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The 3 network has come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years compared to crappy vodafone which has very limited 3G coverage except around major towns and cities .
I have used 3 successfully in remote places like Durness , Ullapool , up the west coast of Scotland in many locations and in Royal Deeside at Ballater and Banchory which up until two years ago had no coverage .
Good old Vodafone does nothing when it come to upgrading there 2G coverage even on the main arterial route into Scotland there is NO Vodafone 3G once you pass Gretna until you reach Moffat and then it disappears again until your near Motherwell .
Where as 3 has coverage all the way .
As I type this I'm currently 8 miles outside Abergavenny on a CL in the Black Mountains using a Mi-Fi with 3 and the signal is 90-100% and fast enough to Skype .
Vodafone here is weak at 30-40% but only 2G signal
The 3 network has come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years compared to crappy vodafone which has very limited 3G coverage except around major towns and cities .
I have used 3 successfully in remote places like Durness , Ullapool , up the west coast of Scotland in many locations and in Royal Deeside at Ballater and Banchory which up until two years ago had no coverage .
Good old Vodafone does nothing when it come to upgrading there 2G coverage even on the main arterial route into Scotland there is NO Vodafone 3G once you pass Gretna until you reach Moffat and then it disappears again until your near Motherwell .
Where as 3 has coverage all the way .
As I type this I'm currently 8 miles outside Abergavenny on a CL in the Black Mountains using a Mi-Fi with 3 and the signal is 90-100% and fast enough to Skype .
Vodafone here is weak at 30-40% but only 2G signal
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Think you will like the Wildfire, been looking at them for a mate. I have a Desire which for me is a big improvement over the phone it replaced,,, an iphone
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I've historically been wary of Three, but will consider them at renewal time.
I've got a Three mifi for in the van, and it's a million times better than Vodafone (that's Vodafone 3G incidentally, not ph)...their 3G is pretty poor outside major towns and although you get connectivity, it's cr*ppy GPRS.
On the assumption that wherever I get data coverage on the mifi I'll get voice coverage, Three should be pretty good. Even where they've not got network, it'll roam onto T-Mob. I believe there has been some fuss recently about their disabling national roaming where Three coverage is there but not very good (previously would have roamed to higher speed T-Mobile network), but that's noise really.
Mauramac, what deal have you been offerend on a Wildfire S? Buymobilephones will do you a deal for 300 mins, 5000 texts and 500Mbytes broadband for £15. If you don't trust Three, they'll do T-Mobile samething but 300 texts, for £15.32 (or effectively £14.07 after autocashback)...that has the advantage of roaming onto Orange.
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Think you will like the Wildfire, been looking at them for a mate. I have a Desire which for me is a big improvement over the phone it replaced,,, an iphone
Ooh that is so spooky - I upgraded my old Nokia for an Apple iphone 3GS with o2 and hated it. Sent it back under the 14 day cooling off period and asked o2 for the HTC Wildfire S as a replacement. They couldn't even get close to the offer with Three so I told them to cancel my contract (I cant even work out how long we have been with o2 it goes back so far) but then I started panicking when I could only get through to the Indian call centre that Three seem to use and wondered if I had made a mistake. At least with o2 you always get through to a UK person. So then I thought I had better check out the coverage and if that came up bad then I would go back to o2 and suffer the poor deal. However, all the comments have been positive so maybe I can put up with getting the Indian call centre from time to time - I mean they not all bad. I just dont use them on principle if I can avoid them.
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Paul
Thanks for your help, I have been offered a few choices ranging from £12 per month up to £18.75 pm over 24 months. 1st one was 500 mins, 5000 texts, 1GB data, Free PAYG SIM for a friend, and £30 credit for ordering over the phone - That worked out £18.75 when you took the £30 credit off. Also 500 mins, 500 texts, Inclusive Data, skype to skype calls, free voice mail for £15 pm.
I haven't used minutes much in the past - mainly texts but would like 1GB data. I would be happy to get away with £15 - £18 pm. I was paying £18.50 on o2 for a lot less (as is the OH with his iphone).
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Incidentally, my Three Mobile 3G dongle contract is £7.50 a month for 3Gb data with a free MiFi dongle and my sim only deal for the phone is £10 a month for 1Gb data and 300 minutes of calls.
I doubt that you'll get a better price from any other mobile network. Although it's unlikely the dongle deal is still available at that price as it was set up three years ago and the free MiFi upgrade was offered last year as an inducement to sign up for a further 18 months.
No worries Mauramac. I used buymobilephones for my wife's contract, and they were fine with the cashback. Personally, I avoid ones where you need to do anything, and only consider autocashbacks. Safest is also to treat that as a bonus, and compare prices based on the headline. As ever, be sure to cancel automatic insurance policies straight away...this is the case wherever you purchase from, because ultimately it's where the low cost outfits make their money.
I'm similar usage profile to you myself. Wasn't quite happy with only 100 minutes, but anything above that's fine. As for texts, I rarely get into double figures so 5000 a month is a bit laughable. Solely price for me, then.
I'm not due to replace mine for a couple of months, but am at present torn between the Wildfire S and the Desire S....£5 more for the latter doesn't sound so bad, but that's £120 more across the contract period. Then there's a new Sony Xperia that seems to ace the Wildfire....all so complicated...
Roly, I could take or leave your SIM only deal, but that mifi package you've got is incredible. I pay £9.50 for 1G and consider(ed) that a good deal! That said, I've only bust the 1G limit once so it's questionnable how much value the 3GB adds. For smartphones (where you're largely at home so hooked onto your home broadband/wifi), I do struggle to see how anyone exceeds 500M - unless they're too lazy to configure the wifi. Time will come (industry insider knowledge) that the phone companies will autoconfigure the handsets to leech off home broadband - google "wifi offload".
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