3 Network any good?

Possibly but as you say, bit of a hassle for that amount, I'd already be saving over £20 a month via this so I guess the bulk of the savings have already been accounted for!
 
Hmm looks like I will have to run the Vodafone contract until its end in April, Vodafone won't give me a PAC code unless I pay the £52 odd for “early termination” even though he did confirm if I did get the code I can continue using my current contract until its end so why they couldn’t give me the code and just sit tight until April and I’d continue paying as normal I don’t know.

Meh!
 
3 have been been brilliant for me, data speed are fantastic.

I got a SGS2 500 mins 3000txts & 1gb internet for £17 a month :D
 
3 have been great since I joined, I reguarly get 600kbs download speeds in my area. Much better than all the other providers I've been on!
 
mrk said:
Hmm looks like I will have to run the Vodafone contract until its end in April, Vodafone won't give me a PAC code unless I pay the £52 odd for “early termination” even though he did confirm if I did get the code I can continue using my current contract until its end so why they couldn’t give me the code and just sit tight until April and I’d continue paying as normal I don’t know.

Meh!
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PACs are only valid for 30 days, IIRC
 
Ah well, not going to complain now I guess :p

Sim arrived today, damn fast shipping?

Activated a moment ago and had a quick check, full bars reception on HSPA, initial speed test at home reports up to 2Mb up and down which isn't great but with Vodafone I get 2 bars HSPA with similar speeds. I will leave it now until March/April when I can get my PAC code and then sort it out properly, I just manually punched in APN settings etc and I think there are some other things to tweak (such as the modem firmware I've currently got installed).

Good stuff! If anything, the full reception means less power drain when connected to the mobile network because the phone's not having to work to keep a signal alive in weak reception areas.
 
JAMAL said:
3 have been been brilliant for me, data speed are fantastic.

I got a SGS2 500 mins 3000txts & 1gb internet for £17 a month :D
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A little OT but thats a dam good deal. I ugraded on the 12th feb.

Got a free GS2

500mins
5000 texts
All you can eat data

for £30 a month

Previous to that it was free Nokia E72
600mins
5000texts
1gb
£25 a month and I was using the 2gb internet add-on @ £5 a month
 
I might add all you can eat down the line for an extra £3 so £13 a month but for now I think 1GB is more than enough. I don't exceed the 500MB that Vodafone has now so I think I should be fine!
 
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Can you guys tell me if there are any problems cutting 3 sims to micro sim? I kind of remember they used to call them differently few years back, usim, or something, does that affect iphone "cut-compatibility" of it?
 
mrk said:
Ah well, not going to complain now I guess :p

Sim arrived today, damn fast shipping?

Activated a moment ago and had a quick check, full bars reception on HSPA, initial speed test at home reports up to 2Mb up and down which isn't great but with Vodafone I get 2 bars HSPA with similar speeds. I will leave it now until March/April when I can get my PAC code and then sort it out properly, I just manually punched in APN settings etc and I think there are some other things to tweak (such as the modem firmware I've currently got installed).

Good stuff! If anything, the full reception means less power drain when connected to the mobile network because the phone's not having to work to keep a signal alive in weak reception areas.
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Yeah I can definitely vouch for their signal strength. It puts my orange phone to shame. I was able to stream online radio for 4 hours continuously over hspa on a journey between London and Preston... And it only dropped out for a total of about 30seconds over the whole journey. Very impressed.
 
mrk said:
I might add all you can eat down the line for an extra £3 so £13 a month but for now I think 1GB is more than enough. I don't exceed the 500MB that Vodafone has now so I think I should be fine!
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I manage to go through 1gb+ a month, I probably spend more time browsing etc on my phone than I do on my PC
 
v0n said:
Can you guys tell me if there are any problems cutting 3 sims to micro sim? I kind of remember they used to call them differently few years back, usim, or something, does that affect iphone "cut-compatibility" of it?
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µSim means microsim. µ is the symbol for micro :).

Like how µTorrent is actually microTorrent, not youTorrent :) (I still call it youTorrent though :p).

Edit: Actually, the microTorrent thing might not be right. The Original programmer says here that he calls it youTorrent, even though he used the micro symbol :p.

ludde said:
Good question.

It could be one of those:
* you-torrent
* microtorrent (because µ means micro)
* mytorrent (because µ is pronounced like my)

I don't really know how it's pronounced big_smile
I usually say "you torrent" because it looks like a u.

/Ludde
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Bloomfield said:
µSim means microsim. µ is the symbol for micro :).
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That's not what I mean. When three started, their sims, which they called USIM (not µSim) in their literature were definitely different to regular sims as almost none of the GSM phones at the time recognised them (not just - not find network - they just wouldn't see them as valid sims).

I wanted to get the sim only 600 with unlimited net package from 3, which after quidco discount offers a lot of cheapness, but is not available as micro sim (for micro sims they only seem to have 300 tariffs for the same money).

So what i meant was - does "3" still have some weird shape/pinout in their sims on can their regular sized sims/usims (whatever they now have) be cut down to micro sim with scissors like any other full size sims in the country.
 
The same plant that makes micro SIMs also makes USIMs these days, they just add more plastic so you're fine to cut them up but you are right, USIM = 3G SIM card basically, micro SIM is just related to their size, it's still a standard USIM.
 
I've been having a play on the sim tonight and I am impressed so far. Some key differences I found:

1. The 3 App is better than the Vodafone app, it allows full control of my account and provides useful info on what to do when I want to 'do stuff', it also just works, no need to log in etc.

2. Data speed seems excellent at home where Voda gives me 2-3Mb down:
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3. The automated voices on 3 are faster paced than Vodafone's, I dislike having to wait and listen to options, 3's system is slick, I set my Voicemail up within seconds, for example.

4. I actually have 1.17GB of data allowance a month according to the account area and 3500 texts instead of 1GB and 3000 that I've signed up to!

I look forward to having 12 months of good service to be honest!

I might just pay the early termination charge with Voda and get my PAC early :p
 
mrk said:
I've been having a play on the sim tonight and I am impressed so far. Some key differences I found:

1. The 3 App is better than the Vodafone app, it allows full control of my account and provides useful info on what to do when I want to 'do stuff', it also just works, no need to log in etc.


3. The automated voices on 3 are faster paced than Vodafone's, I dislike having to wait and listen to options, 3's system is slick, I set my Voicemail up within seconds, for example.

4. I actually have 1.17GB of data allowance a month according to the account area and 3500 texts instead of 1GB and 3000 that I've signed up to!

I look forward to having 12 months of good service to be honest!

I might just pay the early termination charge with Voda and get my PAC early :p
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I think you've got that allowance at the moment because you joined part way through the month so that will have to cover you till the end of March.

If I remember rightly!

I like the 3 app it isn't too bad sometimes it fails to load though.
 
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