379 Customer Reviews over 10 pages
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- NORTH EAST
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2023-06-02
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Poor network connection ALL of the time. Was mis-sold business contracts (broadband & mobile). Broadband speed was 0.5 to 2 meg in my business (so I have started cancellation procedure). I was told they use a different network from their mobile network so broadband speeds are faster- a lie! My mobile business contracts are no better- lose all benefits (Three Plus). Ive written 2 complaints without reply. Very poor overall.
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- North London
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-04-06
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Agree with all other reviews, as we have had the exact same experience.
Pulled into a £20 P/M contract for 24 months.
Unbelivable. I've been with three since 2007, I have my phone contract and recently the mobile wifi (with Huawei AI Cube)
Given the current work from home situation for most people, its become more important than streaming netflix etc. During a working day I have to reset the hub multiple times to get an even passable connection.
Phoned them up and told to switch to 3G, which is equally as sh** as their pathetic 4G connection. The amount of disconnects and low speed daily has become intolerable.
As soon as both my contracts are up, they will lose my business forever.
Do yourself a favour and just avoid Three no matter how many offers they throw at you. They are liars.
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- North London
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-04-26
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In a "good service" area, yet getting top speeds of 5 Mbps and average daytime speeds of 1-2 Mbps. I suggest getting a fibre connection instead, this is simply far too slow
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- North Norfolk
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2021-05-01
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I have been using three for years we had three phones and a mobile broadband dongle then a Huawei router , problems started when 4G rolled out everything became unreliable, not so bad on phones butemail through router became unreliable as streaming video has become more widely used the router situation is awful. however setting it to 3G does give consistent 4mbit down and 6 up so Netflix etc works ok , the real issue is customer service or lack of it I have now got rid of the phones and moved to different networks the router SIM has 9 months to go but I'll move to another providor , they clearly rate shape their network otherwise how can you have a full signal and no data throuput !
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- Location
- Northampton
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2015-01-20
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It is difficult to know where to start with this company. Their network coverage is unreliable and nothing worse than not receiving texts or suddenly finding that you cannot make a call because there is no signal. They were particularly unhelpful and some of the call centre staff (and one of their managers) were quite rude when I explained that they were not being very helpful. After my contract expired I tried to cease the service. I found it difficult to get a PAC Code (promises but no code forthcoming). Eventually referred them to the Ombudsman Service. Cannot recommend Three and would be surprised if it is still around in a year's time!!
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- Northern Ireland
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2019-08-28
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I had been with Three for some years and found it reliable and cost effective despite some signal drop out issues. I had a £10 per month unlimited texts and calls and 4GB data plan which suited me fine. That was until I got a letter from Three to say that, since my 12month contract had finished they were changing me to a monthly rolling contract for the same service but at £14 per month!!!
I went to my local Three store (Bloomfields Shopping Centre, Bangor, Northern Ireland) and spoke with the store manager, a most unhelpful individual. He told me, quite plainly, that my options were to take it or leave the network. I chose to leave the network but now wish I hadn't.
I found a deal with SMARTY, a wholly owned division of Three, giving me what I had at the price I had been paying and with a monthly contract. I initiated the changeover but quickly ran into issues, not least with their useless customer services agents. I instructed them to terminate the transfer process as they had frustrated me. They assured me it was terminated and I resolved to find another deal.
But they hadn't terminated, the transfer carried on and I was cut off from Three then cut off from SMARTY and left with no service! I had to go back to Three on a whole new deal and get a PAC code from SMARTY to get my old number back.
I gave the PAC code to Three, was told the usual 1 to two business days for transfer and waited. Nothing happened. I contacted Three customer services (SAVE ME from Indian call centres!!) to be told there had been "an issue" with the PAC code so they started again. Three days later, still no transfer so I called them again. Another "issue" with the PAC code so it was started again!
Now, after the third attempt, it's still not done!! And their customer services do nothing but ask the same questions again and again and make the same empty promises again and again. And so, 7 days later, I still have not had my original number transferred back. USELESS!
