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When you write a post, your username is displayed right above what you write. There's really no need to type it out.

There's a couple of people who do that on this site. It's so odd.

I am odd :stuck_out_tongue:

EliTom

Yes but if are on HKUD, you would never be stupid enough to stay with someone if they were more expensive than the competitors. Seems very hot to me!

I am not sure what I need to do. Can you explain the free 150 Minute preference? Where do I need to set that?

Login to payg to set you prefs Your text here

Yes but we are talking about companies please keep your personal life to yourself

In have the sim card for payg on this .How do you get the bonus preference of 150 voice mins and 4gb 4g data?

For those considering this, I've been using for a month on the 4gb £15 bundle, in Belgium, Germany and France. Its way better than Three feel at home - fast enough to watch the football on ToView (about 500mb a match). The ip address is in the uk so all of the catchup stuff will work also). Before topping up make sure your fee bonus preference is set to 150 voice mins - which added to the "£30 credit bonus" gives a total of 270 minutes of talk plus the 4gb data all for £15.
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You kinda were trolling as the other member rightly pointed out, this is a discussion about deals. Not politics. I was pointing out its expensive out there for data roaming, which it is. I'm sure many UK roamers and holiday makers would like cheaper rates out there. On the plus side Vodafone RED has Turkey in 'Europe 2' now so if you are looking to holiday out there thats a good operator for it!

Finally live :sunglasses:

Anyone know if I could get a PAYG SIM, do a £20.00 top-up to give me 8GIG of Data by way of a data bundle and then use this in a Mifi unit for tethering to abroad in Portugal?? If not anyone know of a better idea for using data in Portugal?? Thanks

Three with 19 Countries compare to Tesco mobile with 31 Countries, sorry but my money go to Tesco Mobile. Good bye!

Me too, got a sim ready for my iPad. Used to get a MEO PAYG simcard

How long will my free credit last for?
You can get free credit once a month and your free credit lasts for a month, until your next monthly anniversary date. For example, if you get your first free credit on 5 January, you've got until midnight on the 4 February to use it

These rates are nothing special - seeing an EU cap on raoming charges became effective on 30th Aprip http://www.itv.com/news/2016-04-30/mobile-roaming-charges-in-the-eu-slashed-ahead-of-ban/

'operators will only be able to charge a small additional amount to domestic prices of up to 0.05 euro (3p) per minute of call made, 0.02 euro (1p) per SMS sent, and 0.05 euro (3p) per MB of data, excluding VAT.'

As mentioned above, this deal is horrible, the x3 credit is a scam. compare tariffs below

http://www.three.co.uk/Support/pay_as_you_go/Phone_tariffs

http://www.tescomobile.com/help-and-support/1082-pay-as-you-go/1091-tariffs/pay-as-you-go-tariff

Was almost considering getting this SIM simply because it's free to receive a call whilst abroad on this Tesco SIM for the duration of the promotion... so could same some money by getting people to call me!

But now Three have made receiving a call free in the majority of EU destinations, except of course Three are miles cheaper than Tesco.

Like others have said, all mobile networks have been ordered to reduce their roaming charges, so this Tesco deal is not as good as it may first seem.

Just a note that this year the cap is on the additional charges above domestic rates - in previous years they specified the the maximum charge.

I think you will find all operators are abolishing all roaming charges from the 15th of June 2017 as this is a European Directive negotiated by the EU Parliament. Operators have been forced to reduce maximum roaming charges as from 30th April 2016 to €0.05/min and €0.05/Mb + VAT (75% down compared to current charges).

That is of course, providing we stay in the EU!

So this is not really a Tesco freebie at all, but all operators having to comply with EU free market regulation. Freedom to the people, another advantage of staying in the EU.

A troll doesn't quote facts, sorry mate

Also presumably like Three's Feel at Home, the data speeds whilst roaming are only 3G at best?

I'm not stalking you. Just correcting you...

