I recently moved house and it took two weeks to get the broadband connected, thankfully I have an unlimited data plan…
It is with Three though and to be honest I’m not overly impressed with their coverage or speeds. Would be tempted to switch to EE
Where’s the 40gb - I’m interested 
EE allow it online. What I dont know is how to activate the phone without a sim.
Also what happens if you disable the old phone and then don’t have a new phone so you just have a mobile plan with no sim allocated?
I might upgrade this year. If I do I’ll try and report back unless reliving it is too much for my sanity….
If I do when the new iPhone comes out. Rumours are that they are dropping the mini after this year so might do an immediate upgrade. But not decided yet!
Unfortunately this is also me.
I have a 12 mini (+ Apple Watch/ Apple TV/ iPad Pro/ MacBook Pro/ apple one family/ 2gb iCloud storage……) But if the form factor discontinued would prefer to have something that will last a year longer (and better battery life would then go amiss!)
My thinking is also that after the next SE they are going to move to a Face ID/ power button Touch ID full screen version with no home button potentially. So would make sense to ditch the mini and have the SE as the small phone from that point (loads of ifs in that but could make sense)
Interesting. On the face of it “why?” but that’s what I said when Mondo appeared offering prepaid cards…
Not sure ‘convenience’ of signing up for both in one go is a big factor. Its pretty low friction to get a phone contract or mobile service these days. Also tweaking of data packages isn’t exactly brain surgery and making it easy is as likely to lead to a loss of revenue as a gain…
Not for me in its current form, but there are a couple of advantages I can think of here -
- Customers are willing to bear a monthly cost for mobile service - not so much for banking services. That’s probably the real driver here.
- Extra security - making a big transfer? Only from a phone with our SIM in. Plus, your bank is now in a position to block phishing calls/SMSs.
Not without disadvantages… running up big bill this month / no money in your bank? No phone service for you either - and we’ll know right away. Similarly an IT outage at one company can now stop you both calling for a cab and paying for it.
My sim-only plan is coming to an end with Three and I might switch to someone else.
The 5G speeds can be crazy high but other times it says 4G that feels like the old days of WAP!
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Yeah it’s a congested network causing it.
If you’re happy with Three then smarty is good if you don’t want a contract.
I’ve both smarty and O2 (opposing mast structures) and never without a signal, and to be fair O2 is improving big time (coincidentally days before I move 180 miles away 
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The UK is so behind, run multiple systems IE PAYG / contract.
Three will no doubt be the first to offer esim across the board. Hopefully to smarty too.
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They rolled it out for apple watch which is probably the easiest way to trial it, think that’s how all networks started out with esim.
Three will get there.
EE are ok, just rather expensive and hit and miss.
Three has been good for me for the most part. Vodafone too.
O2 is very hit and miss 
Random esim fact, I very recently Iearned that Vodafone and EE both don’t support UMTS on eSims.
Wouldn’t worry about it too much… 3G will be gone in 2/3 years.
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It use to be o2 when the iPhone first launched 
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I cannot convince my company that launching it on Android is what customers want. Despite knowing that customers do want it! I’ve been trying for over 6 years.
All I can say is please moan at your operator, tweet them asking about it, complain it’s not available etc
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3 have decided that my current package no longer exists, now that the contract is up, I have options… One of those is the actual current package I’m on but it’s a 1 month rolling contract rather than a 12 month,. All they want for this is an additional £9 per month, on top of what I’m paying them already.
So I’m off to iD mobile which uses the 3 network. I get more data than now and it’s £2 cheaper than what I pay, plus a £40 gift card.
3 cut my data off when I was in Portugal a couple of weeks ago and i’d not gone anywhere near my spend limit for the daily roaming charge or the data fair usage limit ended. They couldn’t reconnect me at all while I was away and didn’t know what had happened 
Ended up complaining when I got back home and their initial response was to offer a months credit but after a little rant I was asked would I like to leave? So they’ve agreed to end my contract 15 months early at no charge! Now looking for a new Network that doesn’t use 3
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Not sure what you pay or how much you use?
Smarty have 50 GB for £10, 100gb for £12, with unlimited calls, SMS, pic messaging and 12gb roaming. They use Three network, unrestricted.
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…and on a rolling one month contract. Plus a £10 referral gift card.
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