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EE Sim Only - Unlimited Minutes and Texts, 20GB for £22pm (£168 cashback - effective £8pm) @ fonehouse
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Update 1
Cashback increased to £168, so effective £8pm!
Decent price after cashback for 20GB on the EE Essential plan, which gives you access to BT Sport / Apple Music / Prime Video etc
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Edited by Mark, 23 August 2019
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sorted bySounds like it but do not be scared off! Buy this deal if you like the offer and EE.
Follow these steps if you buy this deal and give them your bank account details to pay in your cashback.
Grab your pac code also as you'll need this to move your number across to the sim. Once the sim has been delivered to you, apply for a transfer for your number using the pac, your number and the number on the new sim.
Step 1: Go to the FAQs and jot down which months bills you need to upload to them via your account on the fonehouse website. You'll also have your EE order on there. Different length contracts have different months asked for.
Step 2: After your first bill on EE is produced make calendar entries so from that day on x months from now you know that your bill has been produced and needs to be uploaded for cashback. Register with EE to track your remaining data allowance and to download your bills.
Step 3: Use your phone and wait for the bills to be produced.
Step 4: Once the bill for the month needed to be uploaded has been produced, go into your EE app on your phone and download the bill.
Step 5: Sign into your fonehouse account and upload the bill from EE which is typically in pdf format. They need the first page to confirm usage and address etc but I would just send them the bill as you get it from EE.
Step 6: Sit back and wait for the confirmation email and the electronic payment via BACs from fonehouse into your bank account as cashback.
My instructions sound long but in reality it's 10 minutes of your time to save a lot of money and have a lot of fun on the best UK network in my opinion for coverage and speed.
Edit: something I didn't include but is totally applicable is the scenario that you want this deal but are already on EE...AND want to keep your number. Now this way is longer but it's worth it imo.
Step 1: Grab your pac code from your existing SIM via the new pac or stac code text messaging service (Google for more details) and order this deal.
Step 2: Go to a network like 3, virgin etc. And order yourself a free pay as you go SIM card.
Step 3: wait for the pay as you go SIM card to be delivered to you.
Step 4: call up 3 etc and provide them with your pac code and move your phone number across to the pay as you go SIM. Depending on you chosen network this could take a few days but it's worth it.
Step 5: once the number you want to keep is on the pay as you go SIM card, request another PAC code.
Step 6: call up EE and give them your PAC code and move your number back to the new SIM ordered from this deal.
Step 7: Continue from step 4 prior to the edit.
Further edit: according to the bills from EE are generated quicker than when EE eventually gets round to sending you an email. Early this is likely to be good to know but once you get the first bill date of generation, you can make calendar entries from that date onwards anyway to be sure you don't miss out on the cashback. (edited)
Ee had best coverage personaly..
No worries. Its very very simple and there's no way for them to not pay you as its electronic submission online.
I have two sisters, one cousin and now a friend on similar deals £8 EE 20gb sim only deal when that went hot.
None of them have had problems and you normally 30 to 60 days depending on the retailer policy to claim cashback so worry not if on the day of the bill, you're at work and too exhausted to do it.
It's so easy, it's rather tedious after a few times and you end up wondering why don't they just lower the price to begin with but you'd be surprised how many people don't bother or forget to submit the bills for cashback. It was more hassle back in the day using post and then fighting with them if they claimed they never received it!
Expect it like Virgin for Home Broadband customers only, the time has come where mobile telcos are ISPs but EE/BT will financially rape the market as long as possible.
It will, it’s Openreach Wireless, in 5 years it will be mature base stations and way ahead of BT FTTP.
About then 5.5G will be shockingly amazing, thankfully BT will have a national competitor with 5G and Three have thee high speed spectrum.
Things can only get better
Legend mate, I will most likely go for this, EE coverage and speed Better than anyone else for me and at this price for a bit of work, no-brainer
6months. Don't forget to cancel it as nobody will ask you to do it and they gonna charge you after month 6,
For me EE aren't great with customer service but they a damn sight better than 3 who seem to be determined to do anything other than what you ask them to do.
You'd have better chance of getting what you want but not asking for it! Please 3 DONT offer me unlimited data for £10pm...
