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If you can’t stomach the thought of forking out for a 4G phone, then a portable hotspot or dongle is the next best thing, even with restrictive data caps. Now EE’s given you a bit more data to play with, boosting the top cap from 5GB to 8GB. Still not plentiful, but better than nothing.
The plans start at £16 a month, which now packs 3GB of data up from just 2GB, with the top 8GB plan costing you £26 a month. That’s not actually too bad, considering most other mobile broadband-only plans are pretty costly on their own, and 8GB on a phone will set you back considerably more. Maybe a 4G MiFi is the way forward? [Zdnet]
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Presumably for EE to make a change to their offering that benefits the customer (e.g. more data with no price increase), they have not been signing up customers as quickly as they had hoped. I’ve got my fingers crossed that improvements to their mobile phone SIM only tariffs will not be too far behind this… £31 for 5 Gb of data would probably be enough for them to hook me in for a 12 month contract.
Although saying that I’m on Three at the moment, have unlimited data, and per my most recent speed test am pulling down data at 8.6 Mbps in my office in central London. Damn the fact I’m drawn to new tech! The draw of EE is entirely irrational, I’m conscious it is irrational, and yet I’m still half tempted to jump ship.
Don’t you have a WiFi connection in your office? If you had fiber in your office you would get even faster speeds than 4G.
That all depends on the speed of the fibre connection…
4G will soon be superseeded by 5G which will be using our old analogue TV frequency’s spectrum (800mhz)… but in about 5 – 6 years lol.