New Three [business] Sim-Only: 3,000 mins, 3,000 texts and 15Gb data: €20

JTMan

A brand new offer from Three for €20.00 per month:
3,000 any network any time minutes ('Unlimited'),
3,000 any network texts ('Unlimited'),
15 GB data ('all you can eat').
Sim-only with 12 month contract.

Launches in the next few days.

This offer knocks-the-socks off the Tesco and eMobile sim-only unlimited offers or be it with a 12 month contract.

Source: Sunday Business Post.

homingbird

If it is contract it is bill pay so you will pay more!!!!!

MagicMarker

homingbird wrote: »

If it is contract it is bill pay so you will pay more!!!!!

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homingbird

Three have a funny way of ripping off people ask my friend he got badly burned on bill pay with them. Read the small print.

MagicMarker

Oh I see, well if your friend says so...

Davexirl

I'm on Tesco €35 unlimited plan and can't fault them. My bills do be around €40 a month. Be interesting to see this new deal from 3.

groom

Fungus wrote: »

A brand new offer from Three for €20.00 per month:
3,000 any network any time minutes ('Unlimited')

Are land lines included?

Solair

Fungus wrote: »

A brand new offer from Three for €20.00 per month:
3,000 any network any time minutes ('Unlimited'),
3,000 any network texts ('Unlimited'),
15 GB data ('all you can eat').
Sim-only with 12 month contract.

Launches in the next few days.

This offer knocks-the-socks off the Tesco and eMobile sim-only unlimited offers or be it with a 12 month contract.

Source: Sunday Business Post.

It's good but the tesco offer has vastly more minutes and texts than that (10,000/month), unlimited calls to tesco mobile & very very cheap international calls (1c per min to many places) and there's no minimum term contract. There's even visual voicemail (Hullomail).

The 3 offer is good, but far from sock knocking.

I'd also rate Tesco's customer care as way better than 3. They've very competent locally-based call centres.

balfe1990

Solair wrote: »

It's good but the tesco offer has vastly more minutes and texts than that (10,000/month), unlimited calls to tesco mobile & very very cheap international calls (1c per min to many places) and there's no minimum term contract. There's even visual voicemail (Hullomail).

Do you really need 10,000 minutes a month? That's like 5 hours a day of talk-time...

JTMan

balfe1990 wrote: »

Do you really need 10,000 minutes a month? That's like 5 hours a day of talk-time...

Agreed, the difference between 3,000 minutes and 10,000 minutes is in effect irrelevant as very very few people go above 3,000 minutes.

3,000 minutes, for the majority of people, equals unlimited minutes.

Very few people are better off paying over 150 EUR more per year to Tesco for 10,000 minutes, when 3,000 would more than meet their needs.

Nor is it worth a 150 EUR+ premium for bloody visual voicemail.

padd b1975

balfe1990 wrote: »

Do you really need 10,000 minutes a month? That's like 5 hours a day of talk-time...

Sounds like a bit of a headline grabber, can't see it applying to many customers.

Solair

padd b1975 wrote: »

Sounds like a bit of a headline grabber, can't see it applying to many customers.

Their international rates are worth it to me.

If I call Canada, UK landlines, France or Australia for example it's 1c / min

Their international rates mean I've been able to dump a VoIP subscription.

http://www.tescomobile.ie/international-rates.aspx

I mentioned HulloMail as Three have a history of charging for checking your messages. That adds up if you get a lot of voicemail.

JTMan

Fair enough, if you are a very very heavy caller abroad then it may be worth the 180 EUR per year premium to pay Tesco.

groom wrote: »

Are land lines included?

Probably. 3 include landlines in all their other minutes so I would think that landlines are included in this deal.

Soarer

Any idea of when this is starting?

As much as I hate 3's customer service, I'm gonna be all over this.
Meteor recently bumped me back up to €30pm from €15pm. After a phone call, they agreed to discount it to €20pm but no more...even though there are plenty of others getting back down to €15.

So they can shove their 200 minutes, 200 texts, and 1gb for €20.

