Data When Abroad

Buzby

grumbler wrote: »

£5 per day is reasonable for a few days. £150 per month for a few months is not reasonable, especially with a spare phone with a local sim.

Common sense dictates that you would make use of the unlimited nature by connecting every few days - not daily! A spare payg SIM is fine if you can find one (proof of address being the most prevelant) and on the times I did this I still lost out with credit not all being used up before you depart.

grumbler

Apreciar wrote: »

One last point, if the phone is locked to Three would they unlock it for me, as I will not be using any of my substantial allowances in the UK at all but will be still be paying for them.

http://support.three.co.uk/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBISAPI.DLL?Command=New,Kb=Mobile,Ts=Mobile,T=Article,varset_cat=billing,varset_subcat=3772,Case=obj%284363%29

NFH

Buzby wrote: »

Common sense dictates that you would make use of the unlimited nature by connecting every few days - not daily!

If this was "common sense", then why not take the same approach when in the UK? Pay only for data on specific days? Not a sensible approach.

NFH

Apreciar wrote: »

The country is Tenerife

For Spain, get a SIM card from Tuenti. €6.42 per month (€6 + 7% Canaries VAT) isn't bad for 1GB. Forget the other absurd suggestions to spend this much for only one day's data.

J_B

Apreciar wrote: »

........... as I will not be using any of my substantial allowances in the UK at all but will be still be paying for them.

So, why not ask Three to convert it to their sim-zero that I suggested earlier in post #12?

Apreciar

J_B wrote: »

So, why not ask Three to convert it to their sim-zero that I suggested earlier in post #12?

What is a sim-zero?

grumbler

http://3store.uk.com/sim-zero-%E2%80%93-the-only-0-plan-on-the-market/

I don't understand though why on earth would they agree to convert a long expensive pay monthly contract with a phone to a cheap one-month sim-only contract.

Im_just_careful

Given that the original poster has a Spanish Lebara SIM, their data deal http://www.lebara.es/passes/internet (click the Union Jack for English ) looks just the job !

Get the "3" phone unlocked and swap the SIMs.

If the Spanish phone won't accept the "3" SIM because it is locked buy a £10 phone from Carphone Warehouse.

The cost of the "3" contract is partially phone finance and probably a lost cause to attempt to reclaim.

dazzaofdagenham

I'm in Spain at the moment and using a local SIM in my unlocked phone...

Speed isn't fantastic but the calling..texting rates are quite good

J_B

grumbler wrote: »

http://3store.uk.com/sim-zero-%E2%80%93-the-only-0-plan-on-the-market/

I don't understand though why on earth would they agree to convert a long expensive pay monthly contract with a phone to a cheap one-month sim-only contract.

Nor me, but the OP didn't say that they had a "long expensive pay monthly contract" and even if they did have, it would cost nowt to ask if three would defer it.