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Got my house on the market, but not found somewhere else to move to. I'm on virgin but my contract has just expired and gone up to £55 a month (internet only). Due to the dire nature of the market i'm expecting a 6-9 month wait to move. VM have offered me a £19 pm deal on a 24 month contract. If i manage to move after 6 months that leaves me £350 owing to VM, unless i move to another VM area.
I'm not a big internet user at home - bit of netflix and spotify, kids don't have devices yet.
Thinking i could get somthing like: https://amzn.eu/d/43jJq49 and https://www.lycamobile.co.uk/en/bundle/uk-plan-unlimited-12m/?newUser=true
5G is pretty ropey where i am so i'd probably endup spending the £350 on an antenna if i went for that.
Other option is to go for a 24 month VM contract an hope i can move it
Anyone done similar?
Cheers
edit: sorry i'd add a hyperlink to those examples but it seems to make the forum go a bit mad.
Search on Lyca Mobile brings up tax evasion and redundancy.
Not sure what's going on there!
Much though it pains me to suggest this, but you could get a Starlink mini for £180 from them themselves and their cheapest roaming package for £50 a month which has no actual contract. You’re limited to 50gb, or £75 for a residential unlimited. Then when you’ve moved just stick it on eBay.
Yep a Mini might do you:
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/postid/13623885/
If it wasn't for the netflix you'd possibly have got away with spending just £4.50/month to put it in standby.
But as said you can just cancel when you're done with it.
Just be aware that, unless a dish has been officially transferred to you[r Starlink account], a second hand one is NOT going to work. Which is why there's zero point in them being stolen.
You can get short term (1 month rolling contract) broadband deals fairly easily. Also £55 for Virgin is very expensive. If you can get standard (non Virgin) fibre to your house then you should be able to get broadband for about half that price.
See what this link shows is available in your area:
https://www.gocompare.com/broadband/short-term-and-no-contract/
Yes, 4G router plus unlimited data sim for £15/month - used this for about 18 months when we moved into a rental whilst new house built and until fibre broadband installed. We had to use an external 4G aerial as we were very remote/poor mobile signal.
There was a mobile broadband deal in the last few days on HotUKDeals, about one off fee of ~£8 got huge monthly data allowance until 7th November.
Use your phone as a hotspot and cancel netflix. With 5G Madame's phone is much faster than the local fibre and my 4G+ is comparable. Haven't had broadband for years.
Yes, 4G router plus unlimited data sim for £15/month - used this for about 18 months when we moved into a rental whilst new house built and until fibre broadband installed. We had to use an external 4G aerial as we were very remote/poor mobile signal.
We did this. Router aerial was no use as there was barely any 4G registering on our phones in the house. Added a cheap external aerial that suckered onto the outside of one of our windows. That got us up to about 20meg down. Bit spotty but worked okay. Eventually went for a hemispheric antenna (as we don't have line of sight to the cell mast on the ridge) on the chimney stack. That got us about 35 down/5 up. Again it was a bit variable but because we live in the middle of nowhere, it's not like a town where the towers can get congested.
Ours was three, £15 a month I think and the router was free. Unlimited data.
Now we have fibre. I don't miss the mobile BB, but it worked for us for about 4 years.
Virgin don't charge the excess if you move to a non-virgin area (in the UK).
If you move to a Virgin area, they expect you to take the service with you (or pay the excess)
If you move outside the UK, they expect you to pay the excess.
Check. But I think you are safe to take that 24 month offer unless you will be leaving the UK when you sell.