I topped up my S2 subscription by £10 and received the usual 'free
stuff' including an internet allowance of 150Mb.

However my Three mobile dongle has just run out of credit with a week
to go, so I decided to buy a one week internet add-on at £2.50 for the
S2 which I can also use as a modem.

However I have two concerns.

One - how much download/upload data do I get for the one week internet
add-on - 'fair use' doesn't exactly mean a lot to me when I surfing
the web.

And two: both the relevant page on the S2 and the Three web site
states that 'free stuff' will be used up before any add-ons. I take
this to mean that the 'free stuff' 150Mb internet allowance will be
used up, before the internet add-on allowance. In which case after
using up the add-on allowance I will be left with no internet access
at all until the next £10 top-up. And I'm not doing that until I have
had some use out of the other 'free stuff' such as texts and 3-3 calls
etc.

CJB.

Seems like a scam to keep

In an earlier contribution to this discussion, CJB
wrote:
I topped up my S2 subscription by £10 and received the usual 'free
stuff' including an internet allowance of 150Mb.

However my Three mobile dongle has just run out of credit with a week
to go, so I decided to buy a one week internet add-on at £2.50 for the
S2 which I can also use as a modem.

However I have two concerns.

One - how much download/upload data do I get for the one week internet
add-on - 'fair use' doesn't exactly mean a lot to me when I surfing
the web.

And two: both the relevant page on the S2 and the Three web site
states that 'free stuff' will be used up before any add-ons. I take
this to mean that the 'free stuff' 150Mb internet allowance will be
used up, before the internet add-on allowance. In which case after
using up the add-on allowance I will be left with no internet access
at all until the next £10 top-up. And I'm not doing that until I have
had some use out of the other 'free stuff' such as texts and 3-3 calls
etc.

CJB.

Seems like a scam to keep

Buying add-ons for the S2 and using it as a modem seems to me to be much
better value than using a mobile broadband SIM in a dongle. When I bought my
dongle, it came with 12GB of data, valid for 12 months. Top-ups beyond that
are £10 per month, and provide 1GB of data.

However, with an add-on on the S2, you get a month's worth for only £5 and -
based what others have said - you seem to get at least 2GB of data - so it's
4 times better value.

I would assume that with a week's worth for £2.50, you would get at least
500MB of data - but I haven't tested it.

Father Christmas brought me an S2 which I topped up for £10 - and the
freebies run out on 25th March. I've *still* got £10.22 worth (don't ask!)
of credit and 596 texts *and* I've still got about 20MB of my original 150MB
of data left. I've just been away from home for a week, and used it quite a
lot in that time - albeit subject to crap speeds which severely limit the
amount of data you can use! I was rather hoping the data would run out so
that I could try an add-on - but it didn't!

Incidentally, since the free stuff which you get by topping up is used
*before* the add-on, there's absolutely no point in buying an add-on before
you need to - because the clock will start ticking even if you're still
using the free stuff. In a worst-case scenario, if your free 150MB lasts for
more than a week after buying your £2.50 add-on, the add-on will be
completely wasted.
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Cheers,
Roger
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