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- Northern Ireland
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2009-07-29
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I have a deal with a speed of up to 3.6mbs, but through testing the speed from different speed test sites, I have an average of 0.5 mbs, with a low of 0.36mbs and a high (occasionally) of 0.8mbs. I am well aware that the speed will depend on how many subscribers are on line at one time, but would have thought that the ISP would have upgaded their service to cope with this, and fulfill their obligations of providing somewhere near the speeds promised.
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- Norwich
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-10-19
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The worst Internet service ever!!!!!! Everything everyone else says on here is absolutely true. The only positive thing I can say is some times, weekdays, upto 18:00 I can watch Netflix for a few hours, bbc, itv 4od buffer all the time and My5 don't even bother. After 18:00 and weekends it stops all the time, have to keep resetting it. I have been without any service for hours at a time. Like now for instance. Customer service lie, in fact fight back!! I would bet staff at Three don't have or use it. I have 3 phone, now just sim contract after years of huge bills, I use it as a hot spot, in the same home as my broadband and get a better service (tho that also buffers like crazy) DON'T BOTHER WITH 3 BROADBAND, PLEASE BELIEVE THESE REVIEWS
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- Norwich
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-02-05
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- Nottingham
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2015-05-16
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Unbelievably ridiculous customer service, they made me go four times to the store and not get what I asked for after ignoring 6 emails of mine. They asked for £700 to terminate my contract and they couldn't do anything when I lost my sim card. DON'T GO WITH THREE
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- oswaldtwistle lancashire
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2015-05-08
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I went to three for mobile broadband march 2014, everything was fine and i received a good overall speed,
12 weeks ago i started having problems with the speed, very slow, sometimes near impossible to even get up a text page, used to watch clips from youtube
but that is near impossible now as it keeps buffering and cutting out
have rang the three team a few times but they just say that they will perform checks on the local mast and get back to me, there is nothing done at all, they told me to take my dongle into a three store to have it checked, when i took it they said that they could not check it as they do not have laptops in store, i use a desktop so why not check it on the shop computer
i have been in touch with them again today ( 8 may 2015 )
lets hope i get better results this time , keeping my fingers and toes crossed.
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- Pembroke Dock
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2023-04-16
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Absolutely rubbish constantly crashing worst internet of my life and I've been with sky says it all
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- Pereira
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2018-05-11
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The worst provider i ever experienced.. Signal never works,I live in central London and Im never able to use my services, I constantly need to connect any Wi-Fi wether i am at home or outside.
Recently i gave Birth and when it was time for me to rush to the hospital I tried to make a call to reach my husband but the signal was so pooooor that i couldnt get hold of him. Thanks god i could call via whatsapp using the Wi-Fi from another provider ... very disappointed with that company I have to wait for my contract to end so I can stop this ****
Also when I asked for an extension as my bill came so high they wouldn’t allow me ... real rubbish !
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- Plymouth
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2010-06-18
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Very happy with service, speeds around 3.0 mb. Not had the joy of customer services yet, and hopfully never will
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- Plymouth
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2023-10-03
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Absolutely rubbish I don't think we have managed to watch a full programme for over a year.they say 55 mb speed we get 1.08 sometimes 5 or 6
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- Plymouth
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2021-01-20
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Utterly useless. Utterly utterly useless. If you have any opportunity to use anything else - do it.
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- Plympton Plymouth
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2022-11-07
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- Purley area (south of)
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2010-12-09
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3-MOBILE are not trustworthy!
I do not advise people not to deal with them but to knows this fact from someone with three years experience!
PHONES
On paper everything looks the best in the market but I experienced intermittent mobile broadband signal failure join my phone and have left now to pay more elsewhere in three hope of better quality and lesso lies about " network upgrades etc". I also suffered dozens of nuisance calls for weeks from their Retention team owing me hot deals when I got a PAC code to leave...and that was a torturous process that took ages. As I told them, if only you valued and really looked after your existing customers instead of chasing new business so much you might not piss them off so much they just want to get away at all costs! Many upgrade offers are just old stock they are trying to get rid of for a fast profit...always shop around and NEVER accept what you are initially offered. That is 3-Mobile's game in a nutshell, as is apparently anything something but afterwards secretly giving less our not doing it. They rely on talking customers into submission and on their innocence and/or apathy! It is the Eastern way!
