I drive all around the UK and generally find the coverage excellent.

Topcashback are offering £45 on this £9pm contract and Mobilephonesdirect has it at £6pm via redemption (and there is £10 Topcashback, too).

I use 3 and signal is fantastic for me other than in my house, people know I'm home when they can't contact me by my mobile.

Dunno, Do they?
Three's at home abroad doesnt just work for EU, Hong Kong for example.
Also hotspot use (y)

Add this to your basket and don't go through with the purchase.
They will call you and ask why - tell them you want data roaming and wifi hotspot and they will offer these extras for £10 pm instead of £12.

Three has *interesting* signal. I finding can make crystal clear calls on minimal coverage. Very odd but can't complain.

My contract with Vodafone is about to end and i'm looking for a SIM only deal. Is this the best around? Don't really care which network as long as it's at least 4GB data. I live in Barnsley and Three coverage is decent here (my family are on Three).

I can't seem to be able to transfer my old number using the online form. Any ideas good people?

Btw, 'TCB' appears to be tracking okay.

Good price funny how you never see o2 deals they have got to be biggest rip off plus love to flaunt the whole price increase every year like they are doing us a favour telling us.

shame can't get a signal in my house from any other network but o2

I work for MBNL the network sharing partnership between EE and 3. The 3G base station equipment is shared along with the backhaul. 90% of the masts are shared with EE retaining a few hundred purely for unilateral use. 4G base stations are not shared. EE use Huawei and Nokia for 4G and H3G use Samsung kit. The backhaul is sharedv BT, VM or microwave links. What else do you need to know?

Nonsense the o2 roaming was replaced with Orange, and the EE coverage is minimal if even existent as where 3 have transmitters you cannot roam on EE. EE&Three own a joint backhaul company MBNL (was T-Mobile/Three owned) that share base station transmitters.

You are talking rubbish, when the mast goes down three go bye bye and everyone else is on 2g. Don't tell me masts break at the same time. I live in a little town in middle of knowwhere. I used the ee coverage checker and it says mast broken even though there is a 4g signal. Get some clue before posting

3 = SH*T signal

The issue with 3 is they have almost no 2g coverage any more so if you're nowhere near a town you get nothing

3 is fantastic in the major cities. But yes, if you are outside of them coverage can be terrible.[/q

I would not say 0.5mbps on 4g in Newcastle is fantastic in a major city i am sick to death of complaining to them about the slow speeds and 4g never used to be like that.

I've been using 3,2,1 sim for a couple of years and not had any issues with the signal so ordered this over the weekend for my wife with £45 Topcashback, sim arrived Tuesday, activated and submitted request to transfer number that evening, although still waiting on Tesco releasing the number, should of happened yesterday but nothing so far.

recently had to cancel our 3 contract we had for my daughter as when she goes into one of the major cities she has no signal at all.

a company who cannot update their coverage checker and tells you that has to be doing something wrong.

Topcashback are offering £45 on this £9pm contract and Mobilephonesdirect has it at £6pm via redemption (and there is £10 Topcashback, too).

For anyone confused about who Three shares with for things, search for MBNL and have a read.

Yeah MVNO stands for Mobile Virtual Network Operator!
And I stand corrected. But can assure you this never used to be the case. Up until recently we were all advised to tell customers that. Not that anyone would care because a good deal is a deal!

Of course if the signal is crap then this is no good for you. But each network has good and bad areas. My main sim is with Three as it has decent signal in most places I go and is the only viable option at work (EE congested, O2 only 2G, VF no signal). This is a pretty decent deal, I have put my wife and son on a EE deal with same minutes, texts and data for £8.99 - for most people it is enough.

Let me translate that into English: "That is funny, I have worked for a major Three MNVO......"

Well you are wrong. Completely wrong. There are a few areas where there is no Three coverage and they use EE2g as a fall back, but these are very limited now. What you are thinking of is the mast sharing agreement between EE &Three. Both companies have their own signals and backhaul, this is not "piggy backing" off other companies. When Three were first set up they used O2 as a fall back. Actually O2 and Vodafone have a similar mast sharing agreement.

I work on the EE and 3 network, never heard so much guff from some of the posts above.

Been with Three since last September and changed my plan twice for better deals. Quite happy with how easy it is to change plans just through a live chat. Just yesterday I got 30GB data 200mins and unlimited texts for £11 on the Advanced plan.

Three have a deal with ee to lease some masts, three have 15% of the nationwide spectrum.

I have this and regret it. Service isn't great, even when service shows I am unable to connect to internet half the time but worst of all three harass you with calls a lot trying to upsell because you are a 'loyal customer'.

Every network have their own areas. I've had this deal for almost a year now, topcashback didn't come through which is a disappointment.

TBC is also offering £45 just in case someone wants to give it a shot

I got these last month through mobile phones direct , after cash back only 5a month , 3 coverage is much better then used to be and I am well impressed by customer service ( not like some other voda or bt)

You what? No I'm not wrong at all google it! Three piggy off other networks masses!

Unfortunately you are wrong three have their own masts. It's the opposite where I live ee haven't repaired their 4g mast since October and they won't. There is too much capacity in our local area and the networks have colluded to all use one mast, threes it stinks. Still waiting for three to offer me something in the 30 days since I got my pac code will ring them on the last day then it's bye bye

Lol I've worked four three major mvno and I can assure you three piggy off networks. Not new news been that way for years

Everyone would run to that network if that was the case. 100% signal at all times. Be silly other networks giving there masses away so 3 can have the custom...

I drive all around the UK and generally find the coverage excellent.

this has been around since last year. shame 3 have some of the worst coverage in the country