Why are you not looking at fixed line connections for her out of interest?

Mobile data is not really used as a home broadband replacement in the UK.

Generally you will get a few GB of mobile data, and use WiFi at home, provided over a BT or virginmedia cable line.

So you should be looking at things such as BT Infinity, TalkTalk Fibre, Sky Fibre, Virginmedia, PlusNet Fibre instead. Unless for whatever reason they cannot get anything decent over a fixed line.

Most deals are unlimited.

Also you think our prices are expensive, but the US and various EU countries are more pricey.

Just adding to brandscill's post here...

Also it is generally not appropriate in the UK to use mobile data for a home broadband connection, some have done it over network 3, but the mileage and results vary massively and generally it is not advised.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sat 25-Jun-16 13:31:42)

Yes, I can see that there are big differences between how the markets in the two countries are set up.
Here in Denmark, I had a cable broadband connection giving me 50Mbps download but I could only have it with an expensive TV package in which most of the channels were free ones and the others were of no interest. Irritated by these conditions, I started looking at alternatives and discovered that I can get a perfectly good TV reception from an internal aerial on the first floor, coupled with a mobile broadband connection which gives me a variable speed between 25Mbps and 35 Mbps (perfectly acceptable) with a limit of 100GB per month - so far this month my wife and I have used just over 30GB. The TV+cable link costs about £45 per month; the mobile broadband costs about £16.50 per month, so it's a no brainer. But I can see the UK is different (in more ways than one after "Independence Day" haha - joke of the week).

She says there is some problem with the cables to the house she is renting. BT want some extortionate installation fee. So I started looking at reproducing my Danish set-up but I can see that the two markets are very different.

They can't sustain these speeds on those kind of usage limits. LTE has very limited spectrum available to it, even using LTE-A bonding.

Expect to see in the near future very poor peak time speeds. Then the usage limits will get cut, or prices will go up to cover the capex of installing more cells.

The exact same thing was available to 3UK subscribers - £15/month for unlimited 3G/4G data (which was ok to use as personal hotspot).

Guess what - they ended the plans as they are getting too much contention.