Why can't you enjoy your holiday and catch up on the news over breakfast, read a book on kindle on the beach, chat to friends on FB, post amusing holiday videos to Youtube, find a good restaurant on Tripadvisor, translate the menu on Google Translate and stream music from Spotify when you get back to the hotel?

Jeez! Stop stalking me and get over it...

Indeed - a poor deal no better than any other Mickey Mouse "free roaming" deal

Says the person who has posted only two deals ever, both with negative heat! Well done, Arfur!

cheers!

shame no jersey guernsey or i love man?

Thanks op

Tescos are masters of hiding prices behind layers of wonderful offers

£20 will give you £40 bonus credit - which cannot be spent on bundles and expires after a month
So your valuable £40 bonus at standard rates will give you a 160 minutes of calls or 400mb data ~ roughly equivalent to a £5 bundle.
So not really a triple bonus, and more like a 25% bonus. Smoke and mirrors.

What's interesting is that today Tesco charge 16p for out of bundle calls from the EU to the UK - yet this "deal" actually increases the charge to 25p - a 40% hike.
Can't for the life of me figure out why they charge 4p for roaming calls to the other 31 countries.

After saying that, the deal is pretty good for a one off short trip to places not covered by Three. For longer trips, the fact that you can only use for a month and you need to activate the sim before you go abroad would make Three a better option

Brilliant im off to Crete on May 21st :sunglasses:

People won't take you seriously.

Or else?

Then please don't ask the question.

I'm off to Spain and my wife is in France at the same time. She's got an o2 contract mobile package. I'm thinking of getting a payg to use to ring her from Spain. What's the best way to do this... Ty

Sorry, It is unintentionally, do not know why it appears n=on the quotation
it has been removed now in the original posting ..

http://www.tescomobile.com/help-and-support/1082-pay-as-you-go/1091-tariffs/pay-as-you-go-triple-credit[]

pantaiema Can you explain why you are including me in this ? - I only quoted a link about what to expect for triple credit !! -

Do you always go to the same place when you are on Holiday ? Or are you taking all inclusive tour for your family holiday abroad ? Do you just use your smart phone for calling ? If so, you should not comment on other people need, as you do not know what other people need.

People go abroad not only for Holiday, business trip, visiting friends, Relatives, etc. Also many people travel abroad solo not with family. What about Google map, Find the place of interest, opening hour of services while you are on the move, etc Walking navigation, find the restaurants, Transport planner (instead of using Taxi).

You want to arrange for dinner, dating with the someone you just met on the street ??

Good spot OP

I don't know why people get excited about these deals.

When I go on holiday I like being uncontactable and not being able to use my phone. I make a point of leaving my people indoors as I'd much rather play with my kids than sit on my phone around a pool or on a beach.

It's amazing how many people you see these days clearly updating Facebook bragging about how wonderful their holiday.

I get people may use them as sat navs too but I'm sure those people are too tempted to check their phone every now and then. Just leave it in your hotel or where ever you're staying and enjoy your holiday!

Super hot! Perfect for travelling to countries not yet included in three's Feel at Home.

Some people go abroad not just for a holiday, but for personal business reasons...

Really, that's a bit mean :laughing:

Anyway, not everyone uses FB or sits on their phone all day when on holiday (or not).

Maps, directions, local opening times, emergency, weather to name but a few of the other benefits of this modern technology. If all this and more can be done at a lower cost, then what's not to like!

Cheers! will look at that later.

Don't forget this can be combined with the 10% discount for auto top up :smiley:

Does anyone how many typical minutes, data, text, we will get for this £45 ??

thanks

Going away to greese on 14th may shame its not when i'm going away

RE - The TETHERING QUESTION !!!
Quick google gave me this - On Tesco Mobile, you can tether at no extra cost on all tariffs that have an inclusive data allowance. From the Tesco Mobile help pages: If your tariff has a data allowance included, you can use your device as a personal hotspot at no extra cost.16 Feb 2016

Thinking of getting a SIM for using on holidays just for data and putting it on one phone for the whole family to use 8GB for £20

If you go to there or to Spain often enough I have taken out an Amena 4G at home deal which runs under Orange and is €29,95 a month with a 40GB cap. You could even trial it for 14 days with a money back guarantee.

http://www.tescomobile.com/help-and-support/1082-pay-as-you-go/1092-bundles/pay-as-you-go-data-bundles

Regarding that, would I be able to top up £20, get £60 credit. Then spend £40 on two lots of 8gb?

