Refreshed EE Mobile Broadband packages

Just a quick note to those who may be interested: it looks like EE have refreshed their mobile broadband packages (the ones with the 4GEE Home Router):

4GEE Mobile Broadband Packages

They have all been reduced by £10 per month (which brings the 50Gb to 200Gb packages back to their "as launched" prices, they had risen by £10 in recent months), and they've added a 500Gb data per month option as the top-end package.

This is timely, as it ties in with a recent thread on the forum discussing EE / BT's plans for USO coverage here: http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4600972-ofc...

At least this provides larger data packages (as predicted by Andrew! - Last paragraph: http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/t/4601232-re-...).

If they drop by a further £10 per month in future, they would start to become a reasonably affordable alternative to those of us without fixed line superfast broadband.

Whilst pushing my mobile bill from £68 to nearly £100 a month for 100GB on 1 and 40GB on the other sim with a Galaxy S9+

Ouch!

Ouch indeed!

Especially as they've just dropped the 200Gb package a further £10 to £50 per month (see: https://shop.ee.co.uk/dongles/pay-monthly-mobile-bro...).

Times are getting a bit interesting for the "4G as home broadband" idea, now that Three have now removed tethering limitations as per ISPReview Article (how long will that last ?!). I've ordered a free Three SIM just for testing purposes, to try it in my 4G router - I have doubts that I can get a 4G signal here from Three (according to their coverage maps anyway, although as it's nearby, my router may pick it up - may have to try with my external omni-directional 4G antenna too, which isn't yet installed).

Anyway - with the EE price reduction on their 4GEE data, you should be able to haggle with them & negotiate a lower cost maybe - worth a try!

I won't be trying this is a mobile contract but I will be canning it at he end of the 24 months and going back to what I used to do - buy a sim only deal and get my own phone!