379 Customer Reviews over 10 pages
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- Eastbourne
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-05-22
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I have used three mobile broadband for more than 5 years. The broadband has been fine. My issue is not with that. When trying to cancel my contract, I have had to jump through hoops which are just not acceptable. I have spent hours on the app, live chat, email, phone numbers and 'contact us' forms. All getting me nowhere. It's a roundabout of excuses and 'try other' methods...This is massively unfair and looks setup to try and stop anybody from cancelling which is very unethical. I finally got through to somebody who 'understood' my frustrations yet could still not cancel my contract even though that was the department they worked in?! I had to cancel my direct debit as had no other option, now I receive a unpaid bill and the threat of my information passed onto a debt collection agency! After yet more phone calls, just three this time, I spoke to another lady who has said I will have to be charged double the amount that the letter I have just received says??!! This is a joke and feels like a huge scam and disservice to a loyal customer of years. It's even more unreasonable when I have barely even used the service for the last 3 months. Lastly, I have managed to speak to someone who says they will be able to cancel the service but she has to contact another department and will phone me back within 3 working days...So my case is still not resolved. I have even said I am happy to pay the amount for the one month cancellation but think it massively unfair to have to pay an extra month on top of that (is that even legal?). I will certainly not be using three ever again and will be moving my pay as you go service to a rival company asap.
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- Eastbourne
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2019-12-14
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Dire. 4 phone calls, 9 people, over an hour and now been told issue will be looked into within 48 hours.
Final person I spoke with had a major attitude problem.
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- Eastleigh
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2022-02-28
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Rubbish ! loads of calls to three tech . You maybe one of the few that gets good internet speeds , if you don’t want the hassle and get stuck in a contract you can’t get out of stay away !
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- Eastleigh
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2022-02-28
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Rubbish ! loads of calls to three tech . You maybe one of the few that gets good internet speeds , if you don’t want the hassle and get stuck in a contract you can’t get out of stay away !
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- Edinburgh
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2019-06-13
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Woefully inadequate customer service, clearly under trained, didn’t understand whether vat was included or not when asked, (three different members of staff), two months in succession spending an hour at a time to try to resolve, but “computer says no”. Six year customer now looking at other opinions
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- Edinburgh
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2023-02-09
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Not had experience of customer service yet but the 5G broadband is faster than full fibre here. Fastest speed I've had was at my parents' place 1020Mb down and 108Mb up. can't grumble with that for £20 a month
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- Edinburgh
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-02-29
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- England
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2015-08-20
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Three are the most difficult company to deal with. I ordered a broadband device to take away on holiday with me over the phone. I was assured it would be delivered before I went on holiday. As it did not turn up by this date I rushed to a Three store to pick up a new device and in turn take out a new contract. I tried to cancel the contract and was told they would log the call but I couldn't cancel until I received the device or if I refused the device. On my return from holiday the device had been stuffed in my letter box - I did not even get the chance to refuse the device. I then called customer services and after hours and hours of conversation over 5 days they still refused to let me return the device. i went back to the store I bought the 2nd device from and they tried reasoning with Three on my behalf however the call centre still refused to accept the device back. After numerous more calls eventually and emails eventually Three said I could send the device back. I sent the device back and am now being chased for an outstanding balance on my account, even though I set up a direct debit?? I am now suffering with panic attacks as I honestly don't know what to do.
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2018-12-23
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Be warned Three Mobile are allowing third party companies to commit fraud in my eyes and this is why. Three mobile suddenly took out an extra £27.52 out of my account on my bill, I was soon on the phone to see what is going on. They say that another company called Tap2Bill has charged me through my mobile for a service that I have taken out, I know nothing about this at all and told them that this is wrong and obviously fraudulent. They answer telling me that I need to cancel this subscription that I know nothing about and continue after several calls to say this. They tried on one point to do a conference call with this company and was not successful as the phone kept going dead, after a lot of angry words and calls they refunded me this amount but say they should not do this. I ended my two phones with them and now they are saying I owe more charges from this imaginary subscription hence why I am going to advertise this as much as possible because everyone needs to know that this can happen to anyone and if you look online there is hundreds of people having the same problems and getting charged for it and not getting their money back. We as customers are not told from the start about any third party companies that can charge us via our Three mobile. Also be aware that the regulators are aware of these problems yet do not seem to do anything and just say it is between our self and Three. I have now joined BT who on email have stated there will be no extra charges as they do not allow this to happen and have capped all phones to zero so we get no surprise charges (Well done to BT) Be aware people and will update on further communications with Three mobile, a company that in our eyes allows third party companies to defraud their customers and just do not seem to care. Please look out for lots of other reviews and publications and pass on to friends and family of how they do business and how they can do the same to anybody.
