Three Mobile Broadband Ready to Go 3GB Preloaded Data Standard SIM for 3G Tablets

Ever since the beginning of Pay-as-you-go I have been irritated by the notion that, according to providers, it is perfectly ok to take back paid-for product that remains unused after a period. I think it is close to dishonest. What if you were to fill the tank on your car and then, a month later, had to give back any unused fuel that remained before filling it full again. Yeah, right, you'd do that, wouldn't you - not.The beauty of these 3gb 90-day 'starters' is that if you do take longer than the usual 30 days to use up your 3gb you do not lose the remainder (until you reach 3 months). Personally, I've been using broadband sims for quite a while and find that my average consumption rate is about 5 weeks to use up 3gb so instead of buying a top-up voucher I discard the sim and use a new one of these. For anybody who takes longer than 30 days to use 3gb this is the most cost-effective solution currently available. Hopefully, providers of mobile broadband will eventually catch on to the fact that consumers are not stupid and abandon time limitation entirely (as Virgin, Tesco, and probably a few others have done with PAYG phones) but sadly, I fear that it will be more likely that 3-network will withdraw this 90-day 'starter' instead - so get them while you can, folks.By the way, there's also 1gb versions that run for 30 days. Be careful about the way these are sold though. I recently bought a couple of these as they were advertised at £0.10 plus p&p and I figured that if I bought more than one, the p&p would cover both because there's only one delivery - wrong, I still got charged p&p on each so if you go down this route you need to add the advertised price and the p&p together to get at the real cost. It's still very good value though, especially if you only need a short burst of use.

Love this. I visit the UK every 9 months or so, Internet access can be an issue, so this time i purchased 8 of these. The sim will last for 3 months from activation but I used it alot for email, surfing and movies. Yes it is only 3 gigabites so Netfix users go into your account and reduce the quality of the video. I set mine at 0.3 g per hour of streaming.I use mine with a TP-Link M5350 modem, very easy to set up. I use the sim and modem with my ipad. I wastched a a 2 hour movies, did some email, facebooked and surfed for about 30 mins and used 0.490 gigs. I was happy with that.A great purchase if you just email and surf the net and dont want a contract, i would not recommend if you are a very heavy user and download files. Fabulous if you are like me travel and want internet access. The cost, not too bad but in all honesty i did not research that. Also i beleive this is a virgin ? mobile product but i could be wrong.

The card arrived well before stated arrival date from Amazon.I placed it into my ZTE MF60 WiFi hotspot unit and it worked.I have come back to add to my review about four weeks later after writing the above.I have now used up two SIM cards and just about to order a third. I must say I expected the first card to last 3-months - the first card lasted ONE week. Now, I did download about 20 songs from youtube and my desktop (which utilises WiFi from the SIM) downloaded about 20 microsoft upgrades. So I thought, "fair enough" - a lot of downloading has been done therefore the SIM data bank will be used up.I bought another SIM card from Amazon - again with reasonable delivery service.This time I only downloaded one song and controled microsoft updates. I did however use my desktop a lot, checking out emails and surfing the net via google for various projects. This time the SIM lasted TWO weeks.I have ordered another SIM card because the mobile hotspot unit really works well but because of the high usage of SIM cards I have also ordered an unlimitted broadband service via my landline - the MONTHLY fee for this is much less than the WEEKLY cost of using the SIM.I am going to use the mobile hotspot for work away from my office base only, from now on.Perhaps one should think twice if one is thinking of using the SIM based WiFi as a permanent source of net access.If you do, prepare yourself for fairly hefty SIM card bills - possibly.

This card works great in my mifi hotspot but the last two cards have been faulty as they have run out after a month and not the ninety days that they should have run for. Amazon replaced the first card which ran out after 24 days, but the same has happened again. Amazon are going to refund me on return of the card as they may be a faulty batch. This review would have been 5 star but the price has doubled in the last six months.