Couple of questions about 3 though.
Do they allow tethering?
I know if you travel to the uk that you can use your minutes and data over there. Do they have something similar in Spain?

fisherking

Same as that with meteor
They can whistle for my 20e........

Soarer wrote: »

Any idea of when this is starting?

As much as I hate 3's customer service, I'm gonna be all over this.
Meteor recently bumped me back up to €30pm from €15pm. After a phone call, they agreed to discount it to €20pm but no more...even though there are plenty of others getting back down to €15.

So they can shove their 200 minutes, 200 texts, and 1gb for €20.

Couple of questions about 3 though.
Do they allow tethering?
I know if you travel to the uk that you can use your minutes and data over there. Do they have something similar in Spain?

JTMan

Soarer wrote: »

Any idea of when this is starting?

It appears to be sometime over the coming days.

Soarer wrote: »

Do they allow tethering?

Officially, no. Unofficially, you will probably get away with it.

Soarer wrote: »

I know if you travel to the uk that you can use your minutes and data over there. Do they have something similar in Spain?

No.

lavine7

Three Like home should allow you to use your bundle in the UK on 3UK network at no extra cost.

No Spain but there are other countries included. Italy, Denmark, Australia and a few more I can't think of.

Solair

Glad to see there's a proper price war kicking off though.

The MVNOs like eMobile and Tesco seem to have really thrown the cat amongst the pigeons. Even Vodafone is attempting to be price competitive with that "Red" plan.

km79

lavine7 wrote: »

Three Like home should allow you to use your bundle in the UK on 3UK network at no extra cost.

It does. It's a great feature.

Elessar

I too got shafted by Meteor and bumped up from 15 to 30 euro without warning.

I was with three before but changed over to get the 15 euro deal. Think I'll be switching back.

Skuxx

homingbird wrote: »

Three have a funny way of ripping off people ask my friend he got badly burned on bill pay with them. Read the small print.

Who's your friend??

MagicMarker

Elessar wrote: »

I too got shafted by Meteor and bumped up from 15 to 30 euro without warning.

This is nonsense, you signed up for the deal that only lasted 12 months. If you didn't know that when you signed up then that's your own fault.

In saying that, I've also been moved to the €30 tariff. I haven't rang them yet but if this deal from Three is true I may move regardless of whether or not Meteor give me back the discount.

Elessar

MagicMarker wrote: »

This is nonsense, you signed up for the deal that only lasted 12 months. If you didn't know that when you signed up then that's your own fault.

Wrong. Jump to conclusions much?

I was put on an extended 12 months of the 15 euro offer last november (I have it in writing in a PM from one of the reps on here). They moved me to 30 euro two months ago. I've PM'd the same rep and I've been ignored. They f*cking shafted me.

god's toy

I know technically you can't use hotspot/tethering with new contracts on three but I wonder if this will be enforced with this new deal?
...been on the sim only (32 odd euro I think) plan for years.

Dublinstiofán

I'm on €15 a month plan with meteor for 200 mins unlimited texts and 1GB data
Happy with that for the moment.

I wouldn't take a 12 month contract out with Three again if my life depended on it! They're service and customer care is ****e!

Oracle

This seems a good offer. It's competing with 48 Months as much as Tesco and eMobile. Looks like its not on the Three website yet: http://www.three.ie/

About the international calls and HulloMail. You could use a spare Tesco Mobile/Lycamobile sim to make cheap international calls. Also I thought you could install HulloMail on any smartphone?

P.S. Three are offering 1 month free for anyone who signs up and their referee. (30 Day Sim Only customers excluded)
Maybe the referring could be done on this thread via PM? Subject to mod approval of course: http://www.three.ie/deals/refer-a-friend.html

Can anyone explain to a simpleton like myself why you would choose this over Three's €20 pay as you go offer? Is it just the minutes? Personally I'd prefer to use the €20 credit for my minutes rather than enter a 12 month contract.

JTMan

Oracle wrote: »

Looks like its not on the Three website yet: http://www.three.ie/

It is not officially launched. It launches "over the coming days".

