High usage tethering options?

Soldato
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Well for starters **** BT.. I hate that company with a passion...

I'm moving house in 3 weeks, I currently have infinity. I called them 2 weeks ago to arrange a move, they seemed very very helpful, its a new house meaning they had some difficulty working out what I could have.

Anyway they left it that I'd get a call back from an escalations team person within 5 working days.. needless to say that never happened and now after speaking to them again they've gone back to parroting their website saying I can only have 6mb copper broadband (despite the entire street being fibre ready, same exact issue as I had in the flat I'm in now) etc etc

And now in for the bargain as they held out hope of something else based on a call back and told me not to progress the order whilst they sorted themselves out (then did FA) I'm now going to be in the new house with no connection of any description for 2 weeks.. the 2 weeks they just fannied about doing sod all.

Gotta love BT.

Anyway, in for the bargain I work from home a LOT so they've properly scuppered me here. My choices are to work in a starbucks or a regus for a couple of weeks ignoring all the deliveries I'll be needing for the new place or stump up for a tethering setup.

Sorry, I am aware this is more of a rant than a question but as usual an interaction with BT has me shaking with anger.

The question is, my work will likely let me expense some sort of tethering setup until my **** poor copper broadband gets installed (presumably at exactly the same time they start nagging me to watch their stupid football cannel) but I see Three have stopped their all you can eat tethering for new lines and have capped it at 2gb.

Anyone know what happens after 2gb? Can I pay for more? Anyone any idea what happens with Vodafone on this? My work line is with them and I'm half tempted just to spank that line but the info available as the what happens after caps or if you can prepay much more data is very patchy..

Any sim only offers anyone is aware of? I have spare 3g phones so thats not a problem, I just need something that isn't going to slip off a 2gb cap onto £10 per mb and get me sacked!
 
I get those options but I'm finding it nearly impossible to find a simple comparison of over bundle usage charges.

or for example is there any sort of business tethering option where I can buy 50gb of usage allowance, basically the retail options seem to max out at 2-4gb which is useless, I'll be over that in a week for work, maybe quicker.
 
So can anyone confirm not infer that you can get a rolling 30 day contract from 3 with unlimited tethering?

Like a new contract, not an existing one?
 
You can sign online as well :D

I get that but reading this http://www.three.co.uk/ThreePortal/...goBlobs&blobwhere=1223584153774&ssbinary=true

From the link off the one plan 30 day details here http://store.three.co.uk/SIM_Only/Voice_Pay_Monthly

Makes no reference at all to tethering or personal hotspot other than the 2gb limit that you can increase by another 1gb?

I want to see someone say it to my face and seeing as I'm moving to maidenhead about half a mile from their head office I can make a nuisance of myself if they tell me fibs! :)
 
Well, quick report... I got a 3 sim, one plan, £23 a month and hammered the living daylights out of it. It averaged about 6mb down and was pretty much flawless, in fact it was slightly better than the standard broadband BT put in!

Back to fibre now.. phew!
 
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