EE Nano Sim £45 for 15Gb per month for 10 months!!

[Richard10002]

Seemed too good to be true but, for £45, thought it worth the risk, so bought one of these yesterday and it arrived today:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150GB-4G-Data-15GB-Preloaded-Per-Month-EE-Sim-Card-Use-In-Phones-Dongles-tablet-/151585860660?

 

Slotted it into a sim adapter and put it in my new Huawei e5776, and its working fine. I've used 270Mb so far, so no way of knowing whether the 15Gb per month, for 10 months is for real yet.

 

Tried to log into canal world, but it refused as it found adult content... I guess if you remove the c from canal ???

 

To overcome this, EE get you to pay them £2 on a credit card, and refund it. This satisfies them you are over 18, and that canalworld wont corrupt you - however, this facility isnt available this evening, so I'll have to see what happens tomorrow.

 

I also have not been able to get into "my account" at EE, which may resolve itself tomorrow.

 

I'm using the EE free 100Gb per month sim right now. This has worked great for two months, but expires on Monday. Hopefully, this new sim will replace it, and enable me to dump Three and their One Plan that is not what it used to be.

[Guest]

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Edited February 11, 2015 by The Dog House

[Richard10002]

That seems expensive to me.

 

I am on three PAYG on my iPhone and get get an add on which gives me unlimited data for £15 pcm.

 

Is that tetherable, or just on the phone? My understanding is that there are no unlimited tetherable deals available any more, now that Threes One Plan has been limited to 4Gb per month.

 

The deal I think I've got is £45 for the whole caboodle for the 10 months.... which works out at £4.50 per month for 15Gb per month tetherable. Unless I'm missing something, it seems incredibly cheap? I agree it remains to be seen

[Guest]

Is that tetherable, or just on the phone? My understanding is that there are no unlimited tetherable deals available any more, now that Threes One Plan has been limited to 4Gb per month.

 

The deal I think I've got is £45 for the whole caboodle for the 10 months.... which works out at £4.50 per month for 15Gb per month tetherable. Unless I'm missing something, it seems incredibly cheap? I agree it remains to be seen

 

See edit.

 

I misread your post as £45 pcm.

 

But no, thethering is a no no.

[series3]

We have ee..£25 a month for 25gig.

great reception through the porthole window and very fast.

Receiver is like a little i phone

[kris88]

I agree £4.50 a month seems like a good deal. I'm also looking to get away from 3 the way they are treating people over the end of the one plan.

Regards kris

[GUMPY]

Seemed too good to be true but, for £45, thought it worth the risk, so bought one of these yesterday and it arrived today:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150GB-4G-Data-15GB-Preloaded-Per-Month-EE-Sim-Card-Use-In-Phones-Dongles-tablet-/151585860660?

 

Slotted it into a sim adapter and put it in my new Huawei e5776, and its working fine. I've used 270Mb so far, so no way of knowing whether the 15Gb per month, for 10 months is for real yet.

 

I'm using the EE free 100Gb per month sim right now. This has worked great for two months, but expires on Monday.

Mine is on order!

I still have one unused dan and phill sim.

the first one ran out a week ago, the second appears only to be just into its second month, have just had a txt telling me that, so with luck I wont have to activate this one until May.

So thats 5 montha free internet or 15 months for £45.

Time to watch England v Italy now

[Keeping Up]

Removing the adult content is a real PITA. The credit card debit and re-credit only works on some types and not on others - it seems generally not to work on PAYG - so your two options are either to go into the store and announce loudly that you want to look at pornography (if you say it quietly the shop assistant will announce it loudly to the whole shop for you), or phone their help line which is at a premium rate unless you have EE phone as well as data. Their helpline has their own special scam where they tell you to hold while they make the changes, but they don't ever come back to you however long you hold for so the call will cost you more than your actual data costs.

 

Then to piss you off further their removal of the block only lasts for a month and you have to go through the whole process again and again.

[smileypete]

There's an EE forum, could take it up there.

 

cheers, Pete.

~smpt~

[Richard10002]

I went into an EE shop, told her I wanted to remove the adult lock to look at canal boat stuff and John Lewis. She laughed when I mentioned removing the c from canal.

 

Anyway.... After a lot of umming and ahhing, a trip to the back office, and some phone calls to somewhere in EE, it seems no one at EE recognises the number, nor does their system, so all is not what it seems. But it's still working for me other than the sites it doesn't like. Its a PITA, so I'll probably use it as a backup for if I run out of whatever I might get as my main mobile broadband after dumping Three.

[GUMPY]

what happens if you tryto goto ee and create an account with that number?

Also what network does this site give you?

https://www.mobilephonechecker.co.uk/guides/network-checker/

Edited February 14, 2015 by Loddon

[Richard10002]

what happens if you tryto goto ee and create an account with that number?

