Three UK (3) - "Feel at Home"

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Taken from the Three UK website -

About Feel At Home.
Feel At Home is our new service that lets you use your UK allowances to call or text the UK and use data in selected countries abroad. This applies to everyone on our network, whatever type of plan or tariff you have.

You shouldn’t need to do anything to benefit from Feel At Home – it should all work automatically as soon as you arrive.

Where Feel At Home applies.
You can currently enjoy Feel At Home in the following countries:

•Australia
•Austria
•Denmark
•Hong Kong
•Italy
•Republic of Ireland
•Sweden.
We are working hard to add more countries to this list and will let you know as soon as we do.

What Feel At Home covers.
Feel At Home means that you can use your UK allowances to:

•call the UK
•text the UK
•use data on your phone.

If you have Three-to-Three minutes, you’ll also be able to use these to call someone else on Three either in the UK or in the same Feel At Home country as you.

If you run out of your allowances.
If you go over your allowances, you’ll be charged at roaming rates that are lower than normal. These rates are:


•20p per minute to make calls
•7p per text
•10p per MB.

It’s always free to receive calls in a Feel At Home country. Find out about other roaming rates in the country you're visiting.

If you run out of your allowances and you don’t want to be charged roaming rates, you can now use My3 on your phone in Feel At Home countries to buy normal UK Add-ons. Just visit mobile.three.co.uk/my3 on your phone, or call us free on +44782333330.

If you have a credit limit or zero spending cap, this will still apply while you're in a Feel At Home country.

Limitations on Feel At Home.
There are some limitations on Feel At Home.

•You can’t use your phone to tether while you’re abroad.
•As in any non-UK country, you can’t call personal numbers (070), premium rate numbers beginning 09 and directory services numbers beginning 118. However, calls to numbers beginning 08 will be included in your standard allowances, and then charged at 20p per minute if you go over your allowances.
•It’s designed for trips away rather than living abroad, so if you take advantage of Feel At Home but don’t use your phone in the UK at all for three months in a 12 month period, you won’t be able to use your phone abroad anymore.
•You’ll be able to stream and connect to VPNs while in a Feel At Home country but both of these will be slower than they are in the UK.
•If you use more than 25GB of data, 5000 texts or 3000 minutes per month in any two months within a year, you may be blocked from using these services.
•You won’t be able to change your My3 PIN when you're in a Feel At Home country.
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For someone who is on Three and who will be going to one of the chosen 7 countries at Christmas time, I think this is an excellent initiative, especially knowing that I can web browse, use social media, txt and call people safe in the knowledge that I will just be using the allowances I have within my contract and I won't be incurring horrific roaming charges for doing so, nor will I have to purchase extortionately priced "data bundles" to allow communication back home.

I can see this really taking off and perhaps other networks following suit, but at a (premium) charge.

Anyone else going to be able to take advantage of this generous offer?
 
A colleague is on three he lives in hayfield.No signal for 5 days.When he rang three to complain,he was told that there were people even worse off than him!
They can offer anything they like,its worthless if you can't use it.
Everyone I know who is with 3 moans about them.
 
3 are doing a 3p per min pay as you go SIM which is great for low users like me.

It's an old fashioned style PAYG with no expiry and no monthly top up required.

That's much better than the 8p an minute I pay Tesco at the moment.

Seems too good to be true.

But I can't seem to find a catch.
 
I'm with 3 never had a problem with them didn't know this was on offer though why haven't they sent a email or text.

I was away last week and used an App from BT to make calls home via Wi-Fi for the same cost as it would be if I was ringing on my land line. Was really good as the mrs had a bit of a family crisis while we were away and was on the phone quite a bit must have saved me a fortune.
 
urmston said:
3 are doing a 3p per min pay as you go SIM which is great for low users like me.

It's an old fashioned style PAYG with no expiry and no monthly top up required.

That's much better than the 8p an minute I pay Tesco at the moment.

Seems too good to be true.

But I can't seem to find a catch.
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the catch is getting a signal, I was with them for two months too long a while back , waste of time ,money and energy ringing them to complain speaking to Jams , or Peetur , or hanaball . I will just check ur signal oh there is nothing wrong ,but you can update to a bbeeter premiuum service for a small charge . Foot in the door tactics . More fool me
 
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or you could just pay £15 and get unlimited landline calls and data.

they use Tmobile / Orange network too
 
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