Smarty for mobile any good?
 

Has anyone used Smarty and what are their thoughts on the service?

I'm currently on THREE and I want to stay on this network which Smarty uses so I'm considering taking the £10 a month plan out.

https://smarty.co.uk/#plans

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As you rightly say they are Three so one would assume they will just be the same as Three. There plans are really competitive too

It is a shame they do not do data in a block as I would consider buying a couple of hundred gig for when/if the power cuts this winter

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If it cuts out you could then sleep more or just snap up the £10 for £50 gig plan or £20 for unlimited. :D

Assuming the mast doesn't cut out too.

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I've been with Smarty for about a year, £12pm for 100gb plus unlimited minutes and text, and 5G. I've not had any problems with them, porting my old number took about a day and a half. The app is really good. I also got a free month for recommending a friend, they got a free month too.

Customer service is excellent.
They offered me unlimited data / min and txt for £18pm. And there's no long contracts, just pay monthly, cancel when you like.

By-the-way, use my referral link if you fancy a £10 gift card, we'll both get a choice of a Gift Card from Amazon.co.uk, John Lewis Partnership or Uber..

https://i.smarty.co.uk/UZbvkkx

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Cheers Jimmy I will do that, think I'll sign up over the weekend to the £10 for 50gig offer for 12 months, then it drops to 30 which should be plenty.

Remind me, when I give Smarty my PAC code will my Three automatically close and stop debiting me?

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when the switch is complete the old account should close

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Thanks Jay.

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Yeah, I think I just sent a number to Three by text and it automatically sent my pac code, then Smarty took care of everything else, I didn't have any other contact with Three after that.

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All signed up to the 30gig+20gig plan for £10 a month using your referral code.

If a better offer comes along at Smarty in the future is it easy to move onto that?

I'm currently paying around £24 a month for a 3 unlimited so it's a good saving.

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Nice one SnoopZ, we should have the vouchers within 14 days. :tu:

yeah, any change of plan normally changes over at your next bill date, I changed from 50gig to 100gig for the same price, £12pm. They always let you know by text and email when there are offers available.

I'm sure you'll be happy with them, I moved from Three, was with them for about 4 years, and even though Smarty use their network, Smarty just seem to do everything better. The app is a doddle to use. 5G works fine when I'm within range too.

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All sounds far too pricy for me. ASDA mobile (aka vodafone) for £5 a month gives me all I need.

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Your plan would be far to limiting for my needs, 3gig isn't enough for my internet music/radio in the car and live traffic on an Android Auto satnav along with using it at work, also no 5g and it's Vodafone which is none existing here.

You could save £1 a month with Smarty and get 5g and 4gig, then spend it on your energy bill. :D

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Have used Three and Smarty (and others) where I am - no issues with Smarty when joining, cancelling, rejoining etc.

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Thanks it's great I can change to another deal easily, WiFi calling is important here as the signal isn't great so as I know that works on Three it should be all good, great to save more money a month, just got to brave VM retentions and renegotiate that contract!

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Yea its great service and this link gets u £10 Amazon

https://i.smarty.co.uk/4J9j05

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so now we have 2 referral links on this thread. 1 fair play due to the OP gaining but now a blatant profit attempt hahaha good job this is not Facebook or Twatter as there would be hundreds by now

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Hi Jimmy, so i've just activated my sim, do i need to do anything to get this £10 Amazon gift or will i eventually see it in my email?

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Hi Snoopz, when I recommended a friend some months ago, we both got a free month, that was all done automatically. This is the first time I've claimed for the free voucher, I assume it'll be emailed/text to us within 14 days of claiming, or within 14 days of you activating the sim.

Edit

This is from the email I received after you ordered your SIM...

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Great thanks. :)

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You're welcome 🙂👍

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Just chose a £10 Amazon gift card and I think you get the same, thanks again.

So far everything has been great with Smarty for £10 a month instead of £24 with 3, I'm surprised 3 billed me again yesterday the full amount, I read it takes a while for the final bill, they better not mess it up!

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There is now an offer of 120gb for £12 if you want more.

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I didn't realise ID Mobile also used the 3 network, their offering looks to be better as you can roll over unused data.

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Hi SnoopZ, Thanks for the heads-up, I'm going to look into that.

I've already spent the gift card, bought a new 16oz hammer off Hammerzon. :D

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You can take the offer in the app but you probably know that. :D

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Just checking the app, they also have a 200gb for £17pm. I'll change over to the 140gb soon. Offer ends at 11:59 on the 15 December.

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I'm probably switching from EE to Tesco in April when my contract is up due to poor service from EE over past 2-3 months.

I know a few people on Tesco and are very happy and it will save me £16 a month even though I'm dropping from 100GB data to 40GB Data. I'm lucky if I use 10GB data out and about a month.

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Rang through to EE today after being unable to take a very important call from my doctors due to quality of line, it was breaking up. They admitted they have a mast down but wont work on it till December 1st which I said was wrong. I told her that its been on and off for around 6 month and they gave me £57 off my bill but refused to let me out of my contract.

I cant wait till my contract is up.

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can you not use wifi calling?

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My question too, WiFi calling, I use that as it's better than my mobile signal at home.

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I had to disable wi-fi calling, it kept failing calls, not tried it again since.

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My Smarty 50gb a month for £10 deal I took out 12 months ago was due to expire this month but they have extended it another 12 months without me contacting them.

I use nothing like 50gb though so I wish there was a 20gb offer for £5.

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I ported my O2 PAYG number into them as 1 I wanted to keep the number but 2 have a second data source that was cheap.

I run EE as my main daily but have the second SIM in my phone and coverage wise they are both on an equal footing to each other, both get 5G in same places, speeds have been good. I was running the Smarty SIM in my 4g router for a bit at home was getting consistent speeeds on that.

I did some testing with EE, Smarty, Three (seperate SIM to Smarty one) and O2 earlier in the year in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, EE and Smarty for me won, lots of places where O2 was lacking to the point although I was getting 4/5G the connection was not useable on O2.

I was with Three when they first launch back in the days when 3G was new and the Three network was good then, I know things dropped but looks like they are back on it and personally the Smarty deals are good.

I would quite happily recommend Smarty, as someone that relies on mobile data and has done extensive work over the years on mobile data projects I nearly moved my home connection to it from VM!

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Unfortunately my Smarty 4G is terrible where I live but I get WiFi calling on it so I've kept it as it's good at work and parents house as well as with Android Auto, EE had the better signal here it it's more expensive so I won't do that.