Steve1980
Regular Member
I'm setting up "DIY" 5G home broadband on Three. As I'll no longer have a landline and my mobile is also on Three, if they go down I will be cut off.
I'd like to get a second SIM for another network for standby use only. I don't want to be paying monthly for this as I hope not to need it. I'd like to be able to top up (via public wifi or using my phone from another cell, I guess) only when required.
I'm struggling to find anything. I though PAYG bundles (top up £20 to get 50GB of data for 30 days style of thing) might be the solution but they all seem to want to work on a rolling automatic top up basis, which is no good to me. A secondary consideration is that ideally I don't want to be forced to faff around with making calls or topping up just to keep the SIM active until I need it.
Does anyone have any suggestions please? Worst case I guess is buying the standby SIM when I need it, but I then have to wait two or three days for it to turn up in the post.
Is there any scope for ordering a SIM now but not activating it until I need it? Or is such an unactivated SIM going to expire after a few months anyway?
5G data would be nice but if it happened to make things cheaper I would be reasonably happy with 4G only, since this is just for backup.
Thanks for any advice!
I'd like to get a second SIM for another network for standby use only. I don't want to be paying monthly for this as I hope not to need it. I'd like to be able to top up (via public wifi or using my phone from another cell, I guess) only when required.
I'm struggling to find anything. I though PAYG bundles (top up £20 to get 50GB of data for 30 days style of thing) might be the solution but they all seem to want to work on a rolling automatic top up basis, which is no good to me. A secondary consideration is that ideally I don't want to be forced to faff around with making calls or topping up just to keep the SIM active until I need it.
Does anyone have any suggestions please? Worst case I guess is buying the standby SIM when I need it, but I then have to wait two or three days for it to turn up in the post.
Is there any scope for ordering a SIM now but not activating it until I need it? Or is such an unactivated SIM going to expire after a few months anyway?
5G data would be nice but if it happened to make things cheaper I would be reasonably happy with 4G only, since this is just for backup.
Thanks for any advice!























