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Urgent need for internets!

Hello all, without going into too much detail, my aunt is coming over from South Africa to look after gramps for a couple of weeks and will be staying in a house that has no existing broadband connection

She wont be staying for longer than a month or two at the most but needs internet access almost from the word go.

Are there any providers who can, for example, provide a dongle on a PAYG basis?

Thanks for the help guize.
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  • aliasojo
    aliasojo Posts: 23,053 Forumite
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    http://shop.o2.co.uk/promo/o2mobilebroadband/tab/Pay_and_Go

    http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=template10&pageID=MB_0012

    There's 2 to start with. :) Go through Quidco, there are offers on there.

    Quidco offer for O2.....£40 for a mobile bb connection if you top up £15 in the first 2 months. The dongle is £29.35 plus the £15 top up is £44.35 so it would only cost you £4.35 for dongle and top up. (Quidco actually tracked at £40 PLUS £14.58 at one point for this so in effect you were in profit but I dont know if it still works.)
    Herman - MP for all! :)
  • Bf109
    Bf109 Posts: 634 Forumite
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    You're a star.
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Rise like Lions after slumber
    In unvanquishable number -
    Shake your chains to earth like dew
    Which in sleep had fallen on you -
    Ye are many - they are few.
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  • Hi aliasojo,

    Can I ask where you got the information about topping up within 2 months?

    I also need internet access for a limited period but wasn't sure if O2 would consider the PAYG BB as a purchase of PAYG or of Mobile BB - the cashback is very different for both of these and I couldn't find anything on Quidco to shed any light on it... But I can other providers distinguish between PAYM BB and PAYG BB in their cashback offers... very confusing...

    Has anyone tried it? :confused:

    Thanks

    H
    On a mission to be mortgage free!
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  • Edinburghlass_2
    Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,680 Forumite
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    From Quidco pop up when you go to o2..

    Please read the following before proceeding:

    In order to receive cashback for PAYG Mobile Broadband you must top up with £15 within the first two months to receive your cashback.

    From o2 website..

    http://shop.o2.co.uk/promo/o2mobilebroadband/tab/Pay_and_Go
  • Thanks for your help, i wasn't signed in to Quidco when i was looking! Oops...
    On a mission to be mortgage free!
    MFW OP 2017 #106: £16,951.67 / £31, 626.61
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