iD Mobile - is it any good?

stockhausen

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I have been using iD Mobile for the past month or so. When first I started using it, it was fine with a strong, reliable signal. However, for the past week the signal keeps going and then coming back some hours later; this is not just losing 4G, there is no signal at all.

As I understand it, iD Mobile uses the "3" network and it was on that basis and the one month contract that I decided to go with it.

Is iD Mobile actually awful or is this just some temporary glitch? If the latter, is "3" equally bad and what provider is likely to be the best and with a reasonable monthly cost.
 
My experience with Three is that they were decent in London around 2013-2014 when I was with them. Not long after however everything went downhill. Slower speeds, horrible at dealing with network congestion, no 2g fallback, masts going out of commission (towers around my way in North London were offline for nearly a month THREE TIMES). I left them after that and went to EE and haven't looked back since.

Reception, signal quality and speed etc are heavily effected by where you are though. I've seen a bunch of happy 3/iD mobile users out of London in say Manchester, Stoke, Bath over at XDA. The general status quo however is that iD mobile are terrible, but there are horror stories about everything network. I personally love EE but there are some who wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

Why don't buy a PAYG Vodafone and EE sim and see how reliable they are. They are the only two networks I'd sign with personally. EE can be a bit steep but they offer some really good retention deals and have good new customer offers often. Maybe check out HUKD
 
I've been with 3 for years and they've always been excellent. I live in the countryside so while I can get 4g it's not great but I still a decent enough signal and speed with 3G. Maybe try a rolling monthly contract with 3 to see if they're any better.
 
I would love to be able to use PAYG to evaluate Three, Vodafone, EE, O2 and even GiffGaff.
However, it isn't really practical to keep getting my 'phone number changed back and forth.
 
stockhausen said:
I would love to be able to use PAYG to evaluate Three, Vodafone, EE, O2 and even GiffGaff.
However, it isn't really practical to keep getting my 'phone number changed back and forth.
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Why would you change phone numbers? just put the sim card in your phone for a bit and see how the signal is. It pretty much is the only way you're going to know.
 
I use 3 currently and have no issues my Mrs has ID mobile and i always see her signal is lower than mine, i even tried her sim in my phone and mine in hers with the same results, she also loses signal completely when i still have mine, Being the use the same network I'm not sure how this can be, but i wouldn't recommend ID
 
insane200 said:
I use 3 currently and have no issues my Mrs has ID mobile and i always see her signal is lower than mine, i even tried her sim in my phone and mine in hers with the same results, she also loses signal completely when i still have mine, Being the use the same network I'm not sure how this can be, but i wouldn't recommend ID
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Are you both using the same model of phone?

Moved my mum from Virgin to ID, fine for her not noticed any signal drop.

£5pm, 2.5GB 4G data (with rollover) enough for her Facebook shenanigans, 5000 texts and 250 mins of voice.
 
hyperseven said:
Are you both using the same model of phone?

Moved my mum from Virgin to ID, fine for her not noticed any signal drop.

£5pm, 2.5GB 4G data (with rollover) enough for her Facebook shenanigans, 5000 texts and 250 mins of voice.
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No, but as i said in my earlier post i tried her Sim in my phone and had the same issues as her phone, her phone was fine with my 3 sim.
 
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