Mobile Broadband

We currently have unlimited BT broadband with landline and calls (landline only). Costs us £56 a month or £672 a year.

Ecotalk (using EE) have 60gb data plus unlimited calls and texts for £23 a month or £276 a year.

I've invested £16 for 30gb as a test to see how it goes. I've turned it on tonight and so far so good. I will need to see how it handles Zoom meetings and whatsapp calls.

Does anyone use purely mobile connections and are their any problems with this set up? Generally 2 computers and a pay as you go phone is most connected and a printer/copy/scanner.

I've just renegotiated my contract with BT after it expired. Its been reduced from £55.69 to £39.99 and I pay £5 for 500 minutes of calls to landline or mobile. At least, that's what they agreed to but they didn't start it on the date agreed so they've just given me £40 compensation and - if the contract hasn't started by next week, I'll be hassling them for more compensation.

Its worth having a chat with BT if you're thinking of leaving. I don't use a mobile phone so have no ideas about them.

Hi Mark. I know a couple of households who use mobile broadband because they are remote and have no fibre to the building and it seems to work fine for them. I suppose it's all down to how strong and reliable the carrier signal is.

We use just mobile broadband & phone. Broadband is with EE, phone is with, can’t remember now but the calls ( like Skype, but not Skype) come in over the internet but to the same number as our landline. Obviously it’s all going to be very different up here to what you’re able to do. I don’t really understand it and care even less as long as it works   . 
After 12 months of using it , on the whole it’s been good, more reliable than BT and much much faster. The phone is a bit cr@p , but no one phones me, so I don’t care   . 

Bob deals with all this stuff . Shout if you want more detail, I’ll get him on here. He’s been setting people up with it all round the island. 4 properties just in the village ( 50% of the permanent residents)

P says he screwed BT down for our FTTP (fibre) to around £32.31 a month for 700 mins UK landline/mobile calls and broadband (25.31 broadband + 7.00 calls). I remember BT have a specialist team for people who are leaving and to definitely not pay what they ask. We only stay with BT because with their hotspots we can have internet at our flat in IOW without any wiring. Dont ask me to explain, it definitely isn't my department. . They also say it will increase each year by CPI plus some 3%, which is really greedy.

I changed to sky a couple of weeks ago, I haven't a clue about half the things you mention all I went for was free phone calls and broadband garunteed in any room speed double what I had with EE but that's really unimportant to me, more important is the fact I got it cheaper. £30.

I'm using a mobile broadband dongle in my laptop now - it's a Vodafone dongle and I'm paying £32/month for unlimited broadband. There is WiFi in the staff accommodation, but it's just the hospital guest WiFi that is unsecured and on which I'm not supposed to stream/download anything, play games, or access certain sites (nothing dodgy, but things like Pick My Postcode are blocked as it's considered gambling, even though it costs nothing but a few minutes of time to win).

I can easily stream Amazon Prime (including HD) and YouTube videos, download new games, play games needing an internet connection (though it wouldn't be quite good enough for high-level competitive FPS games) and so on. I'm pretty happy with it. If I were going to invest again, I would probably go for a mobile modem rather than a dongle, so I could connect multiple devices. As it is, when I move into a house I'll probably go back to regular broadband as it will be so much cheaper.

Veggie - is that what you are paying per month?!! If so, I hope that includes line rental, but it still seems quite pricey! If you aren't getting line rental, it's absolutely extortionate!

Yes, Pros, that's everything. Its Full fibre to the property, 100mbps guaranteed (whatever they are). Also includes Call blocking, number display and all that stuff.
I could get it cheaper, but not the speed and, if I changed provider I have to change a lot of my email addresses. Basically, I'm happy with what I have and don't want to step out of my comfort zone for the sake of a few pounds and, maybe, a lot of hassle.

Yes, Pros, that's everything. Its Full fibre to the property, 100mbps guaranteed (whatever they are). Also includes Call blocking, number display and all that stuff.
I could get it cheaper, but not the speed and, if I changed provider I have to change a lot of my email addresses. Basically, I'm happy with what I have and don't want to step out of my comfort zone for the sake of a few pounds and, maybe, a lot of hassle.

Difference between BT landline/broadband and ecotalk is £400 a year, some others are a bit cheaper. Supposed to be full fibre to property with BT but didn't notice any difference really when it went from copper to fibre for what I do. I have several email addresses. One I use when buying stuff. That fills up with spam and one I use myself. Getting a new email address can be useful, you can give it to people you want to keep in touch with and leave the rest behind.

I've bought a mobile for £100 that is just in the living room. When the sim arrived in the post, it took about 10minutes to set up: put the sim in, press a button and set a few things (password and email address mainly), then set up a hotspot and that was it. Not a lot of hassle at all. I was surprised at how easy it was.

I'll keep my small pay as you go to take with me if we ever go out again. I've put £20 on it in the last 12 months or so (and got £23 credit still).

The main thing I need to check is that it will handle Zoom calls. I have one coming up next week so will see then if not before.