimited texts. They also do a zero credit option so I don't then get any surprises. I think that's as good a deal as out there (ignore giff gaff their data was a joke.. He came from them).
 
tals said:
I recently paid £15 for the three plan unlimited data 4gb Tethering a month 200 minutes and I think unlimited texts. They also do a zero credit option so I don't then get any surprises. I think that's as good a deal as out there (ignore giff gaff their data was a joke.. He came from them).
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Still away from home so I'll check their site later. That plan however isn't bad for what I require at all. I pay £12.90 for my 200mins, unlimited plan that HAD tethering. I could stretch to £15 I suppose as I'd never hit 4gb and I only tether about once/twice a month for small amounts.
 
So has anyone with the 4gb of tethering actually tried to use it?

In my experience they can't tell the difference between every bit of data that is used, so when I paid for 1gb of tethering it stuck at like 100mb used or so even though I used around 20gb in a week...
 
Shock as company who care about making money find new way to screw over their customers in order to make more money, to be fair it was only a matter of time :(

I used to have unlimited data on my Blackberry (remember them? lol) and tether it to my laptop when out the office.


Bradmax57 said:
Because EE and others don't offer unlimited data plans simple as!
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EE/Voda used too, but again profiteering took hold :(
 
Jonny ///M said:
I can confirm that using a different apn has worked for me when I hit my tethering limit of 2gb.

Changing three. Co. UK to something to do with Internet...
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Three have more than 1 APN for mobile data usage on PAYM? What's the other apart from three.co.uk? [EDIT] - You sure you're talking about the APN address and not the type of APN?
In my experience they can't tell the difference between every bit of data that is used, so when I paid for 1gb of tethering it stuck at like 100mb used or so even though I used around 20gb in a week...
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I left Orange 3 years ago now but even as far back as 2008 it wasn't too tough. Hop counts, traffic type, headers, it's not really that hard. You think your phone checks into time.microsoft.com very much? :D
 
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Yup Myshra is right (as usual :D) - there are plenty of ways for them to tell what kind of traffic it is, I used to work for a telco on those platforms.
 
Thank you, this is some serious kung fu stuff you found here - knowing this interaction sorta reveals how three's RADIUS/CDR collector system works. Always good to know more about your competitors ;)
 
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