Also what network does this site give you?

https://www.mobilephonechecker.co.uk/guides/network-checker/

The link produces :

 

We've successfully matched 07964428111 to the Orange network where it was registered in February 2006.

 

Source: https://www.mobilephonechecker.co.uk/guides/network-checker/07964428111#clip

© MobilePhoneChecker.co.uk"

 

2006!!

 

When I try to register an account it suggest that it's an Orange number but, just after entering the number and the robot test letters, it goes to a page where it says that there is a problem with the site, and I should come back later... same happens each time I try.

[GUMPY]

so it is/was an EE number that someone has created the credit on.

The orange account site is notoriously unreliable

will see what mine does when it arrives

[Richard10002]

MMM!!! 9 days on, I've used just over 5Gb, and the Mifi is showing "No Service".

 

I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for a day or so, but I think it has turned out to be a con.... unless It was part used, and I've used up the balance of the first months 15Gb.

[GUMPY]

MMM!!! 9 days on, I've used just over 5Gb, and the Mifi is showing "No Service".

 

I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for a day or so, but I think it has turned out to be a con.... unless It was part used, and I've used up the balance of the first months 15Gb.

Ooohhh not good.

You could start an eBay refund process as goods not fit for purpose.

Mines not arrived yet should have been here by now.

I will hold back on eBay feedback for a while until its proved itself assuming it arrives.

I had no service with one of my dan and phil sims, restarted router and all ok.

[bottle]

No service, is the system is down or you have been disconnected because the system is overloaded.

 

Classic turn it OFF wait for a couple of minutes and turn it On.

 

Had it recently in a known busy spot and of course it is half term.

[Richard10002]

Tried all that last night and this morning. I also tried the Dan and Phil EE sim that ran out last week, and that connects fine, (although I can only see the EE site as I have no credit).

 

Tried both again this morning, the eBay sim shows no service, the Dan and Phil sim connects fine.

[GUMPY]

Tried all that last night and this morning. I also tried the Dan and Phil EE sim that ran out last week, and that connects fine, (although I can only see the EE site as I have no credit).

 

Tried both again this morning, the eBay sim shows no service, the Dan and Phil sim connects fine.

Email the seller through ebay explaining what has happened saying you want a refund.

If no joy then use eBay dispute resoloution as item not as described, you should win and get a refund as ebay favours the buyer.

I have instigated several disputes and so far always won!

 

 

J

[Justme]

Bugger, I was considering one or two of these to replace the Three sim.

[GUMPY]

Well, the sim never arrived so I raised a complaint via eBay's resoloution system and was refunded this morning.

Richard did you get any joy from the seller with yours?

[Paul C]

I don't know if it helps but I recently bought another Three PAYG SIM (long story....I had a 12 months/12GB SIM, it time lapsed (used most of the data up) and you can only 'top up' 1 month at a time. 1GB for 1 month. But if you go online and order a new SIM, you can get 3GB/3months for £20.49.........) and it says on the packaging "Not to be resold. Property of Hutchison 3G Ltd."

 

I guess you only got the SIM, not all the packaging with it, nor the credit card sized SIM frame/holder thing.

 

So I wonder if it was EE which have picked up on the reselling of SIMs and blocked them?

[MunkeyBoy]

I pay £20 a month for 15gig on EE on a rolling contract your being ripped off mate!

[Paul C]

I pay £20 a month for 15gig on EE on a rolling contract your being ripped off mate!

 

1. EE doesn't work (well enough) where I often am.

2. I simply don't need 15GB/month. I only need around 1GB/month. So, my cost is £6.83/month. I could have gone for the 12GB/12 month at £70.49 total; £5.87/month.

 

What's the point paying £20 for something that doesn't work, vs £6.83 for something that does?

 

PS I also checked out the cheaper options from EE and O2. For my purposed (light use), Three comes out better. If I used a bit more, EE in theory costs less but because it doesn't work here, isn't an option and O2 comes out better. Vodaphone has no signal here so is useless.

Edited March 5, 2015 by Paul C

[Richard10002]

Paul C - I've sent it back and received a refund, (yesterday).

 

EE could find no record of the sim number or the sim phone number, so it looks like it was a dodgy clone or something,rsther than something resold against their terms.

 

Anyway... It could have been good, but it was too good to be true, and I'm only out the return postage, (£2).

 

Im probably going to see how I get on with 5Gb a month on Giffgaff for £15 a month included with the phonecalls and texts. If I use more than that, I'll get an EE data sim of 15Gb or 25Gb.

[FadeToScarlet]

I pay £20 a month for 15gig on EE on a rolling contract your being ripped off mate!

That sounds pretty much like what we need, was that just from an EE shop, or was it an online deal?