My sim will give me 30GB for £20. But buying a new sim will give 60GB

[skajd]

For a £20 pack, EE have doubled the data from 30 GB to 60 GB if you buy a new sim.

If you want to increase your data on your own sim it will still only give you 30 GB for £20.

So to take advantage of the the offer you must buy a new, empty, sim with a new phone number.

That's nuts?

[skajd]

All I can see you saying is "tough luck" "deal with it" "get over it".

Existing customers get no benefit. Therefore as an avid bargain hunter I will "deal with it" by planting my money where "the soil is more fertile".

[mikeliuk]

Hi @skajd ,

Ironically enough, roughly seven months ago I was in a similar position to yourself, thought the same way, and went in the other direction. I was previously with Three for 24 months paying roughly GBP 19 for unlimited data. They were not able to improve on the GBP 16/mth offer open to all newcomers which I could get better using a cashback deal on a new contract. I was instead enticed by a 20% discount and swappable Amazon Prime Video Smart benefit and became an EE customer where from my relative position "the soil is more fertile".

I highly recommend not to port your number until you've tried out any new network for a week or two in the places where you usually use your phone. One other important factor was that Three coverage was not very good in my town (quite a few blackspots) and the SINR was quite poor where I keep my 4G LTE router. I originally signed on with Three without knowing the coverage situation and was lucky that it was at least usable for most of those 24 months.

As an avid bargain hunter, I'm sure you are aware that such has been the situation with both mobile contracts and home wired internet contracts at least for several decades. To give another example that many may recognize, some years ago I moved from Virgin Media to BT as Virgin Media would not offer me anything better, even after being a customer for over a decade. Best of luck with whatever you decide!

[skajd]

Thanks for your reply. You know your stuff (UK internet stuff).

As an avid bargain hunter who has just returned from living in Thailand for over 20 years (some faaantaastic bargains there!), I'm afraid I don't know much about the past few decades of UK internet. Except ....

For 10-15 years I have been paying the equivalent of about 35p per day and pay by the day, for mobile internet and simply tethering it to my computer. If there are days/weeks/months that you don't use internet then it costs you nothing. No contract. No monthly payment. Just per day.

On the several occassions I popped back to UK I was disgusted by the internet situation. Having to sign contracts and sign up for long periods and not allowed to tether and speed caps and how expensive it is. It makes UK a third world country as far as internet goes.

It's getting better nowadays but still needs to hugely improve.

Internet should be like petrol. Simply buy it when you need it. You don't need to sign a contract to buy petrol do you? ... Do you? So these internet companies are not what I would call my friends. No matter how many huge pictures they fill up their websites with.