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Extremely slow data speed
It has (smarty) to many customers in a lot of areas. This is also known as contention and simply put it's the same as your water it's good but would be a drip if everyone decided to use all the taps in their house on the same street. Also it makes me want to scream 3 and smarty may be on the same core network but smarty does not have access to certain beneficial frequencies and a long term three customer paying 35 40 a month is going to be provided with a better service than the one for 20 pound. Most people will accept the old Giffgaff one we are cheap because we do everything online. What's the killer though ? Pick an app Google earth say you will see after zooming in on 3d areas etc the connection will hang. After no help or reply even after months of trying to help THEM I FIGURED IT OUT. Smarty changes IP on the fly sometimes as much as every minute. This I believe in simple terms when combined with small packet data triggers a ddos attack response. I could chat for ages about issues with smarty. The simple fix for the issue I describe is to use the VPN from Google one I believe it's free of maybe a 1 pound a month this also gets you 100gb Google drive storage and some other goodies. At a pound and it giving other features it's the easiest fix until smarty acknowledge. I do believe that the issue will get better as people will simply leave!