USB Broadband
Half decent service but with intermittent failure. Lost it completely for a month. Sometimes.Indian customer service may say we will put a credit on your account but thry will not...shocking liars, comes naturally, will say anything really but it rarely comes to pass, though the USB dongle people are better than the phone side.to be fair.
I agreed a deal for a laptop + MiFi yesterday but am calling back to check the entire deal & the vfull specs of the machine as I smell a rat. If so I will cancel and never deal with them again.
Your MUST take notes of everything you are told in detail and keep them all as back up for your case in future with 3-Mobile...a very tricky company indeed. I spent time in the East and know what they are like...not to be taken at face value I assure you!
Conclusion: DODGY
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- Ramsgate, Kent
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2023-01-08
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Nonsense speeds with 5g router. Its giving me a speed of 2-20mbps variable. Totally unreliable. My ee mobile gives me speeds of 30-50mbps on 4g signal. Just bought it today and i live on the 4th floor with no high rise building near by still terrible reception.
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- Reading
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2020-10-28
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Oh dear, I have the same tale of woe that everyone else is posting. When I first switched to three mobile broadband last year it was good enough - getting ~7mbps. But now the service has dropped to the point that web pages won’t load and the servers can’t be contacted. Right now I have 0.4 mbps. A lot of the day it is totally non-functioning. But I have full signal strength. So clearly it is a throttling issue that 3 are doing. They have oversold their capacity until no one gets any. I have tried complaining but it is a futile waste of many hours and nothing is resolved. Why is it so difficult to complain to them? - and why don’t they take the complaints seriously? I have many neighbours who are in the same situation – all wishing they were not with 3 – so it is not just my equipment. Earlier this year I complained and they reset something on the network, and suddenly service was resumed. (removed the throttling?). But it had all dwindled to nothing. Full signal strength and no delivery sums them up. And they don't want to know.
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- Reading
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2021-11-18
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No internet for a majority of the time; service is getting progressively worse as I assume we get further throttled
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- Reigate
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2024-01-24
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This is the most unreliable Internet I have ever had and we live in Reigate in Redhill, which is not far from major connections. Do not buy this. If you’re counting on stable Internet, need to work from home or do conference calls. Please also be aware that for some reason they put on parental controls that you only can have removed if you go to the shop. Do not buy this product. It’s crap.
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- Rg18 4nr
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2018-08-07
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- Rhyl
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2022-04-30
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- River
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-02-11
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Finally cut ties with Sky after many painful expensive years. Loved the idea of broadband w/o a landline. Never used it otherwise. Really impressed for the first 3mths on 3's pay monthly home broadband deal, just to try it out. Easy setup and great fast reliable streaming at the beginning. Rarely dropped a stream for three months. So we decided to take on a 12mth contract. Another precaution because we didn't want to get 'trapped' in any more long life-sucking contracts. Of course customer service pushed real hard for us to go for a 24mth contract instead. But I stood firm and said "No thanks!". So we stuck with the 12mth one. Well since the contract started, streaming speeds have slowed and become very inconsistent. We counted the stream drop during TV programs at least 10x during one day. That was on every device used at that time with our Huawei 4G Router 3 Pro, supposedly able to handle up to 65 devices at once. We sometimes use up to 4 at the same time. That's it. We even moved the router around and saw some improvement but only for a short while. I have a mobile with 3 and it's signal and stream are much more reliable. Why is that?? I don't hold much hope out for any vast improvement in the coming months and 3's customer service has proved to be frustrating and unhelpful. I wish somehow we could get out of it. Highly unlikely I know. But on the bright side at least it's not for 24mths. We definitely will chose someone else when this nightmare ends. I highly do NOT recommend 3 for home broadband to anybody. There are far more reliable ones out there.
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- Runcorn
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-03-03
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I can only say the same as others have, 'how I wish I had read more reveiws. The broadband service is diabolical at best, can not connect, slow unusable, then I found if you add a DNS server manually it does change things, it seems the router does not do what it is designed to do, I.E route, so, go online and search for free DNS, pick a couple of DNS ip addresses and go in to the IP address settings in your PC / Laptop/ Phone etc click manual DNS and add some DNS IP addresses, this speeds up the broadband connection on a pc. It worked for me.
