Unlimited Data Plans on UK Mobile Networks: With No Download Limits

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  Mark Skinner said:

  August 20, 2019 at 9:22 am

  Hello everybody, Just want to let you know of my experiences with Three. I live in a very rural area and landline broadband only delivers approx 1mbps!, so, for the last year I have had Three unlimited data,texts,calls, originally was £27, then they reduced it to£22 after I complained they were lying about 4g coverage ,i only get 1or2 bars on 3g, but it is truly unlimited and unlimited Hotspot, I use an iPhone SE as my hotspot device and run our 2 ipads,laptops and smart tv for streaming Netflix etc, it drops out now and again but still miles better than landline broadband which used to drop out for days!, the only downside is that Three customer service is just beyond disgraceful, I threatened to cancel my contract and they agreed to reduce my monthly bill to £17 – but they have not done this and I am now in the middle of a complaint with them about this as they need to credit me some money but their Indian? Call centre is staffed by a bunch of liars, I have a separate “house” phone/mobile which is with SMARTY (Owned by Three and on the 3 network but with English speaking support staff who actually reply to your emails!), this costs me only £5 per month for unlimited texts and calls, I do not use data on this phone so they reduce the £6.25 monthly bill to £5 – NO CONTRACT REQUIRED WITH SMARTY !, so, my wife has just ordered an Unlimited data/calls/texts/Hotspot SIM from smarty for £18.25 per month, NO CONTRACT REQUIRED – MONTHLY! and we will just take the early cancellation hit from our 3 contract (3 months left), which will actually be worth it just to get away from their disgraceful customer service, so, getting rid of 3 but staying with them at the same time! So, suggest you all consider SMARTY! If anybody has any questions I would be only too happy to answer if I can! P.s. this is a great site btw, well done!

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    Ken replied:

    August 20, 2019 at 6:04 pm

    Hi Mark,
    Thanks for your kind feedback, and for sharing your experiences of using Three for home broadband 🙂 I agree that the unlimited data deal from SMARTY is currently great value, given it’s presently discounted to £18.25/month.
    Whilst you might want to cancel your Three contract a bit early, I would advise against doing this if you’re at all able. They’ll charge you a hefty early exit fee, which is equivalent to paying for another 3 months (less a small 20% discount). Given you’ll need to pay for those three months anyway, I’d at least try to use the service rather than paying them and getting nothing in return! You can then cancel your Three contract at a later date through the PAC Code or STAC Code process without needing to talk to anyone in their call centre.
    Ken

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    Jeff replied:

    August 21, 2019 at 8:10 am

    Hii doesn’t smarty use three network? How good is it

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      Mark Skinner replied:

      August 21, 2019 at 9:49 am

      Like I said in my post ,SMARTY is owned by Three and on the Three network, so it is as good as Three, like I said, I only get 1/2 bars of 3g which is still miles better than the 1mbps landline broadband would give me.

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  Sammy said:

  August 19, 2019 at 9:58 pm

  Hi

  I would like to add my personal experience regarding Virgin unlimited contract, even though they state in their advertising “truly unlimited” the back haul team will disconnect your data connection you if you consistently use about 800gig a month.
  When i was with them there was no fair use limit in the terms and conditions and when this was pointed out to customer services and also reminding them i was on a truly unlimited contract it made no difference as they kept stating i was using to much data. The UK customer services is very poor and is based abroad.
  Others have said they have had no issue but “truly unlimited” it is not and if i had more time i would of complained to the Ofcom aswell as the ASA.

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  Simon said:

  July 27, 2019 at 11:02 pm

  Firstly I have to say that this is a truly epic site. I am as impressed with it as much as Techmoan (for dashcams etc.) which is saying something!
  Outstanding job, Ken, quite outstanding. I hope that you derive financial benefit from the site either directly or indirectly. Perhaps you should set up a ‘tip jar’.

  I would really appreciate any thoughts on this deal:
  https://www.fonehouse.co.uk/basket?type=simonly&productId=119&tariffId=1790&giftId=109&dealTypeId=2
  It gives £192 cashback on the £30/month Vodafone Unlimited Max service (as in max speed available).

  My circumstances are that I am in a rural location with an 8Mb/s FTTC connection. But I have 4 holiday cottages on site, so this doesn’t go very far.
  I have just (this minute) purchased a Huawei B525 and now I need a provider for the SIM. Unfortunately, I don’t get a good connection to Three BUT my Voda 4G connection is pretty good giving >40Mb/s

  So, my questions (to Ken or anyone else with relevant experience) are:
  a) Will a regular SIM (as opposed to data only) work OK? Having spent a fair amount of time on this site, the answer appears to be ‘yes’, but I just wanted to make sure.
  b) Does the cashback deal (above) sound reasonable? Not asking for any guarantees of course, just an opinion.

  Once the router is set up with a SIM, I will use homeplugs (internet over mains power cables) to distribute the signal between the cottages.

  If this setup works, it will save me from having multiple rubbish landlines which are both slow and expensive. Specifically, one £30/month SIM giving 40Mb/s compared with two £27/month landlines giving 8Mb/s each.

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    Ken replied:

    August 15, 2019 at 3:54 pm

    Hi Simon,
    Thank you so much for your kind feedback, and so sorry for the massive delay in getting back to you!
    a) Yes, a regular SIM card will work just fine in your Huawei B525 router. It used to be the case last year that you could only use these SIM card in a smartphone, but Ofcom put an end to that with their ruling on net neutrality (specifically, making sure that “restrictions on the devices in which a SIM can be used” were no longer imposed). You should now, therefore, be able to use any SIM card in any device.
    b) The deal sounds reasonable to me (though I think it has probably expired since you posted your original question). I haven’t had much first-hand experience with Fonehouse, but assuming it works, this is a pretty decent discount in my opinion!
    Good luck with setting it all up!
    Ken

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