Cheers

Sorry, off to Majorca.

definitely worth to buy going for holiday, thx

I'm going on holiday in July and would happily pay £30-£40 for say 20GB of 4G (min 7-10Mbits/sec) its for streaming video (probably TV from back home) and movies /music etc. Does anyone know of a reliable provider that a will not only offer it but also meet by speed requirements? Cheers

Darn!! back from Spain on the 22nd of May!!!!!

About bloody time they did this. I swear even with the EU law they still had some mental prices in place, to the point I never dared using it.

There's a few cheaper, albeit after cashback

Don't worry guys, Brexit will soon fix this. :smiley:

I was on The One Plan @ £14.78. They kicked me off earlier this month and I accepted unlimited everything for £20 a month (12gb personal hotspot). I'd like to see a current, unlimited 4G plan cheaper than this.

I was obviously being sarcastic.

Thanks it is becoming moreclear now. It is only free roaming when three has a feel at home deal like in these countries.
http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home

For people who travel to these coutries frewuetnly, not just during summer, it is defenitely the three deal is a better deal, no brainer ...

But unfortunately, I travel to Germany more often than to any other EU countries so can not take the benefit of this 3 deal.

Here's the details of the EU charge caps that have been mentioned a few times in this post: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/roaming-tariffs

Says who?

Yes but if are on HKUD, you would never be stupid enough to stay with someone if they were more expensive than the competitors. Seems very hot to me!

Ever thought he commented that to avoid doing so, because he knows people here will have the answers?

That's what the comments section is for.

Look mum, I found a troll!

Thanks, didn't know that. I'll try it next time.

I think it was this deal:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/new-3-payg-4g-trio-data-sim-pack-preloaded-with-12gb-data-24-50-ebay-mymemory-uk-2425901

It's still around £25 on ebay from 'my memory'. 12GB preloaded data, valid for a full 12 months, not just the summer.


edit

here's the current deal:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/3-payg-4g-trio-data-sim-pack-preloaded-with-12gb-data-24-99-ebay-memory-2435725

Voted hot for what it is, but I generally never vote hot on Tesco Mobile deals as they are so expensive. Triple credit is a con and fools so many people out there, when in reality Three's call charges on PAYG are much cheaper.

dazzapat. If you have any link either on HUKD or Three itself it will be very usefull. Especailly as you are in doubt yourself, so other people could help to check it ....
If it is true it is 12 months to use the whole 12GB for just £20 and could be used in the EU without roaming, it is definitely a better deal, no brainer. If this deal exists it must have got picked by HUKDer ....

I know EE deal quite the same deal with what you said exist in this HUKD, but just for one month ...,.

Anyone else has heard about this deal could share the link ??

If it's PAYG, then you have 12 months to use the whole 12GB I believe.

Cant see why anyone would pick this over the three deal unless you have a tesco contract,payg three has 12gb bundle for £20

I had my fingers and toes crossed for this to include Turkey when clicking on it. Data roaming out there is a joke! Decent VPN and wifi hotspot jumping it is.

Tunnelbear is a good choice.

Which vpn was you using as im off to canarys this year and need a reliable connection

Just do what I do. Leave your phones at home. Has life got to the point where we can't survive without facetwitterwhatsup for a week or 2!

thanks op, taking to the family to Bulgaria and will be perfect for the teenagers and there phones.

I think I'm missing something on this deal... certainly for calls from abroad back to the UK I don't see how this Tesco PAYG SIM would save much money. So I understand you pay the same pence per minute as you would in the UK, but according to the Tesco website that is an astronomical 25p/min. So the only way to get cheaper call rates would be to buy the £5 calling bundle which gives 150 mins (works out at 3p/min).

