[Closed] Rural mobile 4g question?

It depends exactly what you mean. You can, for example, get a geographic (01XXX) type number to route to Skype or no doubt other specific apps (for a small cost). You probably can't keep your existing number (you may be able to forward it for a cost, for a while though).

As I understand it , if your getting rid of your physical landline and wired Broadband for a 4G based data package then you will no longer have a physical landline or the No. thats attached to it so in answer No.

Also, as it’s 4g it’s not static (ie when I go away for the weekend, I take mine with me...) so as it’s not a fixed location you can’t give it a fixed location number, no?

You can use voip such as viopfone but you pay for a geographic number and I’m unsure if you can port over an existing number.

You can port a landline number to a VOIP provider as I did with Sipgate who charge £30 to do it.

Why would you want to keep the landline number? Genuine question.

We recently ditched our landline and went 4g home broadband, so much better for our location.

Not exactly the same but we binned BT internet because of dreadful speeds, as we live in a rural area with no fibre optic cables. We binned our BT landline at the same time. We now use a local rural broadband provider and VOIP phone with Vonage. We were able to port over our old area specific BT landline number.

Blokeuptheroad: thinking of doing this (for my parents) and setting it up for them.
I would not bother with the landline full stop. Is there any advantage to keep it? Some forms require fixed landline or is that old hat?
Where is the best place to buy the 4G router from and the data plan? Is it best to get them separately or mobile provider together?
I will be making a mast in a field for them.
Help appreciated.

Personally I would always buy separately so you can shop around at anytime for the best data only SIM deal. You can always sell the Mifi box on ebay at a later date and get your money back. I had a TP-Link M7350 when I was in a short term rent, which had decent range, only drawback I can recall was it went to sleep if there was no device linked to it, so you had to activate it, there wasn't any option to have it permanently live when plugged into mains. Fine if it's always on your person, but not if you turn the laptop on and then have to walk downstairs into the kitchen to activate the Mifi. I think the M7350 was more designed to be used mobile (a big benefit is all your devices tablet/laptop become 4G mobile) it's possible that there might be Mifi boxes that are better suited to be used in the home ie more like a trad home wifi router. The only other drawback was data anxiety, I certainly couldn't do iplayer or youtube that often.