topic Re: 5G on PAYG in Mobile Network discussions

5G on PAYG

Plymouthbloke1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:04 GMT

Hi there,

My Vodafone PAYM contract is coming to the end of its minimum term in a few months and I am looking at various options as I’m going to retain my handset (iPhone 12 Pro)….

As a few EE based MVNO’s have launched 5G on their PAYG services, I was wondering if there way any word on EE doing the same themselves?

Thanks

Re: 5G on PAYG

XRaySpeX — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:25:54 GMT

Not at present.

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Plymouthbloke1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 01:45:16 GMT

Thanks for the brutally honest response lol!

Seeing as EE’s 4G is nearly always much faster (sometimes twice as fast) than Vodafone’s 5G in most areas I go to, it’s probably not that important anyway. Thanks anyway! 😊

Re: 5G on PAYG

Leanne_T — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 08:04:25 GMT

Morning @Plymouthbloke1

Thanks for coming back to the community 🙂

Please see our What plan do I need to connect to 5G?, Help page for more information.

Thanks.

Leanne.

Re: 5G on PAYG

Plymouthbloke1 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 15:03:10 GMT

Hi Leanne, thanks for the information… as I’m just looking for a sim as the phone is perfectly fine for my needs right now. I’ll have a look again nearer the time to see if it’s available then…. Thanks again 🙂

Re: 5G on PAYG

Leanne_T — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 15:08:13 GMT

No problem at all @Plymouthbloke1

Have a lovely evening 🙂

Leanne.

Re: 5G on PAYG

bulldog147 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:19:46 GMT

EE are disgrace refused 5G on Pay As You Go. Only 4G. Pointless. Went to smarty 5G pay as you go 60GB for £10 a month and getting good speed over 600Mbps down and over 60Mbps up.

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Plymouthbloke1 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:01:31 GMT

Three is far too inconsistent.

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bulldog147 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 11:22:04 GMT

I disagree with you. EE are just pure greedy. No wonder people's switch to smarty pay as you go for 5G. I think EE ought to be ashamed of themselves of forcing customer into monthly contract if they want 5G service.

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Plymouthbloke1 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:59:21 GMT

As I’ve said, data speeds on Three are too inconsistent… I’ve used them in the past. One minute you’re hurtling along at 200-300mbit/s then all of a sudden it grinds to a slow crawl for three or four minutes, then it’s on steroids again.

I’d rather pay more for a consistent service…. and that service is supplied by anyone other than Three.

If 5G isn’t available when my contract is up, that isn’t going to bother me - it was just a “nice to have”.

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bulldog147 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:16:38 GMT

This is why I always want EE as they are pretty good with 5G but they say no 5G on pay as you go but told me if I want 5G with EE as it will have to order pay monthly contract 12 or 24 months (That's put me off)

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Chris_B — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:50:23 GMT

@bulldog147 5G is still rolling out so it’ll alway be contract customers who get it first it was the same with 4G. Smarty ( any mvno network) need to attract customers as they don’t have their own network so they will do anything they can to just that.

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Bagger74 — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:20:26 GMT

So Looked into this also.. look at 1pmobile.com

£15 quid a month 50Gb, 5G on EE

It;s brilliant.. and still on EE.

Just cancelled my EE to got EE on 1p mobile 🙂

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wozwebs — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:41:38 GMT

So, to confirm, 1pmobile uses EE and you get 5G with no speed restrictions?

Just joined EE from O2 and paying £18pm for 125GB p/m but with the 100MB speed restriction. 14 day cooling off so might consider this instead. Looking at my average usage its less than 20GB per month

Re: 5G on PAYG

PARKERTEK — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 05:08:08 GMT

Any news at all for 5G coming to PAYG? It’s now Nov 2022. Just wondered if there was any developments in the 8 months gone by

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Chris_B — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 07:39:38 GMT

@PARKERTEK Nope, Not A Thing, until 5G is more widely available I don’t see PAYG getting it. PAYG didn’t get 4G calling until years after it was launched PAYG only has data over 4G it then dropped to 3G for calls/texts.

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bulldog147 — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:16:46 GMT

1p mobile got 5G on payasyougo (by ee network) far much better than ee payasyougo (4G boredom)

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foxtrotmike — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 21:35:21 GMT

Thanks for sharing that, very useful I hope you are getting on well with it?

My Summer Deal with EE ends the end of Jan so i will be looking to move.

Re: 5G on PAYG

DJHarvey — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:32:08 GMT

EE Customer Services - update please for 5G on EE PAYG.

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DJHarvey — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:35:10 GMT

EE Customer Services - is 5G going to be available on EE PAYG soon, or do we all need to switch to 1pMobile ?.