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Theo Markettos - 17 Feb 2008 18:06 GMT

I've been thinking about getting a Three PAYG SIM. It seems like WePay is
not available for new customers after October 2007, but it might be the
better tariff for me. I was wondering if there's any way to get on that
tariff. If I bought an old SIM pack from eBay, would that work or would I
be put on the new rate Flat12 when I registered? Or would there be any
pitfalls in buying a SIM that had already been used by someone (I'd port in
a number) - would they let me do it?

Does anyone know if there's a difference between normal Three SIMs and HSDPA
SIMs?

Thanks
Theo

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andy - 18 Feb 2008 09:22 GMT

On 17 Feb, 18:06, Theo Markettos <theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:

> I've been thinking about getting a Three PAYG SIM. It seems like WePay is
> not available for new customers after October 2007, but it might be the
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> Thanks
> Theo

I suspect there won't be any new connections to the tariff, and the
date might be longer ago than you mention. I'd be wary of old SIMs
that might have a limited shelf-life if not activated; I don't know
about on 3, but on some of the others, this is somewhere between 3 and
12 months.

So you might have to try and find a secondhand one to transfer. I
don't know how easy this would be, but in your favour is that the SIMs
don't seem to expire if not used for a while.

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Theo Markettos - 18 Feb 2008 11:37 GMT

> I suspect there won't be any new connections to the tariff, and the
> date might be longer ago than you mention. I'd be wary of old SIMs
> that might have a limited shelf-life if not activated; I don't know
> about on 3, but on some of the others, this is somewhere between 3 and
> 12 months.

Thanks. I didn't realise unopened SIM packs would expire. I tried an old
O2 SIM yesterday, which had been put in a phone about a year ago but never
used/registered and that failed to register, so either the act of merely
putting it in a phone caused the clock to start or that O2 expire their SIM
packs.

(I want a number on O2 or Tesco to port to Three - anyone know if they're
sniffy about porting out a number from a brand new SIM? Do you have to
credit it before you can port out?)

> So you might have to try and find a secondhand one to transfer. I
> don't know how easy this would be, but in your favour is that the SIMs
> don't seem to expire if not used for a while.

I might do that. Though having looked at the detail of how WePay credits
work it's not such a good deal for my usage - I might stick with Flat12
after all.

Theo

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andy - 20 Feb 2008 01:04 GMT

On 18 Feb, 11:37, Theo Markettos <theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:

> > I suspect there won't be any new connections to the tariff, and the
> > date might be longer ago than you mention. I'd be wary of old SIMs
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>
> Theo

Yes, I got slightly misleading info when I queried it at the start

When you have WePay credit, it gets used first, but then base credit
of a certain month gets used before the next month's WePay

Thus you have to top up at least every 60 days, and the ordinary
credit cannot be gradually accrued for a few months

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