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Earake
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Has anybody dispensed with their BT landline telephone and broadband in favour of mobile phones and MiFi using 4G, if so what are their experiences.
With the latest BT increases, it would seem possible to economically do away with BT completely.
With the latest BT increases, it would seem possible to economically do away with BT completely.
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It costs a bit more than BT internet but is so worth it and I actually pay less as I don't have the land line to pay for. I have a £10 month mobile contract which gives me unlimited txts and enough minutes and don't miss BT at all!
Things are a bit different now that FTTC is here and I know I can get FTTC and landline for just above the price I am paying now and would get another 15Mb/s on top of the ten I got now.
But if you are going wireless then you need to look at the pros and cons, it may all seem nice and no line rental, but depending on what is available in your area wireless wise, you may be paying more for less.
But so far for the two years I have been with my provider the price have not gone up, line rental gone up a few times since then. so I will be staying put unless I got a reason to change.
That would be expensive unless you only use it now and again. as artesea said there are some providers that uses the 4G network for broadband, but it depends on where you live.
I use VoIP, landline well and truly disconnected.
Personally I have TalkTalk Fibre (40/2) it comes in at under £30 a month and the phone is only used for inbound calls as both the wife and I have unlimited calls on our mobiles.
OK if you're in the London area !
With unlimited or near unlimited mobile packages, 4G or EE's 4G+ MiFi will soon become a viable replacement for a landline phone+broadband service.
TalkTalk offer unlimited ADSL for under £20 (assuming you never use the phone line part of the service), and for an extra £10 they throw in fibre. So as a minimum I would want 100GB with 4G speeds at for no more than £30.
What would worry me most about 4G is that it's inherently a shared connection. It may be very fast now with the limited take-up, but will it still be fast in 3-4 years when lots of users are trying to share the only 4G cell in your town/village at 8pm in the evening? I can see it being useful on the move, but outside of big cities I wouldn't expect it to be a good full-time domestic option unless the 4G suppliers build a lot of infrastructure. That will have an inevitable effect on the price.
@SteveMcK >>>>>> "5G" will probably be here by 2020.
Not yet, but a few years back, in a different property, I had 3G only for about a year.
I used a 3G dongle on the end of a USB cable, connected to a laptop with ICS turned on, connected to a router in bridge mode to share the 3G over wifi.
So much easier now, with MiFIs!
I took out a fixed broadband connection later on as I needed a higher limit and more permanent connection for work.
I can get just under 30 Mbps down on EE in the day, three out of five bars - but it can go down to 3 Mbps in the evening. Still better than my BT line!