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It might just be a result of all traffic being sent via the UK (ostensibly for billing reasons). I did notice that 4G was annoyingly slow when in the US, though it was better on some carriers than others.
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I can see why that may be the case. I noticed the EU recently was a lot better (same as at home) but when I was in New Zealand a few years back anything other than core social media sites and google maps was painful.
3 have always tried to throttle data when abroad, and they usually try and deny it, but unless youāre using social media or speed tests itās obvious. They only removed it in the EU because they legally had to. Whilst they are going on about not charging in the EU again, I have no doubt they will add throttling the moment they can legally get away with it again.
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Iām on Virgin Mobile and Iām considering moving back to EE, might be a little more expensive but I feel I would get better speeds on EE
You definitely will get better speeds on EE then Virgin mobile.
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Been with O2 for over a decade now. No complaints.
I particularly like that you are billed separately for the handset and the service. When you finish paying for the phone on an interest-free loan, it drops off and you are just paying for your service. You can pay off the phone early too.
I belive GiffGaff started that at least 4 years ago as found out from an Enginer in a previous job.
I tried Vodafone for a year when the Nokia 8210 was out and never again.
Was with Orange after that and left when they changed to EE due to handset price upgrades whne I had them free when they was orange and since then been with Three sim only since iphone 5 relased and in feb got 2 x iPhone XR contracts 
Yes but getting my PAC code out of them is hard going, will have to stand my ground.
Why are you still in contract or are you out of your minimum term?
Three have outstanding coverage. Iām on 100gb dats plan and itās very fast most of the time. There sim deals arenāt too bad either I picked up my 100gb aim for Ā£20 a month. Iāve never at all used EE but switching to 3 shouldnāt be an issue. They do have a offers app called Wuntu which has decent offers and competitions on. 
Are they giving you trouble? Itās a legal requirement to give you a PAC code immediately, or within two hours by text.
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What makes you say that? Virgin uses EEās network.
I agree. Iāve found that they throttle like crazy outside the EU.
They donāt advertise that you can roam on 4G but at least in the US you can. Doesnāt really matter though because theyāre throttling to 1mbps.
On which network? 4G on a T-Mobile US sim is great. But 4G on T-Mobile roaming on my Three sim is almost unusable (ok i exaggerate!)
Three are known to throttle abroad, but t mobile use very different frequencies to the UK , so one of your phoneās might have t - mobiles bands and one not as well
I agree. But it was the same phone that I used to test it with the T-Mobile and Three sims.
Itās an iPhone X so it works across 40-ish bands. The days of dual/tri band phones are long gone 
Virgin uses EEās network masts but all of the network (internet, calls and SMS) now go through Virgin as of maybe a year or so ago, they moved everyone over. It doesnāt perform anywhere near as well as EEās network. I was with them at the time it was awful - some things were fast and others would be entirely broken.
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Band support issues is still very common , even the S10 has differences across the different markets for 4G , itās much more common in the likes of Huawei, OnePlus Xiaomi.
But a trick, 3 also roams on at&t in the US, so if itās very slow try switching.
Already tried that. It was slow, but I didnāt have an AT&T sim to compare it to, so I donāt know if it was the host network or Threeās throttling.