But from next month call charges in the EU from most operators will drop to 4.4p/min anyway (LIFE mobile have already dropped their prices - others such as EE are following soon). So not much of a saving to be gained from Tesco, plus it's a minimum £10 top-up.

So probably this is a good deal for some, especially for the data bundle - but personally I don't see what all the fuss is about. For someone only wanting to make a few short calls home from abroad or send a few texts then there is no benefit of this SIM that I can see. Obviously it's great for existing Tesco contract customers, but I won't be rushing out to get a Tesco PAYG SIM for this.

200MB free from 3

100MB is poor for average, but I get for some it will do.... but great for email/very light internet & satnav mobile for the car in Europe.

You can't use the free credit on bundles or abroad

Try VPN next time. They don't throttle feel at home VPN traffic yet. Couple of months ago in Canary islands managed to get 4mbps via VPN, while without it was merely 20kbps.

100% agree mate, almost unusable at times.

It already is for most pay & go tariffs!

Oh wow, thanks, I'll let my niece know as she is going to Greece with the school, she asked me about this earlier today.

You are right but this is available all year round. Just wanted to draw it to people's attention. It's also 1 euro for 100MB so better for short trips.

Thank you,brilliant find.:smiley:

lots of companies looking to get your business just before 30th April when prices drop considerably for roaming whatever contract you are on.
nb. next year roaming charges will be completely wiped out.

Heat from me, heading to Spain in June and a cruise in July visiting a few countries all listed so I'm well chuffed.

You can't on this either!!

This is an excellent find. I'm currently with Three but the Feel at Home package doesn't include Portugal. I will swap out my sim for a Tesco PAYG for the duration of my holiday. It was save the hassle of locating a local sim.

i was told this would happen over a month ago and posted it on here, heard nothing so tweeted martin at money saving expert and tagged tesco mobile in it, it was announced shortly after ( OBVIOUSLY a coincidence ) what is strange is i was not told by the 3 different people at Tesco that this offer was for a limited period, and wonder now will it be extended or force the other companies to follow suit

Three at Home is dire if you want to do anything that requires bandwidth (videos, FaceTime, large images, etc) as they artificially limit the speed of data overseas. I wonder if Tesco will be doing the same.

Just what I need for Euro 2016 :smiley:

Hot.....never looked back after leaving gift gaff, data with them was a nightmare, slow as a fortnight in Barlinnie, this is a huge bonus for me...:-)

Great offer! I hope Tesco Mobile Ireland does the same soon!

how do you know? I am voting to stay!

Typical - going on holiday on the 11th September...

Fantastic as my family are all on Tesco. Do you have to do anything to activate it??

Will not happen, UK is leaving the EU so why it should keep any benefit? the roaming charges scrap is a EU law... you know thos eone coming from Brussel...

Rather pay £20 for 8GB than €20 for 1/4 of that.

I have this sim for travelling it is cheaper than this deal (on a payg basis) and available all year around in the same countries.

http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Euro1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tarjeta-SIM-Micro-Nano-de-Prepago-ORANGE-MUNDO-5-de-Saldo-y-4G-GO-EUROPA-/172133065093?hash=item2813ee2185:g:vWUAAOSwKtlWlvzw

It also improves your Spanish :-)

PAYG

Using data Your UK data rate (if you’ve got a bundle or free credit, it’ll come out of this)


Triple credit, top up £20 get £60, buy 8GB for £20 (text: 8GB to 28948) £40 to spend on calls, text and MMS EU wide.



BARGAIN!

Hodor

Can you spend the £45 on PSN?

sorry for being daft, but how long would the triple value of the top say for - 45 when topping up with 15 pounds? in e another words, what's the expiry date on this offer?

Only if we stay in the EU.

Covers Cyprus too, which Three does not.

