EE Nano Sim £45 for 15Gb per month for 10 months!!

[Richard10002]

Seemed too good to be true but, for £45 total, thought it worth the risk, so bought one of these yesterday and it arrived today:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150GB-4G-...556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f46ea5b44

If it's for real, it's £4.50 per month for 15Gb per month until December!!

Slotted it into a sim adapter and put it in my new Huawei e5776, and its working fine. I've used about a Gb so far, but no way of knowing whether the 15Gb per month, for 10 months is for real yet.

Tried to log into canal world, but it refused as it found adult content... I guess if you remove the c from canal ???

To overcome this, EE get you to pay them £2 on a credit card, and refund it. This satisfies them you are over 18, and that canalworld wont corrupt you - however, this facility wasnt available last night, nor today. I also have not been able to get into "my account" at EE, so the sim might be iffy.

I cant find any reference to this sim, or the deal, on the EE web site, and I'm wondering if anyone knows any more about it?

I'm using the EE free 100Gb per month sim right now. This has worked great for two months, but expires on Saturday. Hopefully, this new sim will replace it, and enable me to dump Three and their One Plan that is no longer what it used to be.

 

[SteveSarabande]

That is a great deal, if it works. I am a bit suspicious of something that sounds to good to be true.

 

[ffiill]

Who is EE?
Noted they were sponsoring the BAFTA s this year but who or what are they?

 

[LadyInBed]

I assume that is UK only?

 

[VicS]

Who is EE?
Noted they were sponsoring the BAFTA s this year but who or what are they?

"EE, formerly Everything Everywhere, is a British mobile network operator and internet service provider. The company was formed in 2010 as a 50:50 joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and Orange S.A. (formerly France Télécom) through the merger of their respective T-Mobile and Orange businesses in the UK.[4][5] Though currently it is in the process of being purchased by BT. It is the largest mobile network operator in the UK, with around 28 million customers"

 

[KAL]

"EE, formerly Everything Everywhere, is a British mobile network operator and internet service provider. The company was formed in 2010 as a 50:50 joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and Orange S.A. (formerly France Télécom) through the merger of their respective T-Mobile and Orange businesses in the UK.[4][5] Though currently it is in the process of being purchased by BT. It is the largest mobile network operator in the UK, with around 28 million customers"

...and I can vouch for their coverage and data speed, which is vastly better than O2 or Vodafone, having just migrated to them. Best of all, data speeds on our mid-river mooring are almost as good as broadband at home, whereas I could barely get a signal with the others.

 

[KevB]

...and I can vouch for their coverage and data speed, which is vastly better than O2 or Vodafone, having just migrated to them. Best of all, data speeds on our mid-river mooring are almost as good as broadband at home, whereas I could barely get a signal with the others.

Really? I went the other way. Having been with T-Mobile since their early days of One2One I recently changed to Vodafone because of constantly bad coverage especially when at work in central London!! I have found Vodafone 4g coverage far superior. My wife who is still on T-mobile often uses my phone for web browsing cause her T-mobile doesn't want to play ball.

 

[ghostlymoron]

All mobile suppliers make their pricing as confusing as possible in my experience and are constantly finding new ways of tripping you up. I recently had a new phone which uses a micro sim so I had to get a new one from O2, my supplier. I have ended up on a different tariff which is not as good as the old one. I get 1000 free calls and texts each time I Topup but only to O2 subscribers whereas before, I got 100 free calls and texts to any number. Most of my contacts are on other networks so they're not much use. Aaaaaarghhh.

 

[Danbury]

Really? I went the other way. Having been with T-Mobile since their early days of One2One I recently changed to Vodafone because of constantly bad coverage especially when at work in central London!! I have found Vodafone 4g coverage far superior. My wife who is still on T-mobile often uses my phone for web browsing cause her T-mobile doesn't want to play ball.

It almost certainly has nothing to do with the network operator... far more likely to be due to how far you are from a cell site... and that's just the 'luck of the draw'. Many cell sites host more than one operators equipment, so even then it's not so clear. If you have poor signal in central London, I'd suggest it's the construction or orientation of the building itself... you might find that moving 1 metre will drastically change things.

Also, remember that the O2/Vodafone frequencies travel further than EE... so EE need more sites to provide the same coverage.

Just my twopenneth...

 

[dylanwinter]

I have been paying £15 a month for three gigs

the deal from the OP above seems a good one



so I bought one - an ebay click


and am currently an hour into trying to get the old one cancelled

the system failed to recognise me or my email or my phone number

so I had to go the human route

sitting here with the phone on speaker while it bleats **** music at me

aaaaagh!

