Thank you for all your advice. Will get some kind of contract; want to keep my old number.

BTW - Just been away for a few days, staying at Premier Inn, Evesham. Almost no 2G; 3G forget it. had to use Premier Inn, expensive wifi (There is Premier's free 30 minutes per day).

O2 allow tethering but of course the limit is very low so doesnt matter to them.

On my package when hitting the limit, they throttle (very heavily to make it unusable).

O2 no longer throttle they now stop all data many threads about this on the o2 community forum

maybe on new packages but not on mine, if they stopped all data they would be breaching my contract.

Tested it again today after read your post and is still a throttle down to unusable speeds.

I think I am going to move to t-mobile.

My sister found a sweet deal which I think I will be copying.

800mins, galaxy S4, unlimited 3g/4g with 2 gig of tethering included. £20 month.

I then sell my s3 as well.

When we last visited my parents was no 3g signal to be seen on O2, was very annoying, my sister was fine on t-mobile.

Three worked quite well ironically (given how bad it is in my area) was watching iplayer/netflix with it on phone, but I dont want to use a server that has no 2g presence, plus three is terrible at my address, so t-mobile seems the place for me to go.

Trust me o2 would not be in breach as all t&c for many years have had 5 options for action if going over one of them is to stop data.a thread about this on the o2 community.

Edited by deleted (Thu 17-Apr-14 08:03:11)

my contract is 9 years old. is no option on it for them to stop data.

Edited by Chrysalis (Thu 17-Apr-14 21:12:21)