​to get said deal, you need to put forward the virgin sim only deal for £15 a month which has 20gb...EE will match it. Tried and tested, I however got 15gb data roaming in Europe with free BT sports app for the full 12 months.
also state that virgin is a monthly rolling and use the EE network, so you don't even have to unlock your phone :-D
happy bartering!

How do you people get these deals. They never offer me anything like this. I'm paying £13 for 2gb unlimited calls/txt.

For £15/month getting 20GB data, 4G unlimited, unlimited text and talk. EU roaming on 8GB data, unlimited text and talk so for an extra £1.50 a lot better deal i my view and went about it the same way.. There is a lengthy thread on the matter somewhere. :smiley:

4g essential I assume...

Great deal. Shame I just went past my cooling off period

For £15/month getting 20GB data, 4G unlimited, unlimited text and talk. EU roaming on 8GB data, unlimited text and talk so for an extra £1.50 a lot better deal i my view and went about it the same way.. There is a lengthy thread on the matter somewhere. :smiley:

Three currently offering 12gb for £13 and 30gb for £18. Both with 600mins and unlimited texts. But you can also use abroad at no extra cost. Wifi calling works a treat in my house as no signal in the house. If you have certain phones you also get 4g super voice which is better again for houses with poor signal.

Aha yeah, forgot the BT sports! A quick question - How do I get it/activate it?

How do you people get these deals. They never offer me anything like this. I'm paying £13 for 2gb unlimited calls/txt.

Good deal

I just got 25g of data, 4g unlimited calls and texts and 30 day rolling contract and first 2 months free for £15pcm.
oh and 15g roaming

Called them the other day for sim only, didn't offer anything great

Any anyone works at EE or have some sort of onsite information what criteria is followed when offering these deals??? Been with EE (sim only) pay monthly for almost three years now but never been offered any great deals

I called as my contract and they are really generous at keeping existing customers. I went from paying £15.99 for Unltd min & text and 2GB of 4G data to 7GB data on 4GEE Max and Unltd texts & mins (UK and from EU to UK) plus 6 months Apple Music and BT Sports for 12.99! Not too shabby if I do say so myself.☺

Go to mobile.co.uk to get the best sim deals

Sounds great but I'd never go with EE ever again. Customer service shocking an poor signal

I used the BT family SIM only deal to negotiate the 20gb 4gEEmax deal for 4 of us for £57.50 from the retention team. I was initially getting the same for £82.50 but cancelled.

The EE 'upgrades' team won't always offer you the best deal, they offered me £25 a month for 10gb data, unlimited texts and calls. I said it's not good enough and asked to be put through to the cancellations team for a PAC code, that's when I got offered the £15 a month for 20gb data, unlimited mins and calls, within a minute!! Didn't even have to argue! Massive difference in the two deals, always worth going through to cancellations!

Why has text suddenly become plural? It's Texts!!!!!!!!!

Mobile.Co.UK customer service is good they actually listen to you lol

pay £15 and get the virgin mobile 20GB

2 months ago I called up and asked for my PAC code, with EE don't accept any offers initially rather get the PAC on hand and then the last guys will give you a call back and literally offer a ridiculous offer to keep you. At first they said they can't match my 20gb with unlimited mins and texts for £20 so I requested PAC code, 4 hours later they called and after a 15 min call I was offered 20gb data (12 which you can use in eu) unlimited mins and texts again can be used to and from Europe as well as a years free bt sports for......£11.99 couldn't refuse plus it was their fastest speeds

I already have a sim only deal with EE which isn't as good as the ones mentioned above. If I ring up and ask to change my plan is that a thing they can do? Or is it not worth my effort?

Managed to get the following from EE refuse to loose team on 12 month sim only on there top speed 4gee max plan
25gb uk data
unlim text & mins uk
unlim text & mins EU
up to 15gb data use in EU
Free 6 months BT Sport
Free 6 months Apple Music
£16.50 per month
Maybe a little overkill on data but at £16.50 per month its a bargain.
You must get your pac code and await a phone call from there refuse to loose team, if don't receive call and code expires just do it again.

i've had my pac since 2nd Jan and no ones rang me back yet.... :disappointed:

Waiting in hope!!!

