Three PAYG Rates Changing

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

Three are changing their PAYG rates - it will now be £25 for 30 days of all you can eat data with minutes and texts.

This increased from £15 to £20 around August last year. So in less than 1 year the price has gone up by a significant percentage.

https://www.threemicrosites.co.uk/allinone/

grumbler

I think "PAYG rates" has to be changed to "PAYG bundles prices"

joeluken

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

Three are changing their PAYG rates - it will now be £25 for 30 days of all you can eat data with minutes and texts.

Three's PAYG rate were 3p per minute, 2p per text and 1p per MB. Have these changed ?

It looks like its changed its bundle prices not its PAYG rates unlike Giffgaff that recently changed its PAYG rates i.e. a 50% increase from 10p to 15p per minute. That's a change in PAYG rates.

Ian011

The increase in the price of inclusive bundles is partly down to the fact that most organisations have swapped their premium 084 and 087 lines over to the matching 034 or 037 number or a new 01, 02, 030 or 033 number. Whenever you call a number on another network your landline or mobile provider has to pay a termination fee to the destination network. The number of calls being made within inclusive allowances has increased significantly in the last couple of years.

A few years ago, inclusive allowances were used mainly for calling family and friends on ordinary landline and mobile numbers. Nowadays the inclusive allowance is also being used for calling customer services, financial services, public services and healthcare services on various 03 numbers. Previously, many of those calls were being made to premium rate non-inclusive 084 or 087 numbers at an extortionate per-minute rate.

Landline providers also offer inclusive call plans. These have unlimited anytime inclusive calls to 01, 02 and 03 numbers. Some also include 071-075 and 077-079 numbers, and this trend will continue. These deals usually cost around £5 to £8 per month. A saving can be had by cutting back your mobile tariff to cover only those calls that you make while away from home and using your landline to make calls while you are at home. Using a landline for calls is very cheap - if you have the right inclusive call plan.

711david1974

Hi

I am new member on this forum.

About these changes to the add ons, it’s not actually a further price increase to the former All In One 15 (now All In One Data), but a data limit to 12GB from AYCE data.

The All In One 25 is a long existing add on with AYCE. Now you are forced to buy this add on in order to still receive AYCE data on PAYG from 31st March which is the sole PAYG package with AYCE data now.

The AYCE data on what was then the All In One 15 was really a great bargain. The increase to All In One 20 with the same offerings last August was more than acceptable, but it’s only 7 months since they changed it to the All In One 20 and now they are tinkering with it. I would say the data limit to 12GB is fine as long as it doesn’t slowly get eroded every few months together with frequent price hikes.

I feel sorry for those who are facing effectively a second price hike in the space of only 7 months just to continue to consume in excess of 12GB’s. It is too soon for them to face a second price hike to receive much what they did before, but also receiving an additional 200 minutes on top they are unlikely to ever use.