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2018-08-16
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Worst service from a service provider. They took my deposit, didnt deliver the phone that I had ordered and no one phones or emails to explain why. I then had to make 5 phone calls to find out what was happening on the 5th call I was told that they had tried to contact me, which was an absolute lie and i told them so. Cancelled my order there and then.
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2014-11-28
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After spending hours on the phone trying to resolve disgusting behaviour, advice and as far as I'm concerned theft with (Three) competitor for my son. I realised just how lucky my experience with (Three) has been.
I as a total novice went to my local store 2yrs ago and asked for unlimited use. Groundbreaking idea! Bingo! I got just what I asked for. Never any issues and good connection the majority of the time.
I believe if a company does something right by me I should say thank you. So here goes. Thank you Three! My bill rarely goes over unless I phone abroad or 0845 numbers
This is a genuine review from a happy customer.
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2018-12-04
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I don't get any service from three since I don't have any signal on my phone. Can't make any calls, can't text, can't use data either. Just have red no signal thing all the time. Have now idea what I am paying for! Tried to go to a local three store- useless. Report network issues almost daily- never heard anything back from them! Not sure how they legally exist for taking money and not providing any services. What a scheme! Three Sucks!!!
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2017-09-19
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Awful awful awful. They try to keep you on the line for as long as possible then tell you they need to transfer you. I explained that I needed to attend to my crying baby and asked that they quickly confirm if my account has actually been cancelled as I requested previous weeks ago. They make it very hard for you to cancel and then they tell you that you need to pay outstanding balance before they will cancel your account even though you no longer use the services or are even able to use the service. Really bad. Would not recommend and would not use again.
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- Essex
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2016-01-16
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Would not recommend! Bought a 1 month dongle plan for £19.99 and the bill came to £25 when i used about 2gb max. I then couldnt access my My3 account to pay the bill because it was blocked - because i wasnt aware of the bill - so i had to call customer services many times to try to work out how to access my account. I ended up paying the £25 bill over the phone but then still couldnt access my account to top up as the sim is for a dongle so cant receive texts which the password would have been sent to. When trying to contact them to change the password they were no help at all and i still havent been able to access my account after trying for a week. I am now on EE which i highly recommend!
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- Exeter
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2023-03-02
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We decided to try the 4g home hub as internet speeds and reliability are vital for my wife who works for the NHS from home three days a week. (The other days she works in the hospital). From the start the speeds were nothing like as advertised. Our old adsl connection were as fast (between 4 and 6 mbps) and the reliability of service was woeful. I (foolishly) persuaded her to stick with it to see what happened. What happened after 4 months of frustration and unreliability is that we cancelled the agreement subject to having to pay almost £350 for a service that was so pathetic that it is disgraceful that any company can be allowed to trade with such misleading and false claims. Presumably this is how they make their money. AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COST. WE ARE LOSING £350… DON’T BE NEXT
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- Eye suffolk
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2021-01-18
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Very poor srvice works sometime then nothing for hrs. would not waste time or money using 3 mobile broadband. Support is a waste of time they just blame number of people using it. HELLOI thought thats what people pay Broadband for to use not look at. You spend hrs on hold on the phone and get no where with them.
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- Failsworth
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2017-05-02
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Signed up to capped contract. Then recieved stupid messages billing me 1.50 a message and sky rocketting the bill. 3 said there was no way to stop it and i have to pay. Now i have been took to court. Avoid there contract scam you have been warned!!!!!!
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- FELIXSTOWE
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-02-24
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I brought 3 broadband 2 years ago when I lived in a caravan. I've never had a problem with speed. Continued streaming play . Nothing . I can only praise 3. I have a sim only contact also for my phone. . Never a problem. I was with ee before . Who were dreadful. So happy days. Keep up the good work guys .
