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

JTMan · 07-04-2013 08:46AM #1

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 · 07-04-2013 09:07AM

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

MagicMarker · 07-04-2013 09:13AM

homingbird wrote: »

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

??

homingbird · 07-04-2013 09:32AM

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 · 07-04-2013 09:42AM

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

Davexirl · 07-04-2013 09:44AM

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 · 07-04-2013 10:18AM

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 · 07-04-2013 10:24AM

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 · 07-04-2013 10:35AM

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 · 07-04-2013 10:39AM

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 · 07-04-2013 10:41AM

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 · 07-04-2013 10:48AM

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 · 07-04-2013 11:09AM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:03PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:14PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:16PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:23PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:24PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:25PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:26PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:36PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:37PM

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 · 07-04-2013 12:58PM

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 · 07-04-2013 01:01PM

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 · 07-04-2013 01:15PM

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 · 07-04-2013 01:17PM

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

07-04-2013 01:43PM

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 · 07-04-2013 01:54PM

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 · 07-04-2013 02:22PM

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.

07-04-2013 02:26PM

Here you go.

breathn · 07-04-2013 02:27PM

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?

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

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