Three is no longer to offer unlimited tethering on new 3G and 4G all-you-can-eat data plans. But to make up for it perhaps, the company will make all calls to 0800 free.
New contracts to be introduced today include data allowances from 500MB up to all-you-can-eat, with 50 mins or up to all-you-can-eat minutes, and unlimited texts. Tethering on 500MB, 1GB and 2GB plans can account for 100 percent of the data used, but on the all-you-can-eat plans tethering is now to be capped at 2GB.
Additional tethering allowance is to be sold at an additional cost.
Speaking to Wired.co.uk ahead of the announcement, due today, Three also confirmed that its popular One Plan "will no longer be available for contract handset sales".
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This may be big news for customers hoping to sign up to one of Three's all-you-can-eat contracts, which up to now permitted as much 3G and 4G downloading as a user wanted -- from multiple connected (tethered) devices, such as laptops and tablets, if they wished.
Only customers signing up to a new range of contracts are affected, and both existing customers and those signing up to SIM-only plans are unaffected. SIM-only contracts reflecting the new pricing structure will follow later this year, Wired.co.uk understands.
Of Orange, T-Mobile, EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three, only Three offers all-you-can-eat data, and does so on its recently-launched 4G network as well.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
