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Regardless of your views on prohibitive pricing plans, 4G is now available for the masses — if you can stump up the cash for a phone and contract. EE had previously promised that people with 4G-ready handsets would be able to pick up cheaper SIM-only tariffs from today, though they have irritatingly failed to materialise.
EE tweeted yesterday that the SIM-only plans won’t be coming today, but rather sometime within “the next 2 weeks”. The delay is said to be a result of their “comprehensive testing process over-running slightly” — though just what that testing is remains unclear. EE’s Twitter account certainly seems to be awash with troubleshooters, though no more than you’d expect from a network operator.
While data limits remain the same for the SIM-only plans, the monthly cost is reduced, and with the stated influx of “a huge amount of customers,” the delay may be a strategic ploy to get eager beavers to opt in for one of their 24 month phone and SIM deals. Let’s cynically hope that is the case, rather than the network worrying about oversubscription, or their comprehensive testing finding anything too serious. [Techcrunch]
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Kinda sucks that they aren’t doing 30 day sim only plans but I can definitely see why not.
Oh and I just found out that I have used 4.5GB on my phone this month on 3G. I was quite shocked as I’ve not been streaming video much lately, it’s all music streaming/downloads from iTunes and app updates.
I’d be screwed with EE.
What kind of data plan do you have. Laugh out loud . That’s quite a bit in one month. Especially on 3G.
giffgaff unlimited for £12 (was £10 until 2 days ago)
Honestly I was expecting in the region of around 2GB, I use my phone pretty heavily on my daily commute (1hr each way) but not THAT much.
Actually just got myself a Three MiFi to use with my iPad on the train, around one week in and I’m up to 700MB (same only used on the train)
Quite a bit? Hardly anything these days, I mean I’d use that streaming the F1 race on my phone.
I would never sign up to anything other than unlimited, no point on even having a Smart Phone with tiny data caps.
I’m increasingly thinking unlimited is not the way to go. I’m on Three in the City of London and, having just run a SpeedTest, got a download speed of 0.13 Mbps. When I run the same test in the same location either early in the morning or once people start heading home, I’ll get nearer 10 Mbps.
Offering unlimited downloads just encourages people to take the piss. That results in lower network speeds for everyone.
My preference would be to be charged a flat rate for Gb at a reasonable rate. £0.50 to £2 per Gb for useage beyond the, say, 5 Gb bundled with the contract. Maybe the network could continue to offer an unlimited tariff, but with their traffic given lower priority when compared to the guys paying per Gb.
I signed up for EE last week on day of launch – (the first day you could) – still not gotten my SIM card – as I was with Orange (Sorry EE) on a £51 plan with unlimited data and a new iPhone5.
I mistakenly thought I would get good service and keep unlimited data – I was wrong.
I think EE is delaying SIM’s to keep 4G network traffic down, so journalist and bloggers can say how quick the network is, before it grinds to a halt in the next couple of weeks –
Trying to tweet to @EE didn’t get much response – vodafone are much better at there twitter customer service
EE’s 4G pricing is a joke! I wouldn’t consider a data plan unless it was unlimited. Last month I used 76GB of data on my phone. Three’s unlimited all you can eat data is great for me- where I live I get 8-11Mbps download speeds. Even at peak times I still manage to pull in 3-5Mbps. I never have trouble streaming football on SkyGo or watching Netflix HD streams.