Samba Mobile Closing Down

Herongull

slenderkitten wrote: »

my paid alternative is giff gaff pay as you go 3gb data for £12.50, its the best deal out there.

Lyca mobile is cheaper. Their Data 12 (3Gb data bundle) is £12
http://www.lycamobile.co.uk/en/bundles?id=4

[Deleted User]

So they ware told to pay the same price but they business model was screwed.

And i have seen the wholesales rates for three and they are vary low priced.
But i can not say much but this should of worked unless they was high fraud rate.

buglawton

marvin wrote: »

I am still using my old Vodafone K3565 dongle from many years ago for broadband on the move.

It came with no time limits, keep account alive by using every 6 months, but £15 top up gives 1GB data. Still on my second top up (about £14 left) certainly had it for 6 years or so.

If you can find an old one of these, with the original old sim it may do the trick.

The new ones have time limits 30 days etc.

I have to keep installing the software on my W8 PC as it is no longer supported on this system but as I use it infrequently this is not a big problem.

Really? Vodafone pulled the plug on this one - and disconnected exising users - many months ago, without taking the effort to inform the actual customers.
So is your SIM still working?

buglawton

Herongull wrote: »

With 3 2 1, you also get 150Mb free each time you top up. So if you top up £5 every two months say (=£2.50 per month), then data is free the first month (up to 150MB) and 1p per MB the second month.

AFAIK Three 3 2 1 only works in phones but you can tether the tablet to the phone.

Getting mixed experience here, some while back I found that hotspot tethering to phone was firmly blocked. Now finding that my iPad will tether via Bluetooth to the phone with a 321 SIM in it. Be great to know if this was going to work going forwards.

kar999

buglawton wrote: »

Really? Vodafone pulled the plug on this one - and disconnected exising users - many months ago, without taking the effort to inform the actual customers.
So is your SIM still working?

He must be one of the lucky ones to escape the noose. There are a few threads on caravan and vodafone forums where people have had bucket loads of "unexpiring" data credit "taken" off them by vodafone.

Mine just stopped working... I can't remember how much unexpired credit I had on it but if I now use it, it just goes straight to the Vodafone top-up options landing page.. which now only shows expiring data options. :mad:

System

When I wrote yesterday about 1.30pm :-

Just discovered Samba Mobile from elsewhere. On first read, it looks OK, but then again so did Ovivo but it collapsed before I could try it.

and now, bigger me, they're done it again !.

All I want, like many others, is a data only for occasional use in a tablet (galaxy tab 3).

marvin

buglawton wrote: »

Really? Vodafone pulled the plug on this one - and disconnected exising users - many months ago, without taking the effort to inform the actual customers.
So is your SIM still working?

It was last time I used it about 3 - 4 months ago.

marvin

buglawton wrote: »

Really? Vodafone pulled the plug on this one - and disconnected exising users - many months ago, without taking the effort to inform the actual customers.
So is your SIM still working?

It would seem it now connects but does not send or receive data.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

anselld wrote: »

Well I am posting this via SAMBA Mobile so it doesn't seem closed yet for existing credit.

I was referring to the Samba site.

Samba Mobile works through 3Mobile, so maybe they are honouring existing credit.

Terry98

Herongull wrote: »

Lyca mobile is cheaper. Their Data 12 (3Gb data bundle) is £12
http://www.lycamobile.co.uk/en/bundles?id=4

That's a good deal if the data does not have an expiry date.

I assume it doesn't expire but I cannot find any confirmation on their site.