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I just bought a 59gig data chip. It's fircuse in my router to provide internet for my house. It seems to have unlimited calls and texts. How can these be accessed via my router?
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You can use calls and you have the wrong SIM for a router. 

O2 will cut you off once the system detects it. 

You need a mobile broadband SIM only.

Any of these https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/sim-cards/sim-only-deals#deviceType=other&contractLength=P12M

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You can use calls and you have the wrong SIM for a router. 

O2 will cut you off once the system detects it. 

You need a mobile broadband SIM only.

Any of these https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/sim-cards/sim-only-deals#deviceType=other&contractLength=P12M

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That is what I asked for when I ordered it from O2 using the phone line and talking to an advisor. I stressed it was for use only on my router, and was told that was what I needed. It's still in the post and I am currently using a different supplier on a different LTE Router.
Will have to speak to customer services and see what they have to say. They said it did not matter if I only used the data.
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Unfortunately they don't know what the are talking about.
It happens all too often these days.
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Thanks for that. I am with Three at the moment, and get unlimited everything on a Pay Monthly contract, includung a free modem for £18.a month. The problem us that their signal is very hit and miss. I live at 1130 feet up in the hills in a small depression. Their signal oasses over me, but as Zi have a 29 foot tall mast and a 25db gain LTE trial that just pokes into it, I usually get a good signal. However , if a horse or a cow gets in the way I lose my signal.
With O2, I did a signal check in my basement on my phone and got a good signal. Good to me means -40 to - 60 dbm. What do you class as good
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Quality is better than quantity. Did you run any speed checks?
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