Compare the Market is a trading name of Compare The Market Limited. Registered in England No. 10636682. Registered Office: Pegasus House, Bakewell Road, Orton Southgate, Peterborough, PE2 6YS. Compare The Market Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for insurance distribution (Firm Reference Number: 778488). Energy and Digital products are not regulated by the FCA. EE offers a variety of unlimited data SIM Only plans, on a choice of 24-month, 12-month, or 1-month plans. Typically, you’ll pay less per month on longer contracts, but of course you’re also committed for longer. All of these plans also come with unlimited minutes and texts. EE, Vodafone, O2 and a few other networks find their best price points in 12 months or higher. Get to the 24 month mark and your price will fall in return for a longer commitment. Which network offer unlimited data and which is best?

Full Works SIM: Includes access to uncapped speeds, 3 Inclusive Extras, Data Gifting and upgrade anytime. Vodafone has unlimited data but to get a good price, you'll have to have imposed speed restrictions or commit to a two-year contract. EE too has unlimited data but charges some big prices to get it.There are also plans that come with Apple One, which bundles subscriptions to Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, Apple Arcade, and includes 50GB of iCloud+ storage. EE offers a 5G unlimited data plan with inclusive Smart Benefits like Apple Music or BT Sport. There’s a 600GB fair use limit and personal hotspot on 12 devices. There is a small premium to pay for choosing EE, but the network offers highaverage speeds and has more widespread coverage than mostrivals. There are some slight fair usage terms though, which you can see in the ‘unlimited data fair use policies’ chart elsewhere in this article. Lebara– uses the Vodafone network and offers 100 International mins to 42 countries in its 30-day unlimited plan or to 44 countries in its 12-month unlimited plan. There are some restrictions with the 100GB Always On goodybag though, with only the first 100GB of use per month being at full speeds. After that, speeds are capped at 384kbps between 8am and midnight, which is quite slow.You can tether, but the same speed restrictions apply.

Once you know when your contract is finishing and you've got your new deal, you need to decide if you want to keep your number. If so, you can request a PAC code (Porting Authorisation Code) from your old network. This can be done via the phone or through a text. Stay Connected Data: If you have a capped data allowance (i.e. not an unlimited data plan) once you have used up your monthly data allowance your speed will be capped at 0.5Mbps. You will regain access to our fastest speeds upon (1) renewal of your monthly plan allowance, (2) by buying one of our data add-ons, or (3) If you are gifted data by someone else in your family account. Once the data add-on or gifted data runs out, you will return to the capped speed. Not available with No Frills plans. At the time of writing, all networks with unlimited data plans offer 5G, so you can potentially get the maximum available speeds in the UK.Lots of other networks offers unlimited data plans, including Three, O2, Vodafone, Asda Mobile, Giffgaff, iD Mobile, Lebara, Lyca Mobile, Smarty, Tesco Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and VOXI. Lyca Mobile, which uses O2's network, has launched unlimited data plans, and these also give you unlimited minutes and texts. The following table shows a side-by-side comparison of unlimited data plans on UK mobile networks: Network Tesco Mobile, which uses O2's network, offers unlimited data on both SIM Only and Pay Monthly, and it supports 5G.

If you’re a BT Broadband customer with a BT Halo plan, you’ll normally be better off getting unlimited data from BT Mobile instead. Three offers truly unlimited dataon SIM Only, Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go phone plans, as well as unlimited Mobile Broadbandplans. For the average person, unlimited data is going to be an excess. With publicly available Wi-Fi in just about every shop, cafe and business, finding yourself without internet is becoming rarer and rarer. Stay Connected Data: If you have a capped data allowance (i.e. not an unlimited data plan) once you have used up your monthly data allowance your speed will be capped at 0.5Mbps. You will regain access to our fastest speeds upon (1) renewal of your monthly plan allowance, (2) by buying one of our data add-ons, or (3) If you are gifted data by someone else in your family account. Once the data add-on or gifted data runs out, you will return to the capped speed until your monthly plan allowance has renewed. Not available with No Frills plans. Virgin Mobile, which uses O2’s network, also offers unlimited data, and while this used to only be available to customers of other Virgin products, it’s now available to everyone at the time of writing.

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There’s also a variable fair use limit on data when roaming, which depends on the cost of your plan. You can find it here.