EE has announnced prices for the HTC WiFi hub:
£100 upfront
50GB data - £50pm
100GB data - £75pm
Blimey, are those limits missing 0s?
@ 1Gbps or 125 MB/s download.
50,000 MB / 125 MB
= potentially 400 seconds (less than 7mins) to eat through that monthly allowance?
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Oh only just realised EE created two 5G routers. One with a screen that’s a bit more portable. 
The ‘HTC 5G Mobile Smart Hub’ has been renamed ‘5GEE WiFi’.
And the second Huawei ‘5GEE Home Router’
Which is the CPE Pro Huawei announced back in Feb
the HUAWEI 5G CPE Pro utilises fiber-like up to 3.2 Gbps speeds
wonder when we’ll see that.
Yeah, those prices are for the ‘portable’ one with the screen. Prices haven’t been announced yet for the home router Huawei device yet. The data caps for that one will be around a TB
I’ll stay with Virgin broandband for now with 200mb per month.
You seem to be confusing 5G mobile broadband with 5GHz home broadband signal these are not the same thing.
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Don’t know if that’s aimed at me, but I understand you have 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (better range,better at going through walls) and 5 GHz Wi-Fi (shorter range, crap at going through walls, but data transmitted faster). Same SSID and your devices choose the best at the time.
From what I see both the 5GEE WiFi and 5GEE Home Router both can pickup 5G cellular and are both dual frequency routers aren’t they.
Am I missing something? Could you not take your ‘Home router’ with you? And could you not just get the ‘WiFi’ model to use at home.
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The only thing you’re missing is the capability in terms of simultaneous connections and battery. The ‘WiFi’ model can have less devices using it at the same time and is less powerful overall, but it does have a battery.
You also can get a lot higher data package on the ‘home’ one as it’s meant to be used more. There’s nothing stopping you taking the ‘home’ one around with you and plugging it in wherever you are next to a socket - it’s just less convenient.
You could definitely use the ‘WiFi’ one at home if you’re only using a couple of devices, your total usage is less than 100GB per month and you are happy to leave it plugged in, harming the battery over a long period.
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if you want to go mobile internet at home, look at three, unlimited data. their 5g will start rolling out 2nd half of 2019 but they haven’t released which cities will be in opening wave.
40mbps isnt bad at all. that is more than enough for pretty much anything, unless you have a large family all streaming.
going back to 5g, just because its launching does not mean you will get it instantly, it very much depends where you live.
personally as you can get good broadband i would take that and rethink when the contract ends and things have matured and prices settled.
oh and most issues with internet come from the rubbish free routers. so upgrading them is a good option, especially if you are running a lot of devices even if they dont pull much data liek smart home devices.
But then wifi6 has just come out which is a massive improvement but the routers are like £300 so its another do you wait for reduced cost or buy last gen.
I think he was replying to @gallifreyangirl above his comment 
Back on topic though. I use 4G as home broadband (too rural for fibre and can only get 4mbps through ADSL) and sadly I’m not near any of the major cities so I guess I’ll be waiting a while before this is available. And more importantly, reasonably priced!
Very much looking forward to it though and it will be a game changer for me and other rural people that struggle to get decent broadband speeds.
Who do you get your broadband from that’s reasonably priced. Three?
Yeah they have unlimited data, calls and texts for £20 per month. They even allow you to use it as a hot-spot too so that’s what I do 
For some reason they keep adding and removing it from their website. So if it isn’t there just check a week later or contact them.
It wasn’t really a case of wanting mobile over landline just that it’ll be the fastest option when 5G is in my area. My landline connection is a stable ~70+ Mbps so only looking for swapping to the potential 900 - 1000Mbps from 5G as I can’t get fibre to my home.
Our town got 80 / 20 about twelve years back now but has been the same since. I’m looking forward to getting 1GB downloaded in 8 seconds rather than like 2 mins.
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So really thinking about dumping Vodafone already. Got them to give me termination figures and looks like Now Broadband even with the £60 initial fee works out better if you want to leave until ~11 mths, if you continue past this then the next half year becomes cheaper to have been with Vodafone and £150 overall if until the end of contract (£450 v £600)
Now have a 12 month fixed without the £60 fee. So that might be better with costing £360 leaving at the end of the year. June 2020 might actually be realistic. 
| cost of leaving after x mths | Vodafone | Now Broadband |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 310.73 | 210 |
| 6 | 324.52 | 240 |
| 7 | 338.31 | 270 |
| 8 | 352.1 | 300 |
| 9 | 365.89 | 330 |
| 10 | 379.68 | 360 |
| 11 | 393.47 | 390 |
| 12 | 407.26 | 420 |
| 13 | 421.05 | 450 |
| 14 | 434.84 | 480 |
| 15 | 448.63 | 510 |
| 16 | 462.42 | 540 |
| 17 | 476.21 | 570 |
Will 5G be available within a year from now with an unlimited plan is the big Q
I’d say its achievable
My Vodafone broadband recently came to and end and I joined EE 4GEE broadband thinking it would be faster than fixed line broadband, I went for the 100 GB package at £40 per month. I vastly underestimated my usage, within a week I’d used all my data, plus my son moaned about it being laggy.
Luckily I was within my 14 day return period.
I very much doubt it. Remember when 4G was first available? 3G? 2G even? The networks like to generate as much profit as they can from the early adopters. I think it’ll be fairly expensive for at least a year then we’ll see costs start to fall. Could be another year on top of that before anything approaching “unlimited” is available.
#gifsthatendtoosoon
I wanted to see upload speed too 
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Let’s not forget thats probably with about 100 or if even that subscribed.
Wait til more get on, be in the 100mbps then!
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