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The One Plan on Three is £15 a month which includes tethering

yep. And even on the £15 PAYG 600min+3000texts+AYCE data package, which prohibits tethering, you'll get it for free... I've been using it for watching a full season of House of cards by tethering my iPad 4 to my 3GS. Pretty cool.
 
Wow. It's about time you guys got LTE. :p

I'm guessing the 'you guys' is the UK, correct? If so, we've had it for a while. the 'EE' network offer it, however they are crazily expensive and pretty crap for the price. Three is considered one of the, if not the best 3G provider in the UK. I get a solid 20mbps all over my city with them - no other network has that.

It's also pretty big that they aren't charging extra - EE charges a massive premium over 3G providers.

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Blimey they have change it then...the One plan was £25pm when I joined them and was the only way to get unlimited and tethering at the time.

You can also get unlimited tethered data for £10 /mo most of the time - ask in store. Before my iPhone 5 I was on a month-to-month contract with three paying £12/mo for unlimited data (tethered), 1000 minutes, 2500 texts.

Cant really beat three on price and performance. Their customer service used to be terrible, but these days they are decent enough.
 
You won't get tethering for £15 per month unless they've changed their policy.

Last time I checked with 3 it was £18/mth for the One Plan on a one month rolling contract with unlimited data and tethering.

Currently I pay £15/mth for Sky broadband and it's just rubbish. If I try to download too much content from iTunes it just grinds to a halt as they throttle the speed down to as low as 2Mbps. It never gets above 7Mbps even though Sky advertise it as 16Mbps.
 
Seems like there wont be much difference between 3's 3G and 4G service, I've got the all-you-can-eat package and I'm so much happier with their 3G speeds over O2's.
 
I currently get between 15Mbps - 22Mbps (depending on location) on their 3G. Can't wait to see what their 4G speeds will be like. Although a tad worried about the things I keep seeing stating that iPhone 5 won't be supported - hoping that's an error.
 
I currently get between 15Mbps - 22Mbps (depending on location) on their 3G. Can't wait to see what their 4G speeds will be like. Although a tad worried about the things I keep seeing stating that iPhone 5 won't be supported - hoping that's an error.

Out of interest where are you?

I'm in Wimbledon and I only get between 3 and 7mbs :(
 
Wow!!!

Just tried to tether my phone to my ipad via Bluetooth and the ipad gets a much faster speed than my phone!!!


Anyone have any thoughts on whats wrong and how I can fix it?!?! I'm sure three will say its a problem with the phone and apple will say its a problem with three :confused:
 
In and around Newcastle Upon Tyne. At work I get a nice steady 20Mbps. Lovely stuff.

You get 20Mbps on 3 in Newcastle? Blimey last time I tried it with one of their dongles a few years ago I got 2Mbps. Didn't realise their 3G was so much faster now. Don't think I'll wait for the 4G version, 20Mbps is 3x my current Sky fixed line broadband speed.
 
The iPhone 5 was a blessing in disguise for me. Before that I was with O2, and the mess they made of the nano sim forced me to look elsewhere.

I reluctantly walked into a 3 store and haven't looked back since.

I'm on the outskirts of Newcastle and get a decent 15-18Mbps. Checked my data usage yesterday and was stunned at 30Gb in just under 12 months!

Like someone said earlier, over the past few years they have really turned it around.
 
Another bonus with Three that I only found out about a couple of days ago is that if you're in one of 7 countries that also have a Three network (Republic of Ireland, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark) then you still get to use your call/data allowance as if you were still in the UK - effectively doing away with roaming charges in these countries. :D
 
Another bonus with Three that I only found out about a couple of days ago is that if you're in one of 7 countries that also have a Three network (Republic of Ireland, Australia, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, Sweden and Denmark) then you still get to use your call/data allowance as if you were still in the UK - effectively doing away with roaming charges in these countries. :D

You're 90% right there - if you need to call a number local to the country you are in, or connect to the signal of another provider, then you still get bitten with roaming charges. But yeah, it's another reason why my upcoming upgrade will be the first time in almost a decade when I don't change my provider.
 
NIce that companies like Vodafone are investing in 4G. Lovely for those in major cities. Maybe they should sort out the rest of their network though. I can only just get Edge, if I'm lucky, in most place, and usually GPRS.

Fed up of paying high carrier prices to subsidise peoples fast connections in big cities. It's about time people paid a price representative of what kind of connection they can get in their area. Then maybe these companies would get off their arses and provide a decent service.
 
NIce that companies like Vodafone are investing in 4G. Lovely for those in major cities. Maybe they should sort out the rest of their network though. I can only just get Edge, if I'm lucky, in most place, and usually GPRS.

Fed up of paying high carrier prices to subsidise peoples fast connections in big cities. It's about time people paid a price representative of what kind of connection they can get in their area. Then maybe these companies would get off their arses and provide a decent service.

This - I don't really care if London or Birmingham gets 4G since 3G HSPA+ speeds there are already really fast - the thing that bothers me is barely getting Edge if I'm anywhere that isn't a city.
 
Three have been wonderful. I've had them on Pay as You Go over the past nearly 2 years with my iPhone 4s. Each month I top up £15 a month and get unlimited data, 3000 texts and 300 minutes. That's unprecedented with other networks. Plus, they say you don't get tethering on PAYG, but somehow I've always been able to use it, for free!
 
I'm planning to replace my Sky home broadband with this from 3 once we get 4G in my home town mainly because Sky broadband is so effing slow. Might as well save myself £15/mth and get a faster speed by simply tethering their unlimited data plan through my iPhone to my Mac. Can't wait. :D

"slow" eek.. :( Don't say that, I'm getting sky broadband installed on Friday.

I'm currently doing what you plan to do. I'm with Three on the OnePlan and have been using it to tether my mac and idevices. Its been great for best part of a year, but in the last 2-3 months the sudden lack of signal at home has ruined the experience for me.:mad: Three still can't get to the bottom of it, hence why my hand was forced to finally get home broadband:mad:

Reason I haven't given up on Three yet is because the unlimited tethering is really useful when; lets say I happen to be somewhere with no free wifi using my wifi only iPad plus no other uk network offers anything comparable -yet.

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Last time I checked with 3 it was £18/mth for the One Plan on a one month rolling contract with unlimited data and tethering.


£18 a month:confused:

I think I'll be giving Three a call in the morning. I think I'm paying £25 for rolling monthly.
 
I already get 20Mb/s with Three over 3G in London (which is where I live) so I think these estimations of 4G being 16Mb/s are very conservative of them.

But that is Three for you, conservatively brilliant.
 
Wow. It's about time you guys got LTE. :p
Waiting for spectrum to become available, and also to roll LTE-A over LTE in time. The operators were not going to install hardware until LTE-A was ready. Hopefully when the extra spectrum is auctioned off LTE-A can be switched on at a flick of a switch.

The only loser here are EE, most of their LTE Siemens transmitters are not able to do LTE-A.
 
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