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2746

Is that a basics plan through mobiles.co.uk?

I’m considering Vodafone when I finish O2 as coverage never seems to die at peak times. Only infequent but still noticeable.

My two at the moment:

O2 - 125gb (doubled to 250gb through Volt) for £13
Lebara - 50GB for £1.25 for 6 months

Three/smarty/ID would be nice but the signal is very hit and miss even city centre Wrexham for whatever reason, be fine once they rollout 5G.

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Wouldn’t mind a bit of admin every other month.

Do they remind you or contact you when to provide the statements for redemption?

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Also this which includes Go Roam on payg.

2747

Any cashback redemption I’ve had to do in the past I’ve always had to make a note in the calendar for it… no reminders or anything like that.

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2748

Absolutely no chance. They don’t want you to redeem it. Gotta be on the ball.

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2749

Not basics but through mobiles.co.uk - confusingly the basics plans are often same price as “full fat” plans.

They don’t remind you but you know the redemption dates upfront so just do a reminder. Upload bill, cheque appears a week or so later, cash via app.

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2750

Think the basics plans don’t come with 5G, and you can’t roam or send pic messages?

2751

I think so but have no never been on one.

2752

Just checked, you can roam, but nothing chargeable otherwise (short codes or MMS).

And no 5G.

2753

EE 2 x £13.50 125GB All Rounder ( no caps and one add on)

We use one of the addons for Xbox game pass ultimate which I think normally is £12.99 for it’s a 51p contract and the other floats with TNT and roaming.

I also have a voxi line that was supposed to end well over a year ago but it keeps working for free.

2754

That with EE broadband?

2755

£16.65 for 101GB on EE
+£7.55 for Apple Watch plan :grimacing:

Also have a vodafone SIM from work.

I really don’t like how EE price their plans and that everyone seems to be on an individually haggled price, but they’ve worked the most reliably for me.

2756

They have the most reliable coverage where I am but they’re not keen on haggling for retention these days (or maybe I just refuse to pay these prices now).

We’ve gone from five EE Sims down to one which won’t be getting renewed in November unless THEY pay ME.

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First speed test in Austria

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2758

What device?

2759

iPhone 15P, iOS 18 beta has completely fixed my Apple Pay issues, before I’d have to restart between almost every use

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2760

Correct - higher price for BB but meant cheap access to EE sims

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2761

Yeah its not a bad deal for the network tbh, I wish it wasnt a PPPoE ISP but I am tempted to switch in the future with a good deal and move the kids off Smarty.

2762

EE broadband is pppoe? Isn’t it just the generic BT credentials.

What’s the practical difference if an isp isn’t pppoe ?

2763

There’s some PPP chat going on here.

I’ve got really fast access via EE without knowing what PPP-me even is.

I’d like to suggest that us normals aren’t particularly stupid.

2764

Most BT/nearly all BT Openreach are pppoe based.

Generally if you use isp supplied hardware it’s not much of an issue. A small over head which won’t effect much (slightly slower) but if you run other kit as a gateway like unifi or pfsense it can have bigger performance issues at 900mb+ connections due to the way software encoding works basically.

I run unifi so in my case it’s a negative over sky who don’t use PPPoE. I work from home so make heavy use of the bandwidth.

Most people to be honest don’t know much about WiFi and over buy their net connection speed and wonder why they don’t get the speed through multiple walls as I have had to improve it for lots.

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2765

What do you do that’s heavy bandwidth?