Deleted User wrote: »

Can anyone explain to a simpleton like myself why you would choose this over Three's €20 pay as you go offer? Is it just the minutes? Personally I'd prefer to use the €20 credit for my minutes rather than enter a 12 month contract.

Virtually unlimited weekday minutes which is not offered with the 3 prepay package. For some, the prepay package will still be the best choice.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Can anyone tell me what Three's signal is like in the Wicklow, Donabate and Maynooth areas? I'm currently on the similar emobile deal but this looks like a better deal for me. I just don't want to switch only to find out that the phone is unusable.

Here you go.

breathn

Oracle wrote: »

About the international calls and HulloMail. You could use a spare Tesco Mobile/Lycamobile sim to make cheap international calls. Also I thought you could install HulloMail on any smartphone?

Heeeey Oracle,
The cost of HulloMail is at the call divert. So Tesco Mobile have whitelisted the range of HulloMail voip numbers to be free calls provided you have a positive credit balance. The voip service plays your greeting and records the call and pushes the file to your smartphone.

Sadly with many providers the cost of voip diverts is very expensive and not included in minutes.

Very useful service but I don't know why tesco mobile and the likes don't just build it into their own offering rather than using a 3rd party.

The new 3 deal looks good except for the 12 month contract. I feel very nervous with them.

Anyone know if is a hard limit of 15GB per month with speed throttled overage like AYCE, or if they charge for overages?

XxMCRxBabyxX

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Here you go.

I don't trust those maps. They've lied to me before!

StaticNoise

The only thing that changes is that you get 3000 minutes, to use anytime, rather than 3000 minutes only at the weekend.
This is the only difference between that and prepay.

Oracle

breathn wrote: »

Heeeey Oracle,
The cost of HulloMail is at the call divert. So Tesco Mobile have whitelisted the range of HulloMail voip numbers to be free calls provided you have a positive credit balance. The voip service plays your greeting and records the call and pushes the file to your smartphone.....

Thanks for the explanation Breathn sounds like a very useful service. Maybe all the networks should have it.

StaticNoise wrote: »

The only thing that changes is that you get 3000 minutes, to use anytime, rather than 3000 minutes only at the weekend. This is the only difference between that and prepay.

.... true but thats a very important difference. Most people want to make calls anytime, not just at weekends. While you have €20 Prepay credit to spend on calls, €20 at 35c per minute, is less than 60 minutes of calls each month.

StaticNoise

Oh, I wasn't doubting it, only clarifying it. I was making a response to another post in the thread, but people were obviously doing the same, so it was bumped down the page upon submission.

Cushie Butterfield

Two things:

1) Anyone thinking of switching to Three should make it their business to get a prepay SIM & test it out thoroughly first to make sure that they can get coverage at home, at work/college & anywhere else where they regularly hang out/visit. If you travel a lot & need constant coverage especially for work be very careful. Twelve months is a long time for anyone who has problems in that regard.

2) Hullomail are no longer accepting new free subscriptions in Ireland.

Oracle

Thats a great idea Cushie, the Prepay Sims are free anyway.

Hogzy

Solair wrote: »

It's good but the tesco offer has vastly more minutes and texts than that (10,000/month), unlimited calls to tesco mobile & very very cheap international calls (1c per min to many places) and there's no minimum term contract. There's even visual voicemail (Hullomail).

The 3 offer is good, but far from sock knocking.

I'd also rate Tesco's customer care as way better than 3. They've very competent locally-based call centres.

Are you referring to the €35 plan from Tesco? Thats almost double the price of what the OP posted?

Kristopherus

breathn wrote: »

Heeeey Oracle,
The cost of HulloMail is at the call divert. So Tesco Mobile have whitelisted the range of HulloMail voip numbers to be free calls provided you have a positive credit balance. The voip service plays your greeting and records the call and pushes the file to your smartphone.

Sadly with many providers the cost of voip diverts is very expensive and not included in minutes.

Very useful service but I don't know why tesco mobile and the likes don't just build it into their own offering rather than using a 3rd party.

