3G Data Roaming with three?

nigelmercier

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There was a thread somewhere about the new three packages, saying they are no good (something about a daughter?). I can't find it as the forum search won't let me search for "three", pathetic!

Anyway, I think they look OK. I have just ordered a free SIM to use in Tenerife (Spain is a Feel At Home destination)

I plan to buy a "Pay As You Go - All in One 20", this should give me "all-you-can-eat data for just £20" for one month.

Have I missed something?

My device is a Huawei E220.
 
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Re: 3G Roaming with three?

OR4751 said:
In practice, the 3 'all you can eat data' is capped at 12GB/month when abroad.
There's also a maximum of 2 months abroad per year/365 days.
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Actually that isn't a problem, I just need a bit more than the 2GB I get from MasMovil.
I don't see how the 2 month maximum would work, just get another free SIM!
 
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The Three free roaming certainly saved us a fortune last year in France - had both phone and iPad on Three. Wife was banned from using her over priced Vodaphone handset !

Got stung though in the Chnnel Islands - where they insisted that these were neither UK nor France, and advised that they were charged at the "EU" rate which was expensive.

Long debate with them as the Bailiewick of Guernsey can be considered part of the wider UK (Crown protectorate and part of the U.K. for some things, including defence), or independent state (if ignore the other legal links) - but one thing it is not is EU.
But other than that still think Three a great deal if in right countries
 
nigelmercier said:
There was a thread somewhere about the new three packages, saying they are no good (something about a daughter?). I can't find it as the forum search won't let me search for "three", pathetic!

Anyway, I think they look OK. I have just ordered a free SIM to use in Tenerife (Spain is a Feel At Home destination)

I plan to buy a "Pay As You Go - All in One 20", this should give me "all-you-can-eat data for just £20" for one month.

Have I missed something?

My device is a Huawei E220.
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Your device is a dongle or a mifi of some kind, whereas the sim "seems" to be for a phone with data facilities, rather than a data device.

I have a Three PAYG sim, and they wont allow it to connect if I put in my Huawei Mifi, so worth double checking whther it will work in your device.
 
Richard10002 said:
Your device is a dongle or a mifi of some kind, whereas the sim "seems" to be for a phone with data facilities, rather than a data device.
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Yes, I think you'll fall foul of this. I had a similar problem. But try it - the restriction works by checking the IMEI and the E220 is quite old so may not be on their database. You could do what I do - use an old mobile phone and tether with bluetooth or cable - they don't detect that.
 
You need a data sim contract rather than a phone sim. I have one in my ipad, they don't do unlimited on data. It works fine as long as you are not abroad for more than one month. They can cut you off if you stay abroad too long.

I went for the one month contract just in case. I spent 10 weeks abroad last summer, they never cut me off. I was in a few different feel at home destinations.
 
DaveRo said:
Yes, I think you'll fall foul of this. I had a similar problem. But try it - the restriction works by checking the IMEI and the E220 is quite old so may not be on their database. You could do what I do - use an old mobile phone and tether with bluetooth or cable - they don't detect that.
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Does tethering work in feel at home destinations? It is supposed to be banned.
http://www.three.co.uk/terms-conditions/feel-at-home
Customers cannot use their smartphone as a modem to connect other devices such as laptops and tablets - also known as “tethering”, in the destinations listed above
 
Three have just reduced their £20 ADD ON from all you can eat to 12Gb. Not that that affects use abroad which is limited to 12Gb anyway. And the sim will only work in a phone.
My experience of the network is that tethering, though forbidden, works in the UK on both Android and Windows without any modifications, but does not work abroad at all.
Download streams abroad are also choked - I cannot stream even radio when on 4g though I stream HD video in the UK.
Nevertheless, I find 3 the best offering in Feel at Home countries. Sim replacement is a solution if you don't mind losing your number.
 
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SteveSarabande said:
Does tethering work in feel at home destinations? It is supposed to be banned.
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It probably won't work in a modern smartphone - I think that iOS and Android both cooperate with the operator to prevent it. But it works with a Nokia running Symbian and my guess it it would work with most old phones. I can also run joikuspot on such a phone. (Useful in Turkey where the local SIM is tied to the EMEI.)
Customers cannot use their [highlight]smartphone[/highlight] as a modem...
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What it says;)

It's also possible to change the EMEI of the E220. This may or may not be illegal in the EU - it's not a phone. (I have one - but I've not tried it.)

Edit: Yes - it's illegal to change the EMEI: ref.
 
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DaveRo said:
It probably won't work in a modern smartphone - I think that iOS and Android both cooperate with the operator to prevent it. But it works with a Nokia running Symbian and my guess it it would work with most old phones. I can also run joikuspot on such a phone. (Useful in Turkey where the local SIM is tied to the EMEI.)
What it says;)

It's also possible to change the EMEI of the E220. This may or may not be illegal in the EU - it's not a phone. (I have one - but I've not tried it.)

Edit: Yes - it's illegal to change the EMEI: ref.
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You are correct but why is it illegal, what harm does it do to change the emei, what does the emei do?
 
I tried my Three PAYG SIM in the E220:
"Your SIM will only work in your phone.
Reference SIM001

Taking your SIM card out of your mobile phone and putting it into a different device - like a dongle or tablet - isn't what our phone plans or Add-ons were designed for. You need to put your SIM back into your phone in order to continue using it."

Same as I get with the Nexus 7 (in which it used to work).
 
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