UK Three phone network
 

i'm looking at migrating from T-Mobile to Three.
I've just got a month-by-month sim with them and for five quid less a month (£15) I get a few less talk-time 'minutes' to non-three phones, free voicemail, free calls to customer service and I don't suffer from the various data usage restrictions (no IM, VoIP etc) that T-mo have.
Also, in my tests my bandwith has gone from ~3Mb/s to ~8Mb/s

I've heard abnecdotal warnings about network coverage and quality but I heard similar horror stories about T-Mo and had no problems.

Does anyone have any up to dat experience with them?

Oh, and yes, the Three SIM card bug has definately been fixed ;)

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no idea but you can give it a try and then share your experience here. People experienced different outcome. I am on Vodafone Network and it is great. I got more 3G signal and coverage than my N95

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Works fine for me with a 3 PAYG SIM. The free data allowance (100MB for 90 days with every top-up) is more than enough for my needs.

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i was with three for 18 months with unlimited allowance and got nowhere.Swithched to t mobile who offer slightly less for the same money and have good coverage compared to 3.With 3 my connection was hap hazard all thr time and varied massively, much more stable with t mobile and less (missing connection).

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That's ex€tly what I am planning on doing. I figured that if It's rubbish then I'm only £15 down, but I figured I'd see what other opinions are out there.

I've had it only a day and tried it in two locations with no issues and am trying to suppress my urge to get a pac code right now ;)

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Heh, you just reminded me that I has a little disagreement with the shop assistant who ikmplied that there's no way I could reasonably reach the 1GB transfer cap. not much of a challenge if you ask me.

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I am with t-mobile uk, i used to have 2 contracts with them before i had wifi and both contracts had web n walk plus (3gb per month) and i went over my limit on both sims a lot, yes i used over 6gb of data lol, and that was with a nokia n96, so be careful now we have a full web browser it will eat a lot more data.

*note i used to upload/download a lot of files per month, web browsing alone would not amount to this much data. ;)

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You should be getting 150MB: http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go...obile_internet

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I have contracts on both Vodafone and 3. Surprisingly, I've never had a problem in terms of receiving a signal with 3 but with Vodafone, it won't cut off but just constantly fluctuate between the range of 2G and 3.5G.

It does help that I'm in London though.

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Yeah im having major problems with voda uk, The service is terrible and they dnt give a damn. 3uk data speeds are great in Croydon where i use a pay as you go and get £5 internet add on. But i must say that o2 is rock solid for data. But 3uk payg is by far the best for data, calls can be sketchy tho.