Currently paying £20 a month for the same thing... Only renewed contract 2 months ago :disappointed:

Can confirm this. I've just rang now and got the 4GB 8.99 p/m didn't need to go through to retentions and no arguments.... just tried to fob me headsets and tablets which I declined

All the comments on here are suggesting to call up and get the unlimited everything and 20gb 4G for £15 Yet this deal is still getting more then 300 heat? :man:

It also depends when you talk to them. I rang during the Black Friday weekend deals, thinking they'd have other deals they could offer me. Rep told me I should talk to them after that had expired, because most of the other deals/discounting available to them had been suspended for the promotion.

I tried phoning EE last night to see if they would match the £15 20GB Virgin deal, they said they couldn't offer anything close to that. Best they could do is £25pm..
I'm not with EE currently so can't try the cancellations team, how can i get EE to match?

Its the outbound retention team you require. Often the other team you are put through to are not even aware of best ee offers.
I have got to know one of them and he is a really good guy. Just redone 2 contracts on 20gb ult/ult as previous posts for 15.
You could get the cheapest 30 day contract from ee then cancel, then you can be retained.

So many different opinions/options on this thread.
Can someone tell me the best deal from other providers that i can use to barter with EE?
Got 1 months left on my current deal with them before i can request my PAC without penalty but i am hoping they will offer me a good deal and i wont have to use my pac.
I would like about 5-10gb data.
Minutes 100 (if That)

For extra £1.50 you can get 20gb with data rollover from Virgin

Just rang them.
They wont waive the £13 buyout charge for the remaining 2 months of my contract but they price matched the Virgin 20Gb (£15) deal immediately without me asking twice.
Although this was the first person i spoke to and not the "refuse to lose" team as some members have reported success with.
If they had waived the cancellation charge i would have snapped it up.

best would be call and ask for PAC code and wait they will call you back and if they say why you leaving say you found a better deal £15 for 20GB and they will match it

Please could you let me know where you found 12gb for £13, on the 3 website it shows as 8gb for £13. Thanks

Got the Plusnet £5 offer for 1gb data, 250 mins and 500 texts. All seems to be working for me at the moment but I've heard reports from people receiving their sims in the last couple of days that internet connection has been lost completely. Worried :confused:

I rang 3 network I was paying 9.99 for 700 minutes and 1gb data and unlimited texts , said I was going to talk mobile with their 9.99 sim only , they offered me a unlimited deal with 4gb data for £9.99

I got the 8gb £13.50 deal without a hesitation from retentions.. but only retentions had the authority... mentioned the virgin deal and they were like yeah can match that.. thanks OP... saved £3pm with an extra gb too boot

i am with three with 200 mins, unlimited data/texts +2000 3to3 mins and 30gb hotspot for £13per month in 1month rolling contract. just speak to the complaints department who have more power to help than Timothy from India.

Can you tether on EE or this sim ?

​Ive never spoken to EE re a cancellations so cant comment but its how you can negotiate but a
going by some of the replies you dont have to do much to get offered a better price.

Moved 3 sims from Virgin to Plusnet, 3 sims on the £7.50 2gb data 1,000 min, Unlim. texts & 4g - very happy as virgin wouldnt budge on wanting to charge more for 4 g and we all had 1gb data at most.

I just spoke to EE and they were adamant that the 20gb for £15 just didn't exist. They said I should ask for proof. I'm stumped.

Ring them, say your looking to move provider and it's either them or Virgin mobile for £xx and that you would prefer them and give them some speal, etc. See what they say....

Ring again.
I think it's only if you ask for your PAC

I did ask for my PAC....

Why is this so hot. Wait for the 32gb 14.50 to come along this is shire cold from me

I went for the 12GB sim with EE for £16.xx (second sim) and I called today to cancel the order.

The lady asked for the reason and I told her about the Virgin Mobile deal. I expected to be offered a matching deal but the lady was okay for me to cancel the order.

Do you mean 500 texts ?

The 13 quid cancellation charge equates to the deal being 16 quid a month so surely it's still worth snapping up ?

Yes, sorry.

Lol not Joe Bloggs, why Timothy?

No worries just thought for a minute you were getting better deal than me lol :smiley:

I'm with Three now, is that 12gb offer an upgrade or for new customers ?

"Your first annual RPI increase will take place in March 2017."