 

[LadyInBed]

I recently had a new phone which uses a micro sim so I had to get a new one from O2, my supplier.

you should have taken a stanly knife to your mini sim and cut it down.
Lots of pics on the net with dimensions and 'how to'.

 

[Richard10002]

Really? I went the other way. Having been with T-Mobile since their early days of One2One I recently changed to Vodafone because of constantly bad coverage especially when at work in central London!! I have found Vodafone 4g coverage far superior. My wife who is still on T-mobile often uses my phone for web browsing cause her T-mobile doesn't want to play ball.

In Heckington, Lincolnshire, the only network that works is Vodafone... so if you live in Heckington, you would see Vodafone as the best network.

Individually, it can be location that matters. Overall, one will be better than the others.

 

[Richard10002]

I have been paying £15 a month for three gigs

the deal from the OP above seems a good one



so I bought one - an ebay click


and am currently an hour into trying to get the old one cancelled

the system failed to recognise me or my email or my phone number

so I had to go the human route

sitting here with the phone on speaker while it bleats **** music at me

aaaaagh!

Not sure I would be dumping something that works for something that we are not yet sure about? Mine wont let me connect to quite a few sites that it seems to think have adult content, (but which do not... canalworld, some pages at john Lewis, and others), so I'm not yet convinced that its the answer...)

 

[[3889]]

Hopefully, this new sim will replace it, and enable me to dump Three and their One Plan that is no longer what it used to be.

Not as cheap as £4.50 / month but I find Three pretty good, to the extent that I've cancelled my fixed line broadband and use their unlimited data, plus 200 voice and unlimited texts for £15 / month. It also has the advantage of 'free' roaming in France & Spain.
There is supposedly a 4Gb tethering limit on this plan but it is not applied in the UK; I regularly tether using 10Gb+ per month without taking any steps to disguise this. You can't tether at all when abroad though.

 

[paul-essex]

It almost certainly has nothing to do with the network operator... far more likely to be due to how far you are from a cell site... and that's just the 'luck of the draw'. Many cell sites host more than one operators equipment, so even then it's not so clear. If you have poor signal in central London, I'd suggest it's the construction or orientation of the building itself... you might find that moving 1 metre will drastically change things.

Also, remember that the O2/Vodafone frequencies travel further than EE... so EE need more sites to provide the same coverage.

Just my twopenneth...

so it dose depend on the operator then

 

[ghostlymoron]

Didn't know you could do that. Too late now I'm afraid.

you should have taken a stanly knife to your mini sim and cut it down.
Lots of pics on the net with dimensions and 'how to'.

 

[sailorman]

I have been paying £15 a month for three gigs

the deal from the OP above seems a good one



so I bought one - an ebay click


and am currently an hour into trying to get the old one cancelled

the system failed to recognise me or my email or my phone number

so I had to go the human route

sitting here with the phone on speaker while it bleats **** music at me

aaaaagh!

"Your Kaaal is important to us "

 

[Richard10002]

Called into an EE shop today to get the adult lock taken off, and they couldn't do it. Despite several phone calls from the shop to wherever, they couldn't identify the sim as an EE sim, (or T Mobile, or Orange).

So something isn't right with it, but I'm using it now, and my only issue is that I can't get on canalworld.net or some John Lewis pages, and I'm sure there will be others.

The guy who supplied it suggested a free proxy server, but the ones I found were really slow.

I think I'll be paying EE £20 a month for 15Gb, and using this as a backup.

 

[Richard10002]

Not as cheap as £4.50 / month but I find Three pretty good, to the extent that I've cancelled my fixed line broadband and use their unlimited data, plus 200 voice and unlimited texts for £15 / month. It also has the advantage of 'free' roaming in France & Spain.
There is supposedly a 4Gb tethering limit on this plan but it is not applied in the UK; I regularly tether using 10Gb+ per month without taking any steps to disguise this. You can't tether at all when abroad though.

I still have unlimited tethering on my One Plan, but the word is that they will be contacting me to end it sooner or later, so I'm preempting things.

If you haven't been contacted by Three to change your contract, you will still have unlimited tethering.

 

[charles_reed]

All mobile suppliers make their pricing as confusing as possible in my experience and are constantly finding new ways of tripping you up. I recently had a new phone which uses a micro sim so I had to get a new one from O2, my supplier. I have ended up on a different tariff which is not as good as the old one. I get 1000 free calls and texts each time I Topup but only to O2 subscribers whereas before, I got 100 free calls and texts to any number. Most of my contacts are on other networks so they're not much use. Aaaaaarghhh.

Yes - nearly as bad as banks.
Outwitting either party is something to keep the grey cells moving.
Incidentally you can cut your standard SIM down to micro-size - I haven't tried it but am assured it's possible.