The three mobile broadband service is awful though, nothing can fix that.
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- s yorks
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2021-03-27
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joined 3 several years ago and was initially reasonably happy with the mobile broadband service which l utilised at work. Moved jobs recently and decided to quit 3 as the coverage poor in the Peak District. That's when the hassle began. l contacted 3 via the net to cancel what had become a simple rolling monthly contract and waited for a final bill that failed to arrive. lnstead l received a letter from a debt collection agency stating that my account was in arrears and that my credit rating would be ruined if payment was not made. A few days later a bill from 3 appeared which l paid, but l still find myself pursued by the debt collectors while attempting to resolve the issue directly with 3 who seem utterly clueless. my advice is to steer well clear of 3.
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- S.Wales
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-04-11
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To follow up from my previous review, I found that changing my routers settings from Auto 3g+4g, to 3g only, made a huge difference to my usage speed. No longer is the router box scratching its head whether to use the sketchy 4g signal that I have in my area or the strong 3g one thats there. Still need xbox compatibility tho before im truly happy with the service and Im still waiting to hear from them.. (if at all, as rumours suggest theyre huawei boxes just arent powerful enough to deliver) So come on Three.. Prove us wrong, pls!
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- S.Wales
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-03-29
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I have strong signal in my area but the problem is the Huawei router is quite unresponsive. When it works its blazing fast, but after just a short time of idle, you need to keep refreshing browser page etc to get the router box to wake up and start moving again. Beware also.. Its not compatible with XBOX and so my son cant get updates for his system or games to run (three said they are working on it)and for this reason Ive had to keep with my old internet providers and am now paying two subscriptions. To sum it up.. Whole family been with three for donkeys years (for telephones) and truth is we really like them. Im sure in time these issues will get sorted, but for now, they are not a feesable home broadband provider.
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- Salford
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- Three Mobile
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- 2020-01-31
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Got the mobile broadband for a 12months contract. It's been poor for the last 6 months and when I finally decided to cancel they managed to talk me into it again promising a new device type after a dozen hours wasted on customer service. They sent me the same device with service beeing as poor as before. The mocking they handled my situation is incredible, all they've done is to waste my time again and again. Just now I told the guy in the live chat I just want to cancel and not waste any of my time, he asked to speak on the phone, told him I can't and I gave permission for somebody else to finish the process. They called the other person just to waste another 5 minutes with details verification and conclude that nothing can be done without the main person on the contract on the phone. I have never heard of anything similar before, Customer Service seems like a bunch of incompetents running a scam from their basement. Insane mocking and disrespect to me as a customer. Of course, I'll have to pay the full contract anyway,no matter how bad the service was for the usage period. They don't even have a capable technical team, when they called to troubleshoot my device they asked 0 tehnical questions just basic, irelevant settings matters. Insane that this company is running a bussiness in UK. Never felt more disrespected on my own dime. Don't get the service.
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- Salford
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2020-06-04
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- scarborough
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- Three Mobile
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- 2022-12-24
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Hi all,i would like to tell you about my experience with three broadband.it is bad,bad is not the word to describe it.it is diabolical.i've had it since april and have had nothing but trouble with it,ill give you all a warning just what you can expect,i did an speed test this morning,i hope you are all sitting comfortably.right download speed,1-48mps upload speed 5-24mps.with VPN on.download speed 4-10 mps,upload speed 3-98mps without VPN on,how's that for speed,some people on these sites say there are getting over 100s off mbps i just don't see it.on my three broadband you cannot run anything properly at the speeds i've shown you. nothing works properly at all,smart TV,PC,security cameras,and as for the customers services just don`t bother they are so bad it`s hard to describe.so i will tell you all keep clear of this company as you will regret it
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- Scotland
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-10-19
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Non stop loss of service. Dreadful customer dervice
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- Scotland
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
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- 2023-03-04
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At first my mobile broadband was good. For weeks now it is pretty much non existent. I called 3 to ask why my mobile broadband connection was so incredibly slow. In the end of the call an agent at 3 told me they would investigate and call me back within 7 days. They never did call me back. I Still have a rubbish connection. Also it's is very hard to understand the people they have on the other end of the phone. Its all quite rubbish and I'm still left with a super slow connection. The live chat never seems to work either.
