There will be a lot of changes to mobile plans across months to come, because from 2015 no operator can charge for roaming across Europe. Wherever you go in EU, any usage must be counted as part of your plan/free minutes/allowances etc. You can easily imagine how panicked operators must be about possibility of heavy users just going on holiday and using tethering...
All Three One Plans to be cancelled from today
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Got a source for this? - Considering 2015 is less than 2 months away, i've not heard anything about this.
Besides they wouldn't need to worry, Three for example allow you to use your data in feel at home destinations, but you're capped at 25Gb for the month with no tethering for those that have AYCE plans. It's likely other networks will follow the same suit.
That's quite interesting. However, I would have thought it'd be an end to massive profiteering, rather than an actual exorbitant cost to them, because that's why they've been criticised in the past for charging so much for roaming, because it costs nowhere near what they charge.
Haven't had anything here, but i'll keep my number and take out a sim only in my own name (currently in a parents).
If I cancel it and ask them to make my current sim Pay-as-you-Go, I can then just get them to transfer to my new SIM? Or just ask for my PAC.
If I cancel it and ask them to make my current sim Pay-as-you-Go, I can then just get them to transfer to my new SIM? Or just ask for my PAC.
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Good to know, at least Three can't spout marketing rubbish at us about being the only network to allow you to use your allowance in europe. I suppose it still does have a slight advantage as i can still use my allowance in the USA for no extra charge.
Customers paying the same price for calls, texts, internet etc is not the same thing as having it included in their contract minutes.
So EU charges may be the same as out-of-contract minutes, texts etc which is hardly cheap - for example. Dunno if it will actually happen like that..
So EU charges may be the same as out-of-contract minutes, texts etc which is hardly cheap - for example. Dunno if it will actually happen like that..
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Just because you don't, it doesn't mean others don't.
And they're allowed to, on Three or any other unlimited broadband provider.
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I will just VPN and then three wont know what is mobile data and what is tethered data
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They can tell as soon as you tether, they switch you to another APN.
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This would work... a straight forward 50Gb " do as you please " data cap per month would ensure they decimate the competition yet still have a realistic idea of where their bandwidth ceilings would sit without the worry of the special types using it as their home broadband.
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So it looks like despite it's a total bummer that Three are getting rid of unlimited tethering, it still seems like Three's plans are the best out there, even if they aren't as good as what we've been used to.
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There are apps that hide this though
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How? The APN is switched at Three's end, not on the phone.
APN switching? What has that got to do with tethering or not? Three operate two publicly available APNs; one that is pre-configured on a SIM or phone you get from them when taking out a contract or plan, and the other is an APN that is used by their mobile broadband plans. Neither of which are purely designed for "tethering", so I would be highly surprised if Three were switching your connection APN on their end, as your phone is what is requesting the data, not their servers.
It's perfectly simple for a network operator to tell if you're tethering or not, and no app has the functionality to mask it, at least not without an awful lot of effort. Every internet connecting device has a time-to-live (TTL) packet header unique to that device (by device I mean model, not every single device ever made). The operators know what the TTL should be for the device you are using. This value drastically changes if you tether due to the networking hops required to reach DNS servers to lookup website and addresses etc.
Try it for yourself if you wish. Do a tracer route (tracert) on your phone (various apps make this possible), and then tether to a PC or laptop and do it on that device - you'll see a difference. Very simple on the surface of it
