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My 3 g tracker is being turned off with with the closing down of 3G , any recommendations 4g payg replacement
 
Trutrak: https://www.trutrak.co.uk

Had mine 4 years and very pleased, especially customer service. They have even phoned me as a reminder when my top-up is about to expire. Mine is 2g but they have an offer to upgrade to 4g for no charge.
If starting out with them you would go straight for the 4g models.
 
Don't rush out to buy a replacement until after 3G is turned off.
I have a GP104 model from Rewire which is about 10 year old.
Giffgaff, whose SIM is installed informed me that the device would no longer work when 3G is switched off.
I contacted Rewire who give me lifetime service. They said the device should continue to work with 2G.
I also own a Motorola phone. Smarty (Three) told me the phone would not function properly when 3G switched off. I upgraded to a 5G Motorola phone, despite rarely being in a 5G area. Pretty annoyed to find my old phone works perfectly well with 4G and 2G signals. It has a Lebara (Vodafone) SIM installed.
The only upside is the old phone acts as a backup in the van with 30gb data each month when in the EU.

Davy
 
TeamRienza said:
Don't rush out to buy a replacement until after 3G is turned off.
I have a GP104 model from Rewire which is about 10 year old.
Giffgaff, whose SIM is installed informed me that the device would no longer work when 3G is switched off.
I contacted Rewire who give me lifetime service. They said the device should continue to work with 2G.
I also own a Motorola phone. Smarty (Three) told me the phone would not function properly when 3G switched off. I upgraded to a 5G Motorola phone, despite rarely being in a 5G area. Pretty annoyed to find my old phone works perfectly well with 4G and 2G signals. It has a Lebara (Vodafone) SIM installed.
The only upside is the old phone acts as a backup in the van with 30gb data each month when in the EU.

Davy
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Yes, if the 3G tracker will also work on 2G, that could be an option. I believe that 2G has all pretty much been switched off in France, but 3G will continue there until 2028/2029. 2G will be switched off in UK 2029-2033.
As for mobile phones, Smarty may have been right that the Motorola phone, would not function properly ON THEIR NETWORK when 3G was switched off. My partner's phone did not support VOLTE and she ignored warnings, then one day she could no longer make or receive calls and switched to RWG (EE network), as I had already done. With RWG, our phones could make and receive calls on 2G, but there were sometimes issues with insufficient 2G capacity, meaning that sometimes it was not possible to call out and often incoming calls went to voicemail when there was signal and the phone could have been answered if it had rung. We now both have upgraded phones (5G), which appears to have solved that issue. Additionally, it was not possible to use 4G mobile data while on a 2G voice call, a minor issue for us, but potential occasional inconvenience.
 
Be careful with RWG mobile! Customer service is nonexistent. I closed my account in October, moved our 2 numbers to spusu, where humans react when approached with any requests.
I have emailed RWG 3 times and received 2 acknowledgement emails in return, to ask for a refund of the monthly payments they continue to take from my credit card. Their promises to make a sensible reply have produced no other action.
 
Winterskp said:
Be careful with RWG mobile! Customer service is nonexistent. I closed my account in October, moved our 2 numbers to spusu, where humans react when approached with any requests.
I have emailed RWG 3 times and received 2 acknowledgement emails in return, to ask for a refund of the monthly payments they continue to take from my credit card. Their promises to make a sensible reply have produced no other action.
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Thanks for the warning. I ported my phone away from RWG at the beginning of this month, expecting that this would cancel the subscription. However, I logged in to their web portal today and the subscription status was shown as "Active", so I used the relevant button to cancel it. Have you done this? As a belt and braces operation, I also contacted my credit card company and instructed them to cancel the continuous payment authority. Have you done this? Because if so, the credit card company should be refunding you.
 
Got me thinking of my tracker its only a tk103 I have had for years but been ok and accurate its only 2g. So had a look at what 2g coverage is in france as it worked last year. And it looks like I will get away with it another trip but it says france is to switch off 2g by december 2026. So will need a new one also.

Mike
 
mikejay said:
Got me thinking of my tracker its only a tk103 I have had for years but been ok and accurate its only 2g. So had a look at what 2g coverage is in france as it worked last year. And it looks like I will get away with it another trip but it says france is to switch off 2g by december 2026. So will need a new one also.

Mike
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"May get away with it" could be right. The switch-off by Orange commences in March 2026 in some areas. SFR and Bouygues Telecom are indicating end 2026 (contrary to what I thought in my post earlier this month), but one wonders whether that is a nationwide switch-off in one go, or whether it will be progressive leading toward that date. I decided not to risk it and upgraded from 2G last summer.
 
TJBi said:
Thanks for the warning. I ported my phone away from RWG at the beginning of this month, expecting that this would cancel the subscription. However, I logged in to their web portal today and the subscription status was shown as "Active", so I used the relevant button to cancel it. Have you done this? As a belt and braces operation, I also contacted my credit card company and instructed them to cancel the continuous payment authority. Have you done this? Because if so, the credit card company should be refunding you.
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Alas, I ported the number, then cancelled my accounts. I can no longer log in to contact them. They took another month's payments yesterday!
I was able to get through to the card company (Tesco bank) yesterday and am told that RWG are now blocked for the future. We shall see!

As far as a chargeback's concerned, Tesco want so much detail that the sums involved hardly warrant the faff. Different story when I wanted a chargeback from Halifax: one phone call and it was sorted. But then, they don't give Tesco clubcard points!
 
We have* several trackers still on 2G and they are working just fine. Never had any 3G ones, though.

Bizarrely, two of them are not: since some time in Dec 2025 they've been reporting the date wrongly, initially in 2019, now only a few weeks out. I dont think it's a mobile network issue, but I really don't know what it is.

Many of the trackers are the 4G equivalent model, and experience shows that the 4G coverage is much, much better than the 2G coverage in identical places.

*Most of the trackers are not ours: we run a tracker server and most of the trackers devices belong to clients.
 
Winterskp said:
Be careful with RWG mobile! Customer service is nonexistent. I closed my account in October, moved our 2 numbers to spusu, where humans react when approached with any requests.
I have emailed RWG 3 times and received 2 acknowledgement emails in return, to ask for a refund of the monthly payments they continue to take from my credit card. Their promises to make a sensible reply have produced no other action.
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Been using rwg for years, particularly for trackers. A one-off payment of £16 for five years service is unbeatable.
Yes, their support is slow (particularly for number porting) and more worryingly sometimes texts don't send first time, but the EE coverage and speed is excellent, and some of their deals are unbeatable on price.
 
Winterskp said:
Alas, I ported the number, then cancelled my accounts. I can no longer log in to contact them. They took another month's payments yesterday!
I was able to get through to the card company (Tesco bank) yesterday and am told that RWG are now blocked for the future. We shall see!

As far as a chargeback's concerned, Tesco want so much detail that the sums involved hardly warrant the faff. Different story when I wanted a chargeback from Halifax: one phone call and it was sorted. But then, they don't give Tesco clubcard points!
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Do it anyway, I would imagine they make it difficult hoping people won't want the hassle of chasing.
 
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