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- Fife
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2016-11-25
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I decided to join three mobile and get a contract SIM. Worst thing I could have possibly done. The first 6 months was meant to be half price. £11.50! But, they charged me that PLUS the full amount. They admitted to charging me too much and would not refund me. So, therefore, I cancelled the contract SIM. They are now threatening me with an outstanding balance of £213!! For cancelling. Threatening to take me to court etc. Keep sending letters, emails, you name it. I don't believe I should pay this money as my actual mobile did not come from three it was just the SIM card and they are expecting me to pay this for their mistake. Just don't go with three it's the worst and they do this to everyone and the signal with them are rubbish anyway I'd recommend going with something like virgin network rather than three.
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- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2013-01-27
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AVOID THREE AT ALL COSTS!!! Customer service is appalling, called them today to cancel after 4 yrs and the first person i spoke to said i would incur a charge for cancelling early even though my contract is due up at the end of the month, second person i spoke to called me a liar as i told him i was offered a better deal with another reputable company and was told not only did this well known company supply refurbished handsets but that i would need to pay £60 to cancel early even though my plan is 35 a month. I eventually agreed to pay this amount just so i did not have to deal with this company any more. I was then passed through to another department only to be told on 5 separate attempts that i could not be located on their systems, after 45 mins, 4 different advisors i eventually was able to cancel for a fee of 59.25. I have since contacted the other company who aledgedly sell refurbished handsets to be told this is false and three have used this tactic to pressure other customers into not cancelling. DO NOT BUY FROM THREE, YOU WILL REGRET IT
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- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-08-13
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Its been a frustrating and ultimately unsatisfactory relationship with 3. I've just now cancelled my broadband after many months of poor connectivity and customer service, worse than other companies I deal with that are also working form home during Lockdown.
How does an existing customer, since 2011, feel when you find out your provider offers an unlimited broadband for about half the price of my current contract? That they finally admit your router is old and will send you a new one after many previous calls where excuses were made, e.g. work in your area, reboot your device, reset it etc. etc. Too many excuses, not enough interest in resolving the issue until I finally rang in to cancel. Too difficult to make a complaint (no complaints email address!)
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- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2018-12-29
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I have been with Three for over a year now and have been very happy with them. I was previously with O2 and my bills varied from month to month - lots of small charges for things. But since moving to Three my bill each month has been exactly as promised.
The transfer was smooth and any support issues I have raised have been dealt with efficiently. And network coverage seems pretty good to me too. So, all in all I would recommend Three.
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- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2021-02-15
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Just beware that if the post office is slow in returning the router, under the money back guarantee, then you will be receiving almost hourly phone calls from the collections department. There is nothing you can do to stop this (I was told before hand that if I called with the barcode from the return receipt that would be enough - its not, only the router in their hands counts). This might sound minor, but it took the post office 2 months to return the router and during that time I was flagged as a debtor requiring hourly calls.
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- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2022-08-10
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Really cant beat 3 Mobile 5g BB package I was truly astonished at the speed I was getting 175mbs download over Wifi can vary from device to device but plug an ethernet cable in and i get 250mbs+ only small grip it Upload speed could be better Just over 10Mbs but that's enough for what i do
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- Glasgow
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2022-06-02
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Very poor signal will be leaving when my contract has expired
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- Gloucester
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2019-10-04
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Gloucester is not a good area for broadband and BT does not provide a fibre service in my area so I can't use Sky which I would like to. I could have Virgin Media but they are expensive and unreliable..
Three broadband is steady, I have unlimited and it is reasonably priced at £27 pm. Signal strength varies a lot so I use the personal hotspot on my iPhone which is also with Three. Strength is around 18mbps.
Any information you may have about BT providing a local fibre service would be great.
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- Gloucester
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2021-03-20
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Almost impossible to use can be better to just switch it off .
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- Gloucester
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2019-12-10
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Very unreliable and if you plan on using this for online gaming it will perform poorly if anybody else is connected. 2 or 3 streaming devices is enough to faulter three and their broadband.
