Radiation is good
I just set up Three sim card with 200mb monthly , it signed into TMobile,
BUT doing so somehow ate up the full 200mb......grrrr
So can I have 2 of these sims on the same account ? Or do I need to use another email and do it all over again ?
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Phone Expert
Three UK only offer 4G roaming on their own partner networks such as Three Italy/Three Austria/Three Denmark/Three Sweden.
As for US you will only ever get 3G.
If you want a decent SIM for travelling around EU that’s purchased from UK try Vodafone UK or EE UK.
Originally Posted by Boz1
Phone Expert
Good luck with 3G/ 3G+ In certain EU countries networks are only bothered about their 4G offering and the speeds are poor.
Generally if you pay peanuts expect there to be a catch somewhere.
Radiation is good
I put a new Three sim in my phone and it activated in 20 minutes or so.
With a welcome to USA text message , telling about the costs ,
But this is a free 200mb a month sim and the data does not work !
APN says three.co.uk and connects at 3.5G TMobile band 2,
Any idea what to check and get the data working ?
Do I need to make a My account ?
Ohh the internet signal sign on the toolbar has an "r" at the edge of the triangle......
Thanks for your ideas
Post Machine
It is stated by Three that those SIMs have to be used first in the UK. I don't know if that's how it works in reality, but that's what's stated.
In case that's not necessary, and it will work in the US even without being used first in the UK, do you have data roaming enabled in your phone settings?
Radiation is good
Hi , yes I have data roaming on..,
If you want to play I can mail you a new sim,
Send me a PM ,
Post Machine
Sure! Thank you!
I've got more phones than fingers
I got this 200MB free Three SIM https://www.ebay.com/itm/172964555040 on eBay last month and managed to get it to work without leaving the US. Here's what worked for me:
I first tried activating the 200 MB at http://three.co.uk/freedata. I didn't expect it to work as I'm in the US and it didn’t. I got redirected to a page saying I had no credit and needed to top up.
Next I went to https://www.three.co.uk/My3Account/ and registered and activated the SIM.
Then I added £10 using PayPal at http://uksims.eu as I could not get Kwikpay to work. UKSIMs took nearly 24 hours to send me the PIN which I applied to the SIM at https://www.three.co.uk/My3Account/
Finally, with the SIM in the phone, with the correct three.co.uk APN set, data on and WiFi off, I went back to http://three.co.uk/freedata and was able to activate the 200 MB free promo. The page asked for UK address so I used one for a London hotel that I Googled.
The data works, I ‘ve used 94 MB and it hasn’t touched my £10 balance. I also noticed that the SIM sometimes connects to AT&T and sometimes T-Mobile. I though Three stopped working with AT&T a year or so ago.
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Post Machine
Very nice, Yeswap!
Post Machine
Well, I got the SIM card that trackVW sent me.
I decided to try something similar, but a little different than Yeswap.
I went to https://www.three.co.uk/My3Account/ and registered the Three free 200MB/mo free data SIM card. But I did NOT fund it like Yeswap did.
Then I went to http://three.co.uk/freedata on the phone with the Three free 200MB/mo data SIM card trackVW sent me in it. Unless Yeswap didn't fully post what he saw when he first went to http://three.co.uk/freedata before registering/activating the SIM, or if it's because I activated it first but didn't fund it, I see something different than he posted. I see:
So, I'm wondering 1) if Three changed something since Yeswap activated his, or 2) if funding the SIM would really allow activation of the free 200MB/mo at http://three.co.uk/freedata, or 3) if maybe the Three SIM card trackVW was sent by the seller isn't really a free 200MB/mo data SIM.Sorry, your current SIM isn’t eligible.
But don't worry. To get your hands on 200MB you just need to bag yourself a Data Reward SIM. You could also pop in to any Three Store to pick one up.
Get yourself an eligible SIM.
Since I got the message I quoted above at http://three.co.uk/freedata, saying the SIM isn't eligible for the free 200MB/mo, I sort of don't to fund it with £10 just to see if that message will change to allow activation of the free 200MB/mo if it's funded like it did for Yeswap, since I already have £9.95 left on another Three SIM.
Did I mess something up? Does anybody have any suggestions?
I've got more phones than fingers
My Three SIM came in packaging advertising the 200 MB for free promotion. Here's what it looks like:
I have an older Three SIM without the 200 MB free feature. If I go to http://three.co.uk/freedata with it in my phone I get the message saying the SIM is not eligible.
Radiation is good
Nice post. I'm pretty sure the 200MB/month free offer is only available for mobile broadband SIMs. There may also be an issue of it only working when you activate, but that's pure speculation.
Did the new SIM activate from the US without problem? Did you have to add credit first?
Post Machine
I got the tri-cut SIM from trackVW on the credit card sized card without packaging. He'll have to verify if it came packaged like you show above.
The tri-cut SIM from trackVW on the credit card sized card looked exactly like the other Three SIM card I have that was NOT advertised as a 200MB/mo free SIM card when I bought it from an eBay seller, which did NOT come with any packaging.
Do you still have the credit card size card that was inside the packaging you posted above? Does the credit card size card look any different for the Three 200MB/mo free SIM card vs the other Three SIM card without the free 200MB/mo?
Post Machine
I'm not sure if that question was for me, but yes, the new SIM card I posted about above activated with no trouble, just like the first Three SIM card I got last year did. I did NOT have to add credit to activate it.
I've got more phones than fingers
As I explained in post 53 ( https://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1905605?p=17057087#post17057087) above, I was able to activate the SIM in the US. I had to add a £10 top up before http://three.co.uk/freedata allowed me to activate the 200 MB free
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