3 PAYG seems cheaper than 1m contract - what am I not getting?

Gromitt

Obviously not getting something here: wanting to try out 3 for a couple of months to see if its better than the constant "No Service" I'm getting with EE.

Don't want to spend more than £20/month and need approx 4GB data, couple hundred minutes, few hundred texts, so dug up the following 1 month contracts:

4 GB/600 minutes/unlim texts: £19 (way too many minutes)
Unlimited/200 minutes/unlim texts: £20 (£1 extra seems worth it)
Calls outside minutes (to UK): 35p/min

But if I instead go for PAYG:

Unlimited data/300 minutes/3000 texts: £20
Calls outside minutes (to UK): 3p/min

Seems the best plan for me is PAYG?

sdduk

Gromitt wrote: »

Obviously not getting something here: wanting to try out 3 for a couple of months to see if its better than the constant "No Service" I'm getting with EE.

Don't want to spend more than £20/month and need approx 4GB data, couple hundred minutes, few hundred texts, so dug up the following 1 month contracts:

4 GB/600 minutes/unlim texts: £19 (way too many minutes)
Unlimited/200 minutes/unlim texts: £20 (£1 extra seems worth it)
Calls outside minutes (to UK): 35p/min

But if I instead go for PAYG:

Unlimited data/300 minutes/3000 texts: £20
Calls outside minutes (to UK): 3p/min

Seems the best plan for me is PAYG?

No teething on PayG

You get teething on all three contracts also unlimited Text and free 0800 numbers.

Futuristic

sdduk wrote: »

No teething on PayG

You get teething on all three contracts also unlimited Text and free 0800 numbers.

All mobile providers offer free calls to 0800 now, law.

NiftyDigits

sdduk wrote: »

No teething on PayG

You get teething on all three contracts also unlimited Text and free 0800 numbers.

That would be tethering.

mobilejunkie

Maybe they get a baby phone with the contract.

Semple

NiftyDigits wrote: »

That would be tethering.

I was wondering what this new "teething" was.

corf999

No service with EE almost certainly means no service with Three due to their mast sharing agreements (MBNL)

d123

corf999 wrote: »

No service with EE almost certainly means no service with Three due to their mast sharing agreements (MBNL)

I would agree, all Three masts are in MBNL, but not all EE masts are so its technically possible to get better coverage on EE than Three, but not the other way around.

Of course, 4G isn't included, and here EE have significantly more coverage and capacity than Three.

WellKnownSid

In remote / rural areas, EE also has a legacy of 2G coverage to fall back on, which you won't get on 3.

diamonds

d123 wrote: »

I would agree, all Three masts are in MBNL, but not all EE masts are so its technically possible to get better coverage on EE than Three, but not the other way around.

Of course, 4G isn't included, and here EE have significantly more coverage and capacity than Three.

For now, if 3 buy o2 then 900mhz backs up 800mhz.

Ofcom really need to make a decision on o2, in my opinion that should have been before BT approval with EE.


BT now has a monopoly however Ofcom wish to state not, bet the 3 o2 merger is put across as anti competitive AFTER EE/BT where as before BT approval it would be less anti competitive.



Ofcom has bent over backwards for 3 home countries Monopolies, BT and EE owners France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom.


If 3 get o2 approval you bet its restrictions will be massive compared to BT. Licences will have to be given up, much more than EE or BT had to with 4G spectrum or merger.

Gromitt

d123 wrote: »

so its technically possible to get better coverage on EE than Three, but not the other way around.

Of course, 4G isn't included, and here EE have significantly more coverage and capacity than Three.

Then maybe you can explain why, inside a building, I can regularly get service and data on a friends phone (on 3) whilst I can't on EE. Surely it should be the other way around?