Four weeks in Italy, France, Switzerland, Ireland — 3 UK SIM best?

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No there is no catch. I am a three customer myself who benefits regularly from this perk.

However I do believe you need to be a three customer for 1 full month before you can start benefiting from the 'Feel at Home' offer although I cannot find any sources regarding this so it may have expired. They do also say that it is designed for UK residents but I am not sure if they check this through (not sure if you are a resident or not) and it is not compatible with the 'Essentials plan'

The only thing I would be wary of is buying a SIM card from eBay. What benefit would you get over buying from three directly?

The link you posted has all the available information about the offer.

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If you are looking for a roaming data service without any explicit speed constraints a good value is a Google Project Fi SIM, which charges a flat US$10/GB for data everywhere it works, on LTE/4G where available. The drawback is you need someone in the US willing to acquire it for you, but if you have that the roaming data service is quite good.

I use Three in Europe because its service includes voice minutes and I use them. For data Project Fi is better.

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Flyertalk points out these two articles https://jmcomms.com/2015/11/02/sort-it-out-three-using-data-abroad-feels-nothing-like-at-home/ https://jmcomms.com/2015/11/05/three-admits-it-slows-data-for-roamers-so-where-do-we-go-from-here/ which points out Three UK throttling very heavily when abroad:

On a short trip to Germany last week, I forgot to install the British Airways app to check in for my flight home. The app isn’t massive (it’s around 24MB), but it took the best part of 10 minutes to download.

Three sort of acknowledges:

We have put a number of steps in place to ensure the majority of customers are able to fully enjoy the most popular services when on holiday abroad on their handset like Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps and web browsing. Hopefully that clears things up.

So that 12GB? That's sort of pointless. I will try to put on pretty red socks and see whether they throttle that and report back in September.

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