EE - Any good?

[Dave *]

Three is probably best if frequently travelling abroad. I've spent 3+ weeks in France, Spain and Switzerland in October and my bill was the same as normal. I must have used like 10GB data and a few hours of calls.

I keep a Three PAYG simcard for Feel at Home countries, it doesn't have to be a contract to use it. Having said that, Three are starting to mess about with Feel at Home, I've noticed it in 3 separate countries and the press is starting to report on it as well.

The problem is Three is throttling data, cutting actual speeds to as little as 0.1 or 0.2 megabits when using it for many things. We’re talking 2G-like speeds here, which is often too slow for some services to work at all.

It’s weird that Three allows speed tests to run at ‘full throttle’, unless it’s to trick people into thinking everything is fine?

Of late a lot of people are starting to notice all is not well when using their phone for more than using social media. While the ratio of people moaning about problems is far smaller than those saying how great it is, Three must be fully aware that many customers aren’t happy and are voicing their concerns on Twitter, Facebook, and forums.

http://jmcomms.com/2015/11/02/sort-it-out-three-using-data-abroad-feels-nothing-like-at-home/

 

[dejongj]

I can't help but wonder how good ee will remain for ordinary consumers when the Airwave to EE transition for emergency services is complete. I can't help but think that blue light services will get significant network priority just when you need your network most.

 

[boliston]

I keep a Three PAYG simcard for Feel at Home countries, it doesn't have to be a contract to use it. Having said that, Three are starting to mess about with Feel at Home, I've noticed it in 3 separate countries and the press is starting to report on it as well.
http://jmcomms.com/2015/11/02/sort-it-out-three-using-data-abroad-feels-nothing-like-at-home/

I notice that article seems to imply that voda offers a better roaming experience but voda only gives you 100mb for a £5 daily fee "roam & play" - what happens once you run out - can you buy another pass or are you dumped onto an extortionate rate per mb?
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/explore/costs/travelling-abroad/vodafone-eurotraveller-on-pay-as-you-go/

 

[Dave *]

I notice that article seems to imply that voda offers a better roaming experience but voda only gives you 100mb for a £5 daily fee "roam & play" - what happens once you run out - can you buy another pass or are you dumped onto an extortionate rate per mb?
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/explore/costs/travelling-abroad/vodafone-eurotraveller-on-pay-as-you-go/

I'm not sure, I wouldn't touch Vodafone with your barge pole . Their customer service is that bad that it would probably be better not to have any at all.

I think the article is referring to the quality of the service offered rather than the quantity. Having a usable 100mb is surely better than having 100GB that it's almost impossible to use, other than for email and basic browsing.

Edit
Having checked your link it seems to be £3 a day for retaining your uk talk/text allowances plus 100mb data?

 

[neil_g]

In Norway the local network that our Three SIMs hooked onto wasn't amazingly fast, but then we were in between a load of mountains