This put be me off... :disappointed:

Been with EE since the days of Freeserve, Wanadoo etc who they bought out of business and pay 13.00 for 2GB of data and 1GB of that 2GB was their retention team's best offer to keep me on as a customer. Original deal was 1GB data for 13.00 !! I get great speeds on 4GEE from them, around the 100Mb/s upload and download at times but with only 2GB to last a month I don't do much of that. Contract ends in March. Don't care if they offer me 20GB for free, they mugged me last time. I'll tell them to shove whatever sweetener they dangle in front of me to stay. I'm happy for all you guys getting 4GB and 8GB for the price I pay for 2GB but there's too many good deals elsewhere just now to warrant staying with them whatever they offer. They shafted me last year. They lose me this one.

I'm glad that networks are finally giving a little more on the data, as these phones potentially use so much data on YouTube, Spotify etc.

just rang on got the 8gb deal for £13.49. I asked about the 4gb deal for £8 99 but was told that they wasn't aware of such a deal.

anyway. I'm happy as I was previously on 1gb for £12.88 a month since only. heat added

I got the 4gb one when iPhone 7 came out decided on sim only and buy the phone

​i got the EE £8.99 4gb deal last month it wasn't offered I just said that I was leaving to go to 3 as this was there promotional deal at the time and they price matched without any haggling.

was really surprised how easy it was.

Not been a customer of theirs lately. But they are the worst company (ok, joint worst along with STA travel) I have ever dealt with. The customer service was just abysmal.

I am leaving 3 as soon as I can and going over to EE or Virgin. Wifi is good when you want to make a call but does not work for incoming calls. Hate it that I loose phone signal in my house, battery then goes flat searching for a signal.

Have details of what other companies are offering and threaten to leave and get PAC number. Works for me every time.

phoned EE to get my pac code to switch to the quoted deal but they cs agent immediately matched it. Staying with EE for another year

Thank u I just got up graded to £15 20GB and 12 BT SPORTS :smiley:

Great deal, but what network did you get t on? EE?

12 months ? sorry this is freezing cold, there are 30 days sims out there that give way more. I wont vote cold though.

Example:

Virgin 5000/unlimited/20GB £15 http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/20-gb-4g-sim-only-virgin-mobile-5000-min-unltmd-txt-15-a-month-30-day-contract-for-2588603


Unless you are transferring huge loads of data, ie a business where BT exchange has no Fibre then EE 4G Max with speeds upto 60 MBPS, or 90 in London - which beggers belief when EE told Ofcom rural not urban, then Virgin/EE basic plans do the job most places

Not sure why this is hot, given that the 20gb deal (mentioned previously on this thread) for £15 got voted freezing cold. That thread would indicate the 20gb deal is still active. I got it myself. Just keep trying various CS people.. I had to be put through to a 'manager' to authorise it.

Not only for an extra £1.50 do you get loads more data but you're also on the Max plan, which gives the inclusive EU roaming etc, plus BT sport for the life of the contract + 6months free Apple Music.

Ice cold! Sorry OP. I'd see if you can get them to 'upgrade' you again to the 20gb plan!

How?? And what network?

My mistake was upgrading with upgrades, not retentions, currently on 20 quid for unltd mins/text, 10GB and BT Sport, meh

Does the price quote in this deal including VAT?

I am in my last month - called them and asked for the PAC code - told them to match the virgin deal or i am leaving. They refused to match the deal or give me anything close to it. So took my pac code and now bought a sim from Three - £11 for 8gb + £50 quidco if it tracks. Bye bye to ee from me.

I got 20gb with ability to use 15gb in Europe unlimited mins/texts for £15 as an EE retention deal

I gonna vote hot, I am on £13 unlimited texts mins and 8gb with 3 (no contract and with feel at home and tethering) I prefer 3 as network better in my area but I am sure for anyone who gets better ee than 3 then this is a deal.

Loose is a completely different word to lose.

I pay £13 a month with three for 30gb data, 600 mins and unl texts, plus call abroad free etc.

As someone has already mentioned, this is cold. BT and EE have spent so much pretending they have a good network that deep down they can't even price their services accordingly.

It takes a customer to really, really, want to cancel for them to consider reducing their prices? Is that how they think business works?

I would have moved to them had they offered a decent deal. Alas they couldn't get anywhere near Three's pricing.

Kevin Bacon is expensive, and you are paying for him.

