Since my other phone broke, I decided it was time to go with another network as Orange was very poor and their TV adverts are embarrassingly awful.

I decided to go with Three Mobile after a friend recommended them, they have a nice website and the PAYG plan seems great value for money - I ordered the sim card with £10 credit which cost £9.99 including postage (I was impressively able to specify a delivery date) the sim arrived on Wedensday however I received a 'Sorry you where out Card' from Royal Fail stating that it was too large for my letter box which I thought was very strange (how big can a sim card be?) turns out it is too large for a standard letterbox which is very strange, so if you work days be prepared to pay a visit to Royal Mail!

Aside from that everything has been brilliant.

Three Pay as You GO offer a fantastic value for money. With free Skype calls (that really work) forever, and free 3 to 3 calls, free internet allowance (150mb), free social networking (I never use this but I now is free) valid for 90 days when you top up £10, together with good, cheap, phones (I had a Skypephone 1 and a Skypephone 2 and they are always great)it makes Three the best mobile network available. Great!

First ever review, I have never bothered writing one.. until now!!

I signed up to an 18 month mobile broadband contract with three, big mistake. Whilst in the beginning the service was fine, consistently reaching download speeds of 250Kb - 300Kb per second I was happy, I was often in danger of reaching and passing my monthly bandwidth. Then I hit a snag, the speeds started to be shockingly slow (consistently less than dial up - YES DIAL UP). I thought, I'll just take the USB modem in to a shop and get it replaced, not so..

The first time I took it in they wanted to send it away (to be tested). A week passed and back it came, no problem could be found. I was not impressed to say the least, I took it home and kept plugging away. The modem did speed up and I was getting regular speeds again, till xmas 2009. For 2 months now the speeds have been very slow, in to the shop I went. A sales man sat me down, started typing away on his computer; where do you live (I told him). Oh that area has a good 3g signal there should not be a problem (no s**t sherlock!). he continued, I'm sorry but the modem will need to be sent off, not again this has been done before I said, in that case all we can offer you is an upgrade, you will need to pay an extra £15 per month to upgrade your package.. no thank you.. as I have only got a few weeks left on my contract I just walked out the shop!!

I only hope there is not a problem cancelling, as has been mentioned here!

Note, the modem does occasionaly speed up in the very early hours, which to me points towards a network that simply cannot handle the daily use it gets!

They have supplied me with two Nokia 6220 mobiles as an upgrade. As the back of both phones fell off, I returned both and they want to charge me £29.99 to repair a phone which has come straight out of the box. They refused to give me another phone and insist that I am on an 18 month new contract because I accepted an upgrade.

3g is the worst mobile provider I have ever had the misfortune to have been with there are no redeeming points. I have tried to get out of the contract since it elapsed for 3 months. They still send me bills and persue through debt collectors even though the phone does not receive calls and I don't use it. Dealing with the call centre is a joke. Even though they are in breach of contract I still cannot get the call centre to send the pack number to port to another provider. I am now going to take legal action. Warning do not take out a contract with this company!!!!