Anyone got a "3" Pay as you go Dongle?

asbokid

hammodt wrote: »

Perhaps it's a VAT refund? Lots of companies are refunding 2.5% VAT because of the temporary VAT reduction.

From the Three website:

[...]

54p (rounded) is the VAT "additional credit" for a £25 spend. Perhaps it thinks you've spent 25 pounds?!

Blimey that was clever of you to work that one out, Monsieur Poirot!

That's exactly what I did do.. I credited the account by £25 and bought a 7GB allowance over the next 30 days.. So the 54p is 2.5% of that.. Not sure I will ever use that Cash TopUp... since the SIM is in a 3G dongle and the cheapest data package costs £10...

Rock_Bottom

Pennysmakepounds wrote: »

...... Could be a free dongle for life....I WISH....lol:rolleyes:

I bet there is somebody somewhere who can "chip them up" .. like they do with mobile phones, free for life but illegal.

andyuk1

I have just got one of these for £4.95 and I can browse for free. An earlier post said something about some sites are free. I can also check my POP3 email so this is looking good. Free Broadband bring it on!!:T

andyuk1

andyuk1 wrote: »

I have just got one of these for £4.95 and I can browse for free. An earlier post said something about some sites are free. I can also check my POP3 email so this is looking good. Free Broadband bring it on!!:T

Just noticed my Dongle Box says Prepay, that might be the reason for free access ?

asbokid

andyuk1 wrote: »

Just noticed my Dongle Box says Prepay, that might be the reason for free access ?

#Sounds like you got a very good deal if you got some allowance as well! What does it say you've got for credit at http://www.three.co.uk/my3

Plushchris

Mine says prepay on the box too, using it to post this and I havent topped up.

When I go to my account at the three website it says there are no free credits for this mobile!

asbokid

Plushchris wrote: »

Mine says prepay on the box too, using it to post this and I havent topped up.

When I go to my account at the three website it says there are no free credits for this mobile!

I can't think Three have screwed up and are forgetting to bill people... They are perhaps letting you have a taster.. That said there is no PPP authentication as such... you can use any username/password combination and any authentication method (CHAP, PAP, MSCHAP, etc..) and it still says authentication successful.. I guess that Three must be authenticating only on the ICCID of the SIM card... Maybe they sent out the wrong batch of SIMs with the free dongles, and you've got a 12 month pre-paid one!

alanwsg

I've just ot one of the free dongles, works fine. I've put £10 of credit on it so my account shows 1024Mb of data but I notice it isn't going down as I use it. I've downloaded around 20Mb so I'd expect to see some change.

BTW: Anyone know how the data is "counted", is it just downloads or upload+download, or what?

Pennysmakepounds

mine has stopped working.

Going to top up later

the free ride is over.

MyUserNamesTaken

You can unlock this modem (the ZTE) for free, without using DC Unlocker and without paying someone on Ebay. I posted a thread with the download link just here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1703797

Instructions are the download. It's easy to do and it won't cost you a penny.