For people considering using a PAYG for the summer, you would need to buy a bundle (which you can't do on their triple credit plan) as data on the standard tariff is 10p/MB or £100 per GB! If you topup £15 that would allow you to buy a 4GB data bundle but you would need to spend another £10 to buy a call/text bundle.

Telefonica must have that on o2 system...it co owns Tesco Mobile.


Now when will o2 (if) launch it

Vodafone will wipe out any potential arbitrage opps

I also just noticed this. So its OK for short breaks but if you relocate it won't be any good past the first month.

Our fair use policy (see below) means you can use your UK data, minutes and text allowance, free credit or bundles in Home From Home countries for up to 28 days from 23 May until 3 September 2016 (23:59 BST). That’s because Home From Home is aimed at our customers on holidays or short breaks.

Here in Spain Vodafone have just scrapped all roaming charges within the EU & US for all contract customers. That means I won't have to bother buying a giff gaff SIM when I'm in the UK on holiday in a fortnight :smiley:

It's from May 23rd - which is very annoying as I am in Spain next week...

So voted cold: no better than any other Mickey Mouse "free roaming" deal. How can we have gone backwards with the cost of data being cheaper to being able not to tether? I used to be able to have worldwide, unlimited data, that could be tethered on T-Mobile for £15/mth.

And it ain't true - NO TETHERING!

where is that exactly? I can't find it myself..

Top up £15, it gets tripled to £45 then can you use it to top up PSN Wallet?

If that is true, a fantastic deal...

going to slovakia in a weeks time.. best deal i could find was with o2 on a payg sim of £1.99 a day for 500mb :-/ so so close. lol

three feel at home doesnt cover slovakia unfortunately.

I got this text from giffgaff recently:
Great news. If you've got a goodybag, from 28th April the cost of using your phone in the EU is coming down. Calls will be 4p/min to make & 0.5p to receive, texts 1.5p to send & 0p to receive, and data just 4p/mb.
For full details, check out giff.ly/EU_Update.

Thetering in roaming included??

Not Greece for some reason...

Fantastic :sunglasses:

So on 4th September it's back to rip-off prices, after having acquired a load of new customers who by then can't be bothered to move. Smart move Tesco.

Bulgaria seems very popular, need to try it out.

Couldn't you just order a free pay and go sim, top up with X amount for example £5 then apply a data bundle for example 500mb for £5 then use that for the duration of your holiday?

http://www.tescomobile.com/help-and-support/1082-pay-as-you-go/1092-bundles/pay-as-you-go-data-bundles

So, top up £15, get another £30 free credit (which can't be used abroad)

Data is 10p per MB! That's expensive! :confused:
150MB and you've kissed goodbye to your £15 :disappointed:

Off to bulgaria from 20th to 27th so this will do for some of my holiday.

Just spoke to some one at teach and you can only use he £15 aboard the extra that they give u you can't use over seas

I was using my Three PAYG all in one 20 in New York just like I was at home, such a useful feature!!

Heat added but no good for me travelling to the Isle of Man.:disappointed:

So am I.

Qwerta369.

I thought no roaming charges from 30th JUNE 2017??

Have some heat, been using Tesco mobile for a while and going to Cyprus for a month during the summer, Three don't cover Cyprus so this is excellent for me.:smile:

That's impressive number of countries. Thanks OP.

New EU regulation come into force 1st May so you will find most carriers will reduce their prices massivly.

Got a txt from ee today , We’ll be introducing new Standard rates for calls and texts in our Europe Zone from 30th April and even better data options too. It’ll be 4.4p per minute to make calls and 1.8p per text and it’ll be £3 for 75MB of data (all inc. VAT).

I am odd :stuck_out_tongue:

EliTom

When you write a post, your username is displayed right above what you write. There's really no need to type it out.

There's a couple of people who do that on this site. It's so odd.

Good option for a dual sim phone. Use and dump. No need to change your main number.

Hot hot hot!

Any idea if it includes tethering?

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what a shame. I'm visiting spain/greece in september and this would have been perfect.

It's a start Have some HEAT .............