EE or 3Mobile?
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Just remembered: if you going to get Three, get it now, as they may soon be limiting tethering to 10GB a month. It's only a rumor, but it is looking likely.
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Yes, I agree. I hope EE go unlimited one day.
Heard the same thing...from a three sales rep.
I'm in a similar quandry. The whole '4G vs. coverage' seems a bit like the 'great screen vs. battery life' issue.
Basically, what I'm looking for is great coverage from my network. 4G sounds great but I can live without it for the next few months.
My T-Mobile/EE contract is up for renewal so I'm sticking with them (via a much better pay monthly deal on Virgin) as their coverage is decent in my area. 3G only though.
I'll wait for the 4G hype and prices to settle down. I simply don't need 4G at the moment.
Basically, what I'm looking for is great coverage from my network. 4G sounds great but I can live without it for the next few months.
My T-Mobile/EE contract is up for renewal so I'm sticking with them (via a much better pay monthly deal on Virgin) as their coverage is decent in my area. 3G only though.
I'll wait for the 4G hype and prices to settle down. I simply don't need 4G at the moment.
Fair play. I'm using EE and Three concurrently (and Voda) and so far I can't say there's been much of a gulf in terms of coverage between Three and EE...Voda is awful...
The £20 '3' deal is very tempting though.
Flexibility re. unlimited data and 4G when I want it too.
Hmmmm....
It is. Only compatible with Three and EE.
Worth mentioning that because of the frequency used by Three, their signal indoors can be quite poor. However, as the 800MHz band will be used by Three's LTE, indoor signal will hopefully improve. This said, I've found in my area that poor signal on Three is still far better than the likes of O2 with a strong signal...
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Ah yes, just checked. The variant in the UK uses 850, 1800 and 2100, with EE using 1800/2600 and 3 using just 1800 at the moment (800 planned for both). Guess OP will be fine with 3 then, assuming he can get 4G in his area...
Just popped into the 3 shop and there's also a £15.90 sim only 12-month contract with unlimited data and 4G!
Considering I was tempted by a Virgin £15 per month rolling contract on 3G only, that '3' contract seems exactly what I want.
Is the £15.90 got a lot of sms and calls?
Virgin is capped at 3.5GB per month fair usage
The £15.90 deal on Three has:
•All-you-can-eat data
•600 minutes (Not brilliant but fine for me)
•5,000 texts
•12 months
http://store.three.co.uk/view/searchSimOnly?tariff=2917&intid=3storephrbn1335
The £15 deal on Virgin is unlimited everything (minutes, text, data). It's also a rolling monthly contract so I wouldn't be tied into a long deal. But it does have a fair usage policy of 3.5GB per month (which is fine for my level of use). They won't cut you off once you've reached the fair usage limit, just throttle the speed:
http://store.virginmedia.com/virgin-media-mobile/sim-only/pay-monthly-sim.html
The advantage for me with the Three deal is the ability to upgrade to 4G at no extra cost when it's available in my area. Also no data limit. Because of that I don't mind being tied into a 12-month deal.
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I hardly use that a week with my fibre connection at home! (unless I watch movies at the weekend or download/backup to the cloud).Is it your sole connection to the internet?
Is it your sole connection to the internet?
In fairness, I've was staying in hotels for 2 nights for work...but three gave me a better speed than the hotel wifi so I thought why not just tether...In the last 3 days I've totalled 12gb of data usage....
No throttling no nothing...my home connection is a 40mb sky line....
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I'd probably do the same in your position. That's actually not bad at all. I only get a puny 5Gb a month but I only pay £20 and I seldom use more than 1/2 of that as I'm always in an environment where I have wifi 
Though last month at home I did use over 340Gb in a month so that equates to over 10gb a day - I can't imagine getting that through a mobile device unless I tethered and downloaded movies/music etc....
Good going!
Though last month at home I did use over 340Gb in a month so that equates to over 10gb a day - I can't imagine getting that through a mobile device unless I tethered and downloaded movies/music etc....
Good going!
I've taken out the Three contract today in preference over Virgin (and EE - though nothing they could offer came close).
One thing to clarify is that the £15.90 contract doesn't allow tethering. They have a £20 which does allow tethering but this may be nerfed pretty soon.