That's insanely hot

I'm out of my sim only deal with EE so gave them a call and quoted this HotUKDeals post and I got the same deal. It's not the 4GEE apparently but just 4G?? Won't notice anything different but got the 4gb, 1000 mins and unltd texts for £8.99 p/m which is half the price I was paying before with more data! Retentions said they don't usually give this out but he spoke with the manager who was happy to honour it. It's a 12 month contract and can upgrade anytime.

Come on then, let's hear about them....

i missed a call but i'm not worried as i've got a BT contract already in place. EE's loss.

When upgrading EE it is useful to look at their website promotions but also the regular plans which are not as easy to see on the website

http://ee.co.uk/content/dam/ee-help/Help-PDFs/Pay%20Monthly%2024%20month%20Price%20Plans%20Guide%20on%20or%20after%2017%20%20August%202016.pdf


Personally EE are crap in large parts of Fife, Tayside and the Highlands in my experience with many handsets - worse than Orange ever was, probably because they shut down loads of Orange base stations and Orange always was better than One2One/T-Mobile for coverage but better speeds on the latter - which is no good where people know have very poor or no signal where they once did lol.


In the Highlands, Vodafone & o2 still seem to be more dog, which wont change with Cornerstone as I doubt they will decommission like Orange/T-Mobile merger did by the thousands.

Virgin £15 for 5000/unlimited/20GB more than double the data for the price of a mass processed sandwich a month, even the 'poorest' can forgo a takeaway sandwich and take a packed lunch one day a month with planning.

I also attempted to get EE to price match the virgin deal. They gave me the pac code, and told me good luck and we can't match it!! Ahh well, to Virgin we go!

Walk into any three store and get 30gb 600mins unlimited texts for £18 per month..

Strange how different people are getting different responses to price matching of Virgin deal.
Like I stated earlier, they agreed to price match immediately without me asking twice.
I said I'd call back, which I did and said I wouldn't use that much data so I would be paying for data I wouldn't use.
The cs rep then offered me 4gb for £8, I asked for PAC to see if the "refuse to lose" could do better but she said both offers are open to me if I change my mind before using PAC.
They couldn't do better than that.
I'll wait and see if they ring me... If not I'll let the contract run and try again in a month because I still have some time in my contract remaining.

Thats not too shabby if it includes EU data.
If you have iphone,
Remember:

Text MUSIC to 150
We'll text you step-by-step instructions
Enjoy six free months of Apple Music
£9.99 a month afterwards or cancel any time

yeah it did, not planning on a holiday though... happy with that for tenner, unlimited mins is excellent

Thank you op for this post! I rang EE and I got the 20gb for £15 deal really happy with it :smiley:

Always handy to have decent travel data though wifi can be limited, even paid for! is the full 5GB EU data ?

Tenner is very decent, although 12 months, more so if a decent EU data allowance even on 12m its a absolute steal!

​lols its just sometimes when you phone them you clearly know they are in a call centre in india and with their heavy indian accent they go "hallo my nem is Charlie haw can i halp yoo toodey." :laughing:

thats much better than when they used to be ACTUAL 3 employees with a welcome to the forest, a singular one, the singular wood in their head - used to make me smile every time they answered lol I always felt like saying: this is Three UK care yeah not Tre Italy ?

:smile:

I never did though, much better a laugh in my head than be rude.

​Make sure you are looking at the Three Advanced and not just the essential deals

Just to confirm... use the plusnet deals as bait.. tried with virgin, talkmobile etc no luck.. they took the plusnet deal straight away!!

Existing customer term of current contract finished. Called 150 was offered £19.99/m for 12 months for 12gb/unltd/unltd with full use of allowance in europe.
Then offered 8GB for £13.50, but with only 500mb in europe.
Said it didn't really compare, and he managed to find a better offer, £15 for 20gb/unltd/unltd with 15gb usable in europe, 12 months. Will take that, very happy.

what are the plusnet and virgin deals i need to mention? (just about to try my luck!)

I don't need as much as 8GB data so I've got the unlimited mins and text 4GB 4GEE Max EU calls and 12 months BT sport for £7.99. I quoted a deal I found on mobilephonesdirect with 3 which is u/ltd calls, texts, 4GB 12 month for £8. http://www.mobilephonesdirect.co.uk/sim-only/micro You can also get £10.05 cashback via Quidco making it £7.16 a month but I couldn't get EE down lower than £7.99. Still worked out better for me to stick with EE as I don't have to give 30 days notice to switch tarrifs. EE also said the plan was discounted from £22.99 and that the discount doesn't expire so it continues to roll on at £7.99 after 12 months.