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- Gloucestershire
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2023-03-09
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- Gpsport
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2023-09-28
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Three 5g broadband really is something I was a bit iffy at first but wow. If your close to a 5g mast your laughing place the modem in the window and you have full fast reliable connection u download a lot some big files and they come down faster than that of normal fiber broadband I can download a 70 gb file in mins it's so impressive I don't know why anyone would pay for a fixed connection it's much faster than any fixed broadband I can't recommend it enough
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- Gravesend
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2020-04-21
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Not happy,and not a leg to stand on as going mobile home internet doesnt have a minimum speed promise, only 3 months into an 18month contract and i cant count amount of times i have taken sim out of Huawei router, reboot run a speed test and in evenings when im home from work between 6pm to 11pm my average download is between 1mbs to 4mbs, so forget netflix or play call of duty online, soooo much buffering and lag its pointless trying. in the 30 days try period when first into this contract i was getting roughly 20mbs download and about the same upload. Like i say now lucky to get 5mbs down and 1mb up. i Want out i dont want offers or money off, this was a really stupid choice thinking this would replace a landline internet service. Reminds me the days of dial up the time it takes to load pages, and buffering on youtube its like ive gone back 15 years! Just need to find out how much this crap gonna cost me to get out of contract?
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- Gravesend
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- Three Mobile
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- 2023-01-02
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I have been using Three 5G home broadband now for six months. Download speeds are averaging 500 Mbps and upload 100 Mbps. I would recommend to anyone who has Three 5G coverage in their area.No drop outs at all..One very satisfied customer.
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- great yarmouth
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- Three Mobile
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- 2020-09-30
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its a pity i have to give 1 star because they dont deserve it.I have to log in every 5 minutes so its impossible to do anything.I contact customer service who blame everything they can think of weather.location.congestion ect but what it boils down to is they charge for something they dont provide..Absolutely useless,dishonest company..do not waste your money.
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- Gwynedd
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- Three Mobile
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- 2021-08-31
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I've been with 3 for 8 mainly trouble free years, until this year..."Upgrading" work was done on my local mast and now my service is ****... Download as slow as 0.8mbps, upload at 0.03 mbps...easier to put a hysterical emoji and a turd than post those figures. Absolute piss take. To be fair though, the Live Chat handlers are always courteous and try to be helpful, but aren't...
Do yourself a favour and give them a very, very, very wide berth
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- Hackney
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- Three Mobile
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- 2010-01-30
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I have rigged up a homemade antenna on the roof to get the most signal - 4/5 bars - and this mobile internet is still SLOW. During the weekend and after 5ish on weekdays, it gets noticeably worse, which means pretty awful. It is certainly better than having no internet at all, but I don't see this as being an alternative to proper BB. The CS is fine, but they obviously can't do anything about this. They say that they are doing a signal upgrade sometime next year, but who knows?
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- hackney
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2020-11-22
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I know a lot of people are down on 3, but it really has felt like they were putting in some serious infrastructure round here. I'm in an 'outside' reception area, on the fringe of coverage, so I got an external aerial for my 5G hub. It was pretty good at the beginning (4 months ago), averaging 200Mbps, but it broke every couple of weeks. Now things are better: seems steady, and am routinely getting 500Mbps at my computer. That's 4 times faster than most fibre. And it doesn't go slower in the evenings. Am quite impressed: for 29 quid a month it's impressive. I hope it stays like this! Well done three...
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- Halifax
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2020-05-27
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- Harlow
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2018-11-23
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Terrible customer service.
Terrible customer service. Twice now Three has taken the money from my account to early. I changed the date to the 1st of every month and they have continued to take it later. Spoke to an adviser that assured me it will be taken on the 1st next month and again its been taken to early causing me to go over drawn twice and be charge by my bank. When I called Three there solution was to have me call my bank to cancel the diret debt and pay manually from now on (Which I bet there is an extra charge on).
Awful service for there mistake as I've effectively been lied to by an adviser who assured me the details have been changed and now I'm being charged extra AGAIN due to there incompetence or lying just to get rid of me quickly. Once my contract is up I will be leaving Three and I'll tell anyone not to go with this network.
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- Harrogate
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2009-11-13
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Absolutely unreliable service. Unable to Skype or video conferencing. Misleading information before signing contract. Costumer service advised me to monitor my internet speed and tried to convince me that there is no problem with traffic volume when all my tests shown that service is grossly oversubscribed. Summarized : one horror story in 10 years of using internet.
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- Hartlepool
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-08-29
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Very rarely does the speed reach 20 megabits. It never does in the evening and often stops working completely. The wifi unit itself also crashes often needing to be reset in order to get any connection. I have been with three many years but this service has let them down terribly
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