Three - We need to speak to you about changes to your plan

d123

Sicatrice wrote: »

So, this is down to me then.

I signed up to a contract with 3 for two years purely because they were offering unlimited data for tethering. They were the only company that offered this deal. The One Plan cost me £35 a month plus an HTC One smartphone.

I know of at least three staff members in my local 3 shop who are also on the One Plan and are regularly using 300 gb a month downloading movies.

So, you are saying that after shopping around for a good deal so that I could tether, I shouldn't use it.

Its like buying a car and then not putting any petrol in it, Idiot

Yes, it is down to you, and others like you. This isn't supposed to be a home broadband service, it's a mobile broadband service, to be used when away from the home broadband.

Download your !!!!!! at home on a cabled connection.

Techhead_2

Sicatrice wrote: »

So, this is down to me then.

I signed up to a contract with 3 for two years purely because they were offering unlimited data for tethering. They were the only company that offered this deal. The One Plan cost me £35 a month plus an HTC One smartphone.

I know of at least three staff members in my local 3 shop who are also on the One Plan and are regularly using 300 gb a month downloading movies.

So, you are saying that after shopping around for a good deal so that I could tether, I shouldn't use it.

Its like buying a car and then not putting any petrol in it, Idiot

No it's not, it's like buying a car and then constantly driving around at high speed like a loon, so that you use too much petrol and hog the roads.

Or going to an all you can eat buffet and grabbing all the food, so that there is none left for others.

Sparklytori

I'm on the one unlimited tethering plan...took out a 2 year contract last December. I've not received a text and reading through the posts it's seems your all on the one month rolling sim only one plan.
Have I read that right and do you think I will have the rest of my contract with unlimited data?
It's really handy as when I stay with my mum I can tether my iPad as she doesn't have Internet!
Thanks

simax

As long as you are within your minimum term you will not be affected.

Sparklytori

simax wrote: »

As long as you are within your minimum term you will not be affected.

Thanks Simax. I will still follow this thread with interest as next year I will still need to tether.

Sicatrice

d123 wrote: »

Yes, it is down to you, and others like you. This isn't supposed to be a home broadband service, it's a mobile broadband service, to be used when away from the home broadband.

Download your !!!!!! at home on a cabled connection.

Where does it say in my contract that this is not supposed to be a home broadband service.

When I pay for a service I expect to get it.

I don't have a home telephone, so I can't have "home broadband" and when people like you who start accusing me of downloading !!!!!! shows that you are grasping at straws and have already lost the argument.

All my movie downloading is through Sky's On Demand service, know what that is?

Perhaps you should leave 3 and let us people who purchased a product for a purpose do so.

Sicatrice

Techhead wrote: »

No it's not, it's like buying a car and then constantly driving around at high speed like a loon, so that you use too much petrol and hog the roads.

Or going to an all you can eat buffet and grabbing all the food, so that there is none left for others.

I'm not grabbing all the food.

My AYCE contract tells me that I can download up to 1000 gb a month.

I use about 180 to 200 gb.

Plenty left for you.

gjchester

Sicatrice wrote: »

Perhaps you should leave 3 and let us people who purchased a product for a purpose do so.

I suspect the problem is simply that that when the product was launched there were fewer users of streaming services, and Three aimed it at heavy mobile users.

Your not doing anything wrong, just using it in a way Three never intended, and Three (like others such as GiffGaff ) have found its simply not commercially viable to continue to offer the service. At the end of the day Three are a business, and someone has to pay for the data traffic.


GiffGaff had said one per cent of its customers were responsible for over a third of its data traffic, and when they had unlimited calls some of its customers were racking up 9 continuous days a month of calls. As GiffGaff found out there are always some people who extract the Michael (and I wasn't saying that's you) and so restrictions have to be put in place to ensure others are not impacted or the cost has to increase.

I guess the blame lies with Three, they offered something as a headline grabbing offer, and its now coming back to haunt them. As peoples minimum term comes up they'll slowly move everyone off this tariff and close it down.

chamelion

gjchester wrote: »

I suspect the problem is simply that that when the product was launched there were fewer users of streaming services, and Three aimed it at heavy mobile users.

Your not doing anything wrong, just using it in a way Three never intended, and Three (like others such as GiffGaff ) have found its simply not commercially viable to continue to offer the service. At the end of the day Three are a business, and someone has to pay for the data traffic.


GiffGaff had said one per cent of its customers were responsible for over a third of its data traffic, and when they had unlimited calls some of its customers were racking up 9 continuous days a month of calls. As GiffGaff found out there are always some people who extract the Michael (and I wasn't saying that's you) and so restrictions have to be put in place to ensure others are not impacted or the cost has to increase.

I guess the blame lies with Three, they offered something as a headline grabbing offer, and its now coming back to haunt them. As peoples minimum term comes up they'll slowly move everyone off this tariff and close it down.

NO BUT I WANT UNLIMITED USAGE AND TETHERING I HAVE NO HOME BROADBAND SO USE 300GB A MONTH AND WANT THIS SAME THING AT £15/MONTH I WILL SUE THREE FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT AND CALL UP OFCOM.

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Sicatrice

gjchester wrote: »

I suspect the problem is simply that that when the product was launched there were fewer users of streaming services, and Three aimed it at heavy mobile users.

Your not doing anything wrong, just using it in a way Three never intended, and Three (like others such as GiffGaff ) have found its simply not commercially viable to continue to offer the service. At the end of the day Three are a business, and someone has to pay for the data traffic.


GiffGaff had said one per cent of its customers were responsible for over a third of its data traffic, and when they had unlimited calls some of its customers were racking up 9 continuous days a month of calls. As GiffGaff found out there are always some people who extract the Michael (and I wasn't saying that's you) and so restrictions have to be put in place to ensure others are not impacted or the cost has to increase.

I guess the blame lies with Three, they offered something as a headline grabbing offer, and its now coming back to haunt them. As peoples minimum term comes up they'll slowly move everyone off this tariff and close it down.

Well said.