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- Scunthorpe
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2017-10-07
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Mobile 3 is totally unacceptable company please beware!! They will scam you with lies and you will have bailiffs knocking at your door as they are trying to do to my mother at the age of over 80 ... stay away from the insurance they other also as the scam is they replace your phone then no give you a return package then they scam £350 from the card you give for the £100 they requested to charge as the fee for replacement... I which l had purchased from VODAPHONE as people warned me of the scams from 3 MOBILE...STAY AWAY FROM 3 MOBILE OR YOU WILL REGRET..!!!
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- Scunthorpe
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2017-10-03
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Don't get scammed STAY AWAY " 3 MOBILE " & " 3 RESCUE INSURANCE "
Total SCAM " 3 mobile Rescue & 3 mobile " do not trust a word this company sales ... I purchased new phone and insurance damaged my phone and received a new one after many issues with 3 Rescue, when received they did not have a return package package and I requested many times and this was a month ago... know they are going to charge me £350 because phone not returned and even on my emails and calls they agree it's there fault ... I spoke to 3 Mobile for help and they just say it's not there problem 3 RESCUE INSURANCE is not part of there company even though they sold me the insurance...TOTAL SCAM STAY AWAY FROM 3 MOBILE AND 3 RESCUE THEY WILL SCAM YOU AND THERE CALLS ARE HIGH PREMIUM NUMBERS... !!!! I wish I picked VODAPHONE ( I have put recordings of the SCAM ON YOUTUBE & FACEBOOK ) every day posting ...
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- Sheffield
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2020-02-11
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Broadband speed is very slow and inconsistent.
Customer Service have no I sea how to deal with customers.
Would I recommend Three. HELL NO.
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- Sheffield
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2021-01-05
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If I could give no stars I would! Shocking speeds and even worse customer service.
I live in Sheffield city centre and don’t have access to fibre broadband, so the fastest speed any provider can guarantee is 6 mbps which is fairly slow. I saw that Three were claiming much faster speeds so decided to give it a go! Oh how I wish I’d read the reviews beforehand..
It worked straight away out of the box which is about the only good thing. The speed fluctuated between fairly quick and unusably slow almost every 5 minutes. Tried the router all over the house to no avail. After a while, it settled on about 0.7 mbps which it never really changed from, despite showing full signal and 4G.
I purchased this in the Three store which doesn’t offer the same returns guarantee as online, however the store manager agreed to honour the 30 days and authorised it in my contract in case I changed my mind, and with lockdown looming (and closed shops) I was told I would be able to cancel on the phone.
This is where it gets even worse.. after being pinged around from pillar to post between various departments, I was told on the phone that they can’t authorise returns on the phone for products bought in store, and only the technical team would be able to do this based on the dreadful speed. After finally getting through to the technical team, they said I would only even be considered for a refund once they had conducted a weeklong troubleshooting investigation, and if the outcome of that was that they didn’t agree with my issues, there would be no refund. Feeling untold levels of dispair and betrayal about having been lied to in order to get me signed up in the shop (which had now closed because of lockdown), I opened a complaint in the online chat. After royally kicking off, the agent managed to honour my cancellation despite making a big song and dance about how it was outside of process and they were only making the exception as a goodwill gesture.
Moral of the story.. DON’T BE SUCKED IN BY THE PROPOSED SPEEDS! Like most of these reviewers’ experiences, mine was dreadful. The customer service is abysmal too.
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- Sheffield
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2023-07-22
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Worst network broadband and mobile data both from three. Even zero is not worthy given this company. Customer service took 20 mints over the phone trying to figure out which post code I am in. We are not getting the service that we paid for. We must take this company to court. We are paying monthly without getting just average net.
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- Sheffield
- Reviewing
- Three Mobile
- Date
- 2021-12-25
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Had it for 8 months, generally reliable with around 30 to 45 average mbs download, and I am on the edge of the city in semi rural area. Has lost Internet twice in 8 months for about 12 hours each time, but 98% of the time it's fine. Plug and play, better than slow old phone broadband that only gave 2mbs here.
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