The new 3 deal looks good except for the 12 month contract. I feel very nervous with them.

Anyone know if is a hard limit of 15GB per month with speed throttled overage like AYCE, or if they charge for overages?

Hullomail works with Three. Only uses miniscule amounts of data. No cost at all.

goz83

Oracle wrote: »

Thats a great idea Cushie, the Prepay Sims are free anyway.

Afraid not. They make sure you top up first. Usually €10.

I would not trust a coverage map either.

Oracle

goz83 wrote: »

Afraid not. They make sure you top up first. Usually €10.

I would not trust a coverage map either.

Yeah I noticed that thanks. Probably better to buy €20 as the initial topup, then you've got the AYCE data, free weekend calls and texts straight away.

I didn't know they offered free WiFi nice extra: http://www.three.ie/services/apps.html

Solair

Also I thought you could install HulloMail on any smartphone?

You can but Tesco have an agreement with them and do not charge for calls diverted to HulloMail, other networks do.

Your calls are sent to an 076 VoIP number which is your mailbox. Some networks charge 076 outside your bundled minutes as a non geographic call (which is ridiculous in my opinion anyway)

But basically, if you use it with other networks you'll get gouged every time a call diverts to it, but it will work.

drunkmonkey

god's toy wrote: »

Source: Sunday Business Post.

Don't mean to ruin the party but it was in the business post because it's a business plan.

JTMan

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Don't mean to ruin the party but it was in the business post because it's a business plan.

Are you certain? If that is the case, the article is badly written.

It gives the implication that it is for BOTH business users and also personal users.

For example, read the first 4 paragraphs of the article.

For example ...
"The idea is to cater for people who are happy with their smartphone, but want to cut their monthly bills". "It is also to cater for the growing business practice of bring your own device".

Kensington

Fungus wrote: »

Are you certain? If that is the case, the article is badly written.

It gives the implication that it is for BOTH business users and also personal users.

For example, read the first 4 paragraphs of the article.

For example ...
"The idea is to cater for people who are happy with their smartphone, but want to cut their monthly bills". "It is also to cater for the growing business practice of bring your own device".

The plan is mentioned on the Business Homepage for three.ie [here], the link to the plan is [here].
No mention whatsoever of the plan on the Personal section.

JTMan

Kensington wrote: »

The plan is mentioned on the Business Homepage for three.ie [here], the link to the plan is [here].
No mention whatsoever of the plan on the Personal section.

The SBP article talks, in the future tense, about a new product that is about to launch and not a pre-existing product.

If it is business-only and if it is a pre-existing product, then the article in the SBP is highly misleading.

Maybe it is business-only and pre-existing, the article did not give that impression, I hope that is not the case. Delete the thread if it is !!

kn

Just a PS 3 (at least the broadband) has been down all day. I know I'm on it. Only back up and running a while ago...barely.

kn

Cushie Butterfield wrote: »

Two things:

1) Anyone thinking of switching to Three should make it their business to get a prepay SIM & test it out thoroughly first to make sure that they can get coverage at home, at work/college & anywhere else where they regularly hang out/visit. If you travel a lot & need constant coverage especially for work be very careful. Twelve months is a long time for anyone who has problems in that regard.

I don't think there are any worries on that score as Vodafone and 3 have merged their networks (eg Vodafone network is providing edge coverage where 3 3g does not reach) and 3 have masts all over the place with the NBS.

jimmycrackcorm

balfe1990 wrote: »

Do you really need 10,000 minutes a month? That's like 5 hours a day of talk-time...

If you're my wife you do but I only need data, lots of days, on fact torrents of the stuff so I'll ignore Vodafone red and stick to three

Eathrin

One of the best things about this deal is that it drives competition to even better prices

batmanzed

god's toy wrote: »

I know technically you can't use hotspot/tethering with new contracts on three but I wonder if this will be enforced with this new deal?

Say what now! Excuse my ignorance, I'm with 3 the last 2½ years and use my hotspot for all my broadband requirements, (downloading, surfing, sky on demand ect) should I not be able to do this, or if I change to this plan will I lose this ability?