Three feel at home warning
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Guys just a heads up.
Travelled to Nurburgring this weekend just gone, Three now offer feel at home in whole of Europe which was a blessing, I had previously turned off my data in France & Germany and used wifi when I went last year.
I used the ferry from Dover to Dunkirk at 4am, most of the journey I tried to sleep, I had connected to their free wifi to try surf the web but it was poor, it must of disconnected while I was dosing.
I expected the network to run out of signal a few miles out to sea and connect to French network once we arrived.
When I got into France noticed phone was going bezerk with text messages, I just expected these to be the usual rubbish from Three. Upon stopping for a break in Belgium actually turns out I had run up a bill.
£36 worth of data in 2 hours, why? because my phone had connected to a maritime network which isn't covered by "feel at home" and all my apps were trying to update using the maritime network. The network must of been poor as well.
Three have said its in the small print which now I have looked it is. Having never traveled by ferry before (always eurotunnel) this has caught me out and would imagine there are a few others it will catch out.
safe to say on the way back I turned data off.
Travelled to Nurburgring this weekend just gone, Three now offer feel at home in whole of Europe which was a blessing, I had previously turned off my data in France & Germany and used wifi when I went last year.
I used the ferry from Dover to Dunkirk at 4am, most of the journey I tried to sleep, I had connected to their free wifi to try surf the web but it was poor, it must of disconnected while I was dosing.
I expected the network to run out of signal a few miles out to sea and connect to French network once we arrived.
When I got into France noticed phone was going bezerk with text messages, I just expected these to be the usual rubbish from Three. Upon stopping for a break in Belgium actually turns out I had run up a bill.
£36 worth of data in 2 hours, why? because my phone had connected to a maritime network which isn't covered by "feel at home" and all my apps were trying to update using the maritime network. The network must of been poor as well.
Three have said its in the small print which now I have looked it is. Having never traveled by ferry before (always eurotunnel) this has caught me out and would imagine there are a few others it will catch out.
safe to say on the way back I turned data off.
OldGermanHeaps said:
Vodafone does. Not throttled too, 3 is heavily throttled when roaming.
Just looked on Vodafone they do (at the moment) a £25 sim only contract with 25gb and 4gb roaming. Not quite the unlimited data and roaming I get with Three but the closest thing. Been having a few issues with 4g at home as well recently it used to work brilliantly but recently struggle for H+ at home.
Might investigate Vodafone.
rottie102 said:
lots of 1 stars there.
Just had a mate over who's on Vodafone, says the internet abroad is good...... Had 0% signal at my house.
Can't understand why I've gone from (on Three) 4g in house to struggling for H in the last 2 months, possibly taken out of service a mast?
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