Vodafone haven't been too bad when I used them. BT are right up there with 3 imo.
It's true. When the kids grow up they'll be using ridiculous amounts of data and maybe even 16mbs won't be enough bandwidth to keep em all happy.
Yep try a virgin sim if you can get one for free. I think I've had this problem before and they always say order one online.
I will say that they don't have access to the band 20 800mhz spectrum on EE hence they generally don't have as good coverage or priority on the parent network but my hope is that for you, they'll be able to provide ample speed and have a tariff that will help resolve the unlimited data issue.
Netflix will struggle on such a slow speed from Vodafone. Even web browsing wont be great with the amount of ads online now.
I would think Seaniboys deal on EE would suit you. 500gb is tough to blast through with your usage. The kids will make mince meat of it though. I know I blast through maybe a couple hundred gb alone myself on unlimited. (edited)
Live chat on Three is better than a call
Live Chat on EE is more sore and hard work than a call
must be basic enquiries, try EE when you have network problems or the account does crazy things... clueless, believe their own propaganda that they are the best so you can’t have signal/speed problems, apparently - EE mobile - it’s so good physics is obsolete LOL
Originally you had a single aerial, for receive and transmit and you can only do either transmit or receive (another way to think of it is; transmit = upload, recieve = download) at a time. So you would have to wait to switch. That is more or less fine, for a single device, imagine when you have 5 or 6 devices wirelessly connected to your router.
Soo the solution to the above one way traffic is to have a second aerial and you dedicate one to recieve and one to transmit. 2x2 means 2x recieve and 2x transmit. That means less congestion for your devices and less slow down. The downside is that you start eating wifi channels. 2.4ghz is in many cities and towns saturated.
Most definitely. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to play around with the router over the weekend and try mess with the frequency settings. I’ll also source a virgin SIM card cheap and try that. Thank you for all the valuable info. Like I say I hadn’t got a clue about the frequency setting so will hopefully work out. 🏻
Same here. EE are the best for speed and coverage where I'm based but they're very expensive normally. I'm trying to switch over to them for 4G speeds.
Got a family member on 3 and even yesterday out of interest I decided to run a test. Samer server, same location for phones, both on 4G, so all same variables, both phones are recent models capable of high speeds.
3 got around 25mb, my EE 130. Says enough for me and I get better coverage less drop outs and no random notifications from 3 that say "data services have been suspended" and 3 don't even know how to help with that
EE don't so conference calls the standard way by adding a call literally to another call and merging. They make everyone phone a number and some system like that which is very long and impractical which is my only problem which is why this family member doesn't switch over yet to EE (edited)
When Dialaphone went pop years back I lost out on a longterm cashback deal.
Once bitten...
Way too early. Networks are pushing it though for the luxurious impatient and cutting edge few with money to burn.
Power to them I say. If you got that money and want in with 5G, who am I to judge? Plus there's one less person on the 4G network taking up bandwidth.
Unlimited plans would be nice but depends on how much you see yourself using the phone. I struggle to get past 20gb. That's continuously streaming music when I am not on WiFi and posting pictures. So got to think about it imo. Otherwise you're paying extra for not using it?
I probably won't adopt it until the second round of spectrum auction is conducted. Then we'll know for sure who's the network to be with for it, at least on paper. I reckon EE will bulldoze the second round. 3 are bragging about their position right now but they've done such a rubbish job with 4G, it's hurt their credentials in my book. People do get good speeds on their network but it's throttled massively during peak times for me.
Yes you need to leave EE and then rejoin EE, so get a Three sim, move your number to it, wait for maybe 2/3 days then move it back.
Might of been better to order one sim as unlimited sim, other 2 with lower data sim and than gift 2 of 3 sims 100gb from the 1tb / unlimited data allowance
I personally don't think so. Used to be with EE. It has great speeds, at times unbelievable. But outside london, the coverage was hit & miss. Mainly signal strength issue.
Moved to vodafone few months back. Mainly due to 5 times data for £3 less than what I was paying. I find much better coverage outside london (I had 1 more EE SIM). Signal is stable. Even in remote island, I had signal & data, while EE didn't.
