land line or not?

For reference, my current Vodafone SIM only deal (with a couple of SIMs/numbers) is unlimited minutes / unlimited texts / 20 GB data for £13.80+VAT per month.

Signed up to this in January on a 12 month deal. It was 20% discount off the rack rate. Previous years they've had me at 25% discount (but to be fair this was a begging, please stay discount, 'coz they goofed up my previous upgrade big stylee)

Just checked the lay of the land with them today, so to speak, as can officially "upgrade" plans from end of the month. The 20% discount applies for another year beyond my official end of contract, so January 2020. Which is a good thing as they can't better the plan price on their current rack rates! So downgrade rather than upgrade. Oh well.

Best to check every so often, as some of these deals especially on SIM only come and go.
Excellent result and I will follow it up.
To those that have land lines, WHY?
Use a Nokia (best reception) say Lumia and you can use it as your home phone and router, handles 8 devices.
4G signal and when BT say it takes 6gig to watch a football match on stream you can tell them they are havin a laugh.
 
To be fair the performance you can get now from 4G is pretty darn impressive, speeds and ping times often way better than copper.

Other than perhaps G.fast (for the very lucky few and I mean very few) the upload/download speeds on 4G will nail most copper-based broadband to the wall.

The biggest issue 4G has is cost it must be said...although there are decent deals to be had; like the Virgin Mobile SIM-only deal a week or two ago, 100 GB, 5000 minutes and unlimited txts for £20 inc / month on a 12 month deal - and yes you can use the SIM in a router or whatever device you want.

Just reading that the worlds very first 5G network has gone live in the states as of last week, courtesy of Verizon. 5G will be like 4G but on double-strength steroids. Data speeds of 1.4 Gigabits/sec mooted on 5G. :eek:
 

Farma Parma

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Arable Farmer
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He lives in the Borders ffs . hardly a magnet for any provider .
Wont matter where you live iam 300m from Voda/02 mast here & dont use it for anything.
But you can get 3-4G on all networks here now. all other Masts are within 2 to 2.5miles & all line of sight to the farm.
I use 3 & the other half is on EE they both use the same masts !!
+ Being near the A1 makes all the difference for phone networks id say
 

bobk

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Location
stafford
Wont matter where you live iam 300m from Voda/02 mast here & dont use it for anything.
But you can get 3-4G on all networks here now. all other Masts are within 2 to 2.5miles & all line of sight to the farm.
I use 3 & the other half is on EE they both use the same masts !!
+ Being near the A1 makes all the difference for phone networks id say


Just contradicted yourself
 

Farma Parma

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
infact if i do a 360 here i can probs see 7 phone masts. all within 4miles of here.
But most have been there for a lot of years.
This Voda one in field here was only upgraded from 2G to full 4G a year a go
 

Farma Parma

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
ive had mobile signal here since the mid 90's & that was off a hefty comms mast on the moors west of here about 4miles away long before any of the smaller masts were even thought about that follow the main roads.
 

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