3 PAYG Price Increases
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From: andy on 23 Mar 2010 06:33 On 22 Mar, 16:09, "Jeremy Porteous" <REMOVEjeremyporteousT...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Just got a text from 3 PAYG redirecting me to a website listing many price > increases from 22nd April: > > Voicemail - was free, now 15p/min > Landlines/crossnetwork - was 20p/min, now 25p/min > MMS - was 25p, now 30p > International calls - various increases > 084/087 - up from 15p/min or 15p/call to 20p/min or 20p/call > 09/070 - also increasing > > That's a pretty comprehensive increase across the board! > > JP Three have presumably announced this just now so as to give a month's notice to existing customers on that tariff But they aren't giving prospective new customers a month's notice, as there is no mention of it at all on their tariff page http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go/What_it_costs What is more, I've read people commenting that the link in the message to the new rates only works from a mobile, and access from a PC doesn't work http://ghp.three.co.uk/comms/payg/a More than ever, this makes 3's so-called Terminate The Rate campaign look like an exercise in practiced mendacity I'm wondering if 3 SIMs on Flat12 will become collectors' items
From: Theo Markettos on 23 Mar 2010 06:59 andy <andy.ggrps(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > What is more, I've read people commenting that the link in the message > to the new rates only works from a mobile, and access from a PC > doesn't work http://ghp.three.co.uk/comms/payg/a Interesting. My link was: http://ghp.three.co.uk/comms/payg/b I posted a link to a copy of the page earlier in the thread, but the prices are the same as reported here. > I'm wondering if 3 SIMs on Flat12 will become collectors' items I'm on Flat12 and got the text. So they might be trying to apply it to Flat12 customers too. Theo
From: R. Mark Clayton on 23 Mar 2010 09:07 "Jeremy Porteous" <REMOVEjeremyporteousTHIS(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:ho84oj$do60$1(a)uns-a.ucl.ac.uk... > Just got a text from 3 PAYG redirecting me to a website listing many price > increases from 22nd April: > > Voicemail - was free, now 15p/min > Landlines/crossnetwork - was 20p/min, now 25p/min > MMS - was 25p, now 30p > International calls - various increases > 084/087 - up from 15p/min or 15p/call to 20p/min or 20p/call > 09/070 - also increasing > > That's a pretty comprehensive increase across the board! > > JP They rang me yesterday to which the tubbie got the standard response: - 3's standards of customer service, terms and conditions of trading and business practices are well known to me, so I won't be trading with you. BTW are they still super-gluing SIM's into phones?
From: Steve Terry on 23 Mar 2010 11:35 "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message news:DLudnaxX5J9kITXWnZ2dnUVZ8sSdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > "Jeremy Porteous" <REMOVEjeremyporteousTHIS(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > news:ho84oj$do60$1(a)uns-a.ucl.ac.uk... >> Just got a text from 3 PAYG redirecting me to a website listing many >> price increases from 22nd April: >> >> Voicemail - was free, now 15p/min >> Landlines/crossnetwork - was 20p/min, now 25p/min >> MMS - was 25p, now 30p >> International calls - various increases >> 084/087 - up from 15p/min or 15p/call to 20p/min or 20p/call >> 09/070 - also increasing >> >> That's a pretty comprehensive increase across the board! >> JP > > They rang me yesterday to which the tubbie got the standard response: - > 3's standards of customer service, terms and conditions of trading and > business practices are well known to me, so I won't be trading with you. > I've never known a phone network to change so much. e.g. complete reversal from providing no data, to being data oriented > > BTW are they still super-gluing SIM's into phones? > > They've not done that for at least 5 years, they've gone from guarding their sims (banning them from sale on ebay) to giving them away. The price changes won't make much difference to me as i use my 3pay for it's on net calls and data. When calling off net i use another phone, which i'll be using to call my 3 Voicemail with Steve Terry -- Get a free Three 3pay Sim with �2 bonus after �10 top up http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276
From: andy on 23 Mar 2010 16:29
On 23 Mar, 10:59, Theo Markettos <theom+n...(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > andy <andy.gg...(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > > What is more, I've read people commenting that the link in the message > > to the new rates only works from a mobile, and access from a PC > > doesn't workhttp://ghp.three.co.uk/comms/payg/a > > Interesting. My link was:http://ghp.three.co.uk/comms/payg/b > > I posted a link to a copy of the page earlier in the thread, but the prices > are the same as reported here. > > > I'm wondering if 3 SIMs on Flat12 will become collectors' items > > I'm on Flat12 and got the text. So they might be trying to apply it to > Flat12 customers too. > > Theo that's interesting I have a SIM that says it's on Flat12, only activated yesterday it's lent to someone in a dongle with mobile broadband add-on at the moment, so I might check for text messages in a day or two my oldest 3 SIM, on WePay, hasn't received anything oddly, these 2 and the latest one are the only payg tariffs I can find described on the 3 website, but there was definitely something before WePay, as mine was spposedly on it though unused for a couple of years |