In reply to a post by pluralist:

Looks like on Apple you can "port" a phone number into their eSIM software/firmware to get phone service.

No - you need the carrier to initiate a SIM swap you cant do it yourself. You can however from IOS16 now apparently migrate the eSIM from one device to another. Old phone to new phone for example.

Edited by Pheasant (Thu 02-Feb-23 21:03:26)

In reply to a post by jpm:

I suspect people who are dead set against contracts would also find it unreasonable to be asked to pay the costs associated with acquiring them as a customer in the form of a setup fee.

i am not dead set against contracts, I just think some of them are too long. I can understand if someone had an Iphone on a contract, they would have to stay on that contract at least until that Iphone is paid for. I have a sim only deal, no contract, there is no cost or very little to the provider apart from a sim and since providers used to chuck them to people like confetti a few years ago.

Fixed line broadband, again I can understand them wanting a contract to pay for set up and maybe a router, but it is their choice to send a router, i would buy my own if it got me a shorter contract., My problem with fixed line broadband contract, certainly now with FTTP is the length, 24 months. I thought we have left 24-month contracts behind.
Maybe give shorter contracts to existing customers, since we are already set up. One of the reasons I have decided to stay with FTTC is because of the length of contracts for FTTP.

Mobile phone wise my last three phones I have purchased outright and gone with sim only, I tend to keep the phones as long as I can. But then I don't pay what I call silly money for phones, like £500 or more. I said a few years ago £200 is the max, the last phone cost me £130 or something like that. When this phone goes belly up hopefully not for another couple of years at least I will look for another one, maybe another Oppo, maybe by that time they may have something I like, their cheaper phones seem to have gone for the silly notch idea.

As I said, above, i can understand when contracts are required and also why some are so long, but no need to be so long for fixed line broadband or sim only contracts as there is no risk to the provider

Apologies, I did get mixed up in the long thread as to who asked what.

In reply to a post by ian72:

Apologies, I did get mixed up in the long thread as to who asked what.

Yes, that can happen, done it myself. No need to apolagise

Brought myself new unlocked Zyxel 5G Router NR5103E and put in the loft and got the speed result: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/16760385368...

I will invest new Poynting 4x4 Omni antenna for 5G - 5G-XPOL-1-V2-41 and YINETTECH 4Pcs RF U.FL IPEX IPX Mini PCI to SMA Female 4Inch 10cm Pigtail Antenna Cable RG-178 Coaxial Low Loss to put in the loft while the hub 5 in the pc room should improvement gaining extra 5G download and upload speed in due course.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Brought myself new unlocked Zyxel 5G Router NR5103E and put in the loft and got the speed result: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/16760385368...

I will invest new Poynting 4x4 Omni antenna for 5G - 5G-XPOL-1-V2-41 and YINETTECH 4Pcs RF U.FL IPEX IPX Mini PCI to SMA Female 4Inch 10cm Pigtail Antenna Cable RG-178 Coaxial Low Loss to put in the loft while the hub 5 in the pc room should improvement gaining extra 5G download and upload speed in due course.

That is pretty impressive, the problem is, how much will it cost per month and what restrictions will you have?
So is there a place on the unit to stick an external antenna?

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

That is pretty impressive, the problem is, how much will it cost per month and what restrictions will you have?
So is there a place on the unit to stick an external antenna?

It's cost £12 a month from this social tariff: https://smarty.co.uk/social-tariff

There is no restrictions on 5G it total unlimited! But I understood Three set FUP of 850GB per month on their own sim but not aplied on smarty sim. 5G Hub unlocked from this bloke: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185759188021

Edited by adslmax (Sat 11-Feb-23 08:51:03)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

It's cost £12 a month from this social tariff: https://smarty.co.uk/social-tariff

There is no restrictions on 5G it total unlimited! But I understood Three set FUP of 850GB per month on their own sim but not aplied on smarty sim. 5G Hub unlocked from this bloke: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185759188021

AIUI Three Unlimited on the consumer tariff means what it says. The caveat is or was that frequently exceeding 1GB could raise suspicion of Business use.

Edited by pluralist (Sat 11-Feb-23 19:50:14)

In reply to a post by adslmax:

It's cost £12 a month from this social tariff: https://smarty.co.uk/social-tariff

There is no restrictions on 5G it total unlimited! But I understood Three set FUP of 850GB per month on their own sim but not aplied on smarty sim. 5G Hub unlocked from this bloke: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185759188021

Fine if you can get the social tariff, that is pretty cheap as long as it works fine, from what I have been told 5G can be a bit iffy, but I suppose that is for mobiles which are moving all the time.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Fine if you can get the social tariff, that is pretty cheap as long as it works fine, from what I have been told 5G can be a bit iffy, but I suppose that is for mobiles which are moving all the time.

Yep, mobile 5G can be iffy. But Hub 5G stay in the loft with good signal will be fine as long the local 5G mast doesn't move elsewhere.(sometimes they even move the mast to a different area if three think it doesn't suit the area)

Edited by adslmax (Sun 12-Feb-23 09:09:26)