Managed to get the 13.50 deal with 8gb data. First guy didnt see the deal on his screen, he put me through to another guy who matched it straight away. Should also note that you can use the allowances within the EU at no extra cost.

Thanks OP

Should have got the unlimited mins, unlimited text, 20 Gb deal posted on here today!
Yes, it's £1.50 a month more, £18 a year... but 20GB a month! .......

I can't thank you enough for this, got the same deal when I mentioned price match with Virgin.. massive upgrade from lousy 2 GB, 2000 min plan.

Fun fact, the guy told me that they cannot mention this offer to customers as part of retention unless caller tells them they have seen this offer elsewhere and asks for match.

Hi may i ask how you exactly got that one? Thanks

I quoted the deal in the OP, he said I can do that.....so you got them....then I asked them to just drop the data down :smiley:

I was in my 14 day trial sim only. they matched virgin. from 12g to 20gig. 12g abroad. unlimited calls and texts £15. superb thanks

I went for:

12M SIM Max Plan 4GB £22.99 PLAN

Deal: £7.99pm (£15 discount pm)
Unlimited Minutes
Unlimited Texts
4GB of 4G++ Data

All calls & data can be used in Europe
BT Sports app & suscription

I called 150 and selected option to upgrade or leave. I did not need to ask for PACK code but this was a Retentions team member. I asked if they can match the offer I had seen for unlimited minutes and texts and 4GB Data for £8. She checked with her manager and confirmed that they could. She said that this would include only 0.5 GB of data in Europe. She said that is only available on the Max Plan and went back to check with her manager and came back to confirm that they could indeed offer it to me. :smiley:

This now also included BT Sports as well as full use of allowance in Europe.

I was not asked for any details of the offer I had asked to match. The offer I had was actually £10pm but with £24 Cashback worked out to £8pm (http://www.mobilephonesdirect.co.uk/shopping-basket?/cache/basket/add/sim_only/pay-monthly-three-micro/three-4g-10-unlimited-e-12-4gb/free-delivery/cashback-by-redemption/index.html/add/sim_only/pay-monthly-three-micro/three-4g-10-unlimited-e-12-4gb/free-delivery/cashback-by-redemption)

She mentioned 50p charge for calling 084/085 numbers and I asked her to maintain the ADD-ON I always have:

300 min of 084/085 numbers for £3 pm

Worth the extra £3pm if you need to call such number every now and then and also can be used to make international calls via 084/087 access numbers.

I was hoping that the discounted main plan would roll on after 12 months but I was told that I would need to ring in and see what upgrade options were available at that time.

I was also told that I was entitled to an offer on a second line and that they could offer the exact same deal.

I think if one has Wifi at home and work, 4GB of data is plenty. Good luck with your efforts.

Damn lucky you got a great deal there, I called them yesterday and all I got from Retention was
2GB Data, Unlimited Calls & Text for £10 a month :/

They would match the plusnet deal, but only on a 12 month contract vs. 4Gb/unlimited/unlimited on 3 day. No 8.99 here. So I decided to go with Plusnet - 7.50 deal. it's good enough for me.

Tried retentions again and they wouldn't offer me the 20gb for £15. Will try again tonight

Just did the 150, spoke to cancellations to ask for PAC code, spoke to 3 different people, not one tried to get me to stay, told the last person what I would be getting from Virgin's deal, they said, yeah great deal, made no attempt to counter or match it, so took my PAC and have swapped. Turns out Virgin use EE network to piggyback off anyways, so big discount and same coverage as before, not sure if I've received good service or not??? either way am now paying less for more :-)

pointless to share retention deals, as it's not the same for everyone.

It "is" a deal even if it helps a small proportion. Otherwise, all Android users will complain about Apple deals and vice-versa.

after 1 day I requested my PAC code I got a phone call from ee and was offered unlimited calls and text 13gb data. 500mb eu roaming and unlimited EU calls,text free call to 0800 for £12.99 seemed like a decent deal so I jumped on. I was had to mention I was joining virgin £12 rolling traffif

call this number - 01844 3986 10
they always offer good deals