Three UK Launches New “Advanced” 100GB Data 4G Mobile Plan
Mobile operator Three UK has quietly introduced a new “Advanced” plan with a 100GB data cap, as well as “all-you-can-eat” minutes and calls, which seems designed to sit in-between their current 30GB capped tariff and the top “all-you-can-eat” data tier. But there’s a catch.. of course.
The 100GB (GigaByte) SIM Only plan costs either £25 per month for a 12 month contract or £29 on a 1 month term, which makes it pretty good value. As usual customers will also benefit from the operator’s mobile roaming at no extra cost (Feel At Home) and their new Go Binge service (i.e. unlimited video streaming via Netflix, TVPlayer etc.).
Overall the new plan is £4 per month cheaper than Three UK’s top “all-you-can-eat” data/calls/texts package, although there’s a catch. Until now all of Three UK’s data capped “Advanced” plans have imposed a restriction on Tethering that matches the data cap of the package itself (except on their “all-you-can-eat” data tier where a 30GB cap applies).
Sadly the 100GB plan breaks the above tradition by adopting the same 30GB cap as their top “all-you-can-eat” data/calls/texts plan, which perhaps isn’t a surprise because otherwise it might be more attractive to those already on their top tier (a high Tethering cap is often a lot more desirable than “all-you-can-eat” data via a Smartphone).
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please say average, not mean. it confuses me into thinking of “median”. many guys here are way off from up-to-date with the nowadays technology and internet, internet speeds, data rates, and so on. I’ll talk about flat rate here and what flat rate means (or should mean rather, but will talk about this later), is when you have for example 30Mbps download you should have around 9855 GB of available data limit. yes… there IS a limit which many of you didn’t know. how this limit should be calculated is: if you have a given internet connection speed, you should be able to download as much data as you would by downloading 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month at full speed. so, the math should be: given a random internet connection speed (in my case 30Mbps) times how many seconds there are in a month and the resulting number should be converted from Megabits to GigaBytes. You’ll get the resulting number and this number should be the GIGABYTE limit of your ISP data plan. (i’m still disappointed we measure the INTERNET data transfer rate in Megabits per second instead of MegaBytes per second… silly world.)
so, I said “what flat rate SHOULD mean” and that’s because many times ISP’s will advertise “FLAT” but there’s actually a limit which they set lower than it should be. for example, if your connection speed is 100Mbps with a FLAT rate, you should have 32.871825 TB (TeraBytes) at disposal. that’s a lot for someone who doesn’t use the internet as it should be used nowadays. The ISP will advertise the word “FLAT” but in reality they set it to let’s say 5GB or 10GB or 100GB… they either won’t tell you the actual limit or will state in very very small letters below the “FLAT rate” advertisement “100Mbps speed up to 5GB/10GB/100GB”. As I said that’s very often due to marketing, same as in 4k vs UHD which is NOT the same. Don’t let them fool you and do your research before making any deals or signing any contract.
I use about 150 gig a month through a fiber fixed line connection .
Wish there was more choice on uncapped 4G
I use relish in London last three years wire free 4G connection works well on sip and voip and video streaming
They should roll out 4G , better up speeds than fiber on my connection