Short-term or rolling "contract"

DullGreyGuy

flaneurs_lobster said:

Veteransaver said:

If you have decent mobile signal, then you could look at a 4g or 5g router and use it with a one month rolling SIM plan. But check which network would give the best speed.
You'd need to buy the router (possibly secondhand is best) but you should be able to sell it once you've used it and get most of your money back.
Or if it's only a few months and you don't need a lot of devices connected you could just use your phone or a spare phone as a hotspot and connect that way

And the landline? 

Port the number to VOIP and use that via the 4/5g router

matelodave

I dont know how much extra it will cost you to remain on your existing contract for another 5-6 months but will it really be worth the hassle of trying to swap suppliers, faff around with a 4G/5G router, change to VoIP etc to save say £50 or so. By the time you've got it all sorted another month is likely to have passed.

I might be persuaded to go down the 4G/5G-VoiP route if I could take it with me to use at the new place, instead of getting a fixed line broadband when you move in. However if that is a plan you need to be pretty confident that it would work OK (speed, reliability and especially network availability), both where you are now and where you are moving to.

savergrant

YBR said:

costs go up by £17 pm, which is a lot, but less than the Rebel over the timescale I expect, and much better than the silly cost of not thinking ahead!

Thanks for affirming that I'm not missing a trick!

£17 pm would get you quite a decent short contract payg mobile bundle (and have the benefit of being portable)