Yes EE speed is better (100mbps+ in london), no doubt, but I personally didn't need that extra speed. I tried 3, and got horrible speed, I wont even call that 3G.
Below is a sample of the speed I get with the 20gb vodafone SIM (fonehouse):
It fluctuates between 50mbps to 70. Outside london, worst I got was 35mbps.
Unlike 3, both EE and vodafone has got full speed 4G in europe.
For roaming outside europe, EE charges around £5 per day for 150-500MB data.
Vodafone charges you around £6 per day, and then you can use your UK plan allowance! I personally find it better. You are only charged on the day you use data/call.
Now it's your call!
Hmm yes I see your point. I wasn't aware how good the deals on Mobiles was.
That's true. It won't as we aren't paying the contract up front. It's up to you. I understand your concern and it's good to question the financial integrity of such companies.
I've gone for it for my parents and my sister's and cousins have done the deal too. Same with friends. It's been too good to turn away.
Can you comment on how easy and reliable you found the cashback claim process to be. Seems like alot of admin!
ThrEE times the incompetence
If you want the best experience when calling EE if you don’t get a irish accent hang up and try again, or else prepare for a Child Tax Credit numbnuts who hasn’t a clue, in Ireland it’s the few in U.K. it’s the many. Go irish.
Disclaimer:Based on being a EE customer.
Not at all, Three sell one product so scripts and processes are easier, training a onshore monkey in multiple products seems beyond BT Consumer brands CTC employees capabilities, multilearning isn’t easy with a basic U.K. education, multitasking is way beyond even comprehension.
Out of Three, BT and EE, Ireland and India are way ahead of the CTC raised numpties.
“I don’t understand” “can you explain that again”, “that doesn’t SEEM right” are to be a regular responses from BT/EE U.K. call centre staff, at all costs I avoid calling their shambles and hang up unless a irish voice greets me.... “ok let’s get this sorted” seems to be the general response by Ireland or India, granted India is a bit more restrictive by being a third party, but negativity responses of needing to repeat yourself to BT/EE staff on their own products they are meant to understand is shockingly poor par.
That’s my problem. EE for me has the speed but not the data allowance and the others have no speed but plenty of allowance. I’m going to try virgin next as they piggy back off EE. Fingers crossed.
You can get upto 500GB for £50 ask to move to that EE Home Broadband plan
shop.ee.co.uk/don…ils
or else try a mino 4x4 router on a Vodafone unlimited sim
Let's hope it's the solution to your almost never ending problem.
Yeah sure no problem.
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True. And a lot of the time mobile networks can give you better speed than fibre optic to the cabinet companies.
I agree with you. They should give unlimited data to everyone IMO as well. However there are some people that will take the mickey and try downloading the Internet. Happens all the time during peak times on VM etc. Slows the service right down so they had to throttle people or anyone that wasn't using a VPN so they could see the data packets. That changed recently though and most say in their tcs that they don't throttle...
Excellent, thanks again!
Yup I’m 6 months in B612 and it’s over any networks hardware I’ve tried.
Fairness is fine for network performance but if someone isn’t being overly excessive on a mobile broadband then they shouldn’t be over zealous unless they really are negatively impacting other users on the same base station. T&C should be very clear at the point of sale. Likewise, no go ? Money spent elsewhere.
the T&C gave all become obsolete thanks to Net Neutrality EU and one I hope the U.K. are keeps.
People read them.
That’s so funny I almost missed your second point
Tbh I'm gonna get murdered for this but I honestly find it easier if I don't care. A wise man once told me, you can be right or you can be happy. With things like this, this applies. I'm happier not caring because at the end of the day this country doesn't care about doing thing right or saving money. All it cares about is fulfilling the wishes of a select few. We all pay our taxes but we have absolutely no say in how its spent. Can't trust any politician to actually do what they promise they will in their manifesto because they don't care and there is no consequences if they go back on their word.
The UK political and ruling system is long over due a shake up. I'm in favour of devolution personally. Then again we could be here all day going down this route. (edited)
Hope three 5G brings a massive distruption to home broadband
Looked at that just now and got really excited, but its a 24 month contract