Sorted, thanks .

In reply to a post by 69bertie:

Talkmobile (part of Carphone warehouse) ....run on Vodafone, which by sheer chance offer a fairly good signal round these parts (very rural). I tried Three round here but it was usually a case of driving about a mile up the road to get a signal! I just checked to see what deals they are currently doing, Slightly less data but still £7.50/mth

talkmobile is not part of the CPW, vodafone purchased it some years ago since then its been directly owned by and part of vodafons portfolio

The critical words are "low volume user". 1GB/month is a tiny amount of data for many people. There are mobile packages with much more data allowance but they tend to cost quite a bit more.

Also if you want to use things like BBC Iplayer sensibly you'll need to tether your phone to your home network, get a good and fast mobile data connection and have a large data allowance.

That's why many of us still have landlines.

Interesting set of replies. Many thanks. My deal is up shortly and I will see what they might offer. New customers apparently get free internet with a landline and PN have to pay commission to USwitch too. Its a crazy world out there.

Same problem here in a village near Thame. No 3G at all, sometimes no mobile signal at all, useless for web browsing, despite being about a mile to the nearest mast (but shaded by trees). At least we do have FTTC now...

Mines just ended decided after a couple of years wasn't worth it for me.

I have paid LRS with BT consumer for probably 10yrs, But not this year, switching away within the next week or so, Cheaper line rental and calls, a 1mth min term too with my new voice service provider Pulse 8 my costs will fall from £24.99 (2016 LRS ) price inclusive of Any-time unlimited call plan that they have also regularly increased the price of,

One trick the Bigger providers all use is this bundling drive voice and bb=cheaper bb, This also prompts the question of this thread, If you have say the unlimited calling plan, and really hammer it , make 10+ hrs of calls every month, then no LRS isnt worth it, better deals exist by switching voice provider, even when considering the small token gesture saving you get off the bb for bundling both services with same provider

As i live in one of the counties that BTOR have listed for their SOGEA trial i will be seeking further into on this option, Sick of getting fleeced for line rental and subsidising cheap BT's bb & tv offers LRS should be a lot cheaper than it is currently(10%) is a insult, because you are paying 12mtrhs in advance and they won't refund any remaining months should you want to change suppliers or cease the line altogether

Edited by tommy45 (Sun 03-Jan-16 20:12:08)

In reply to a post by keith969:

Same problem here in a village near Thame. No 3G at all, sometimes no mobile signal at all, useless for web browsing, despite being about a mile to the nearest mast (but shaded by trees). At least we do have FTTC now...

The problem around Banbury isn't the signal. When I'm out walking at lunchtime I usually have full signal, especially at the top of the walk because that's only about a kilometre from a Vodafone mast outside Wroxton. But throughput is still lousy. It's either mast backhaul or too many people using that cell :-/

In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by keith969:

Same problem here in a village near Thame. No 3G at all, sometimes no mobile signal at all, useless for web browsing, despite being about a mile to the nearest mast (but shaded by trees). At least we do have FTTC now...

The problem around Banbury isn't the signal. When I'm out walking at lunchtime I usually have full signal, especially at the top of the walk because that's only about a kilometre from a Vodafone mast outside Wroxton. But throughput is still lousy. It's either mast backhaul or too many people using that cell :-/

That's typical for voda. EE and three often did better because better backhaul. However when voda/o2 joint venture CTIL upgrade the mast things improve.

Well I was talking about voice, but concerning data, I get a solid LTE at home, and when I was in a hotel in cromer over christmas I was able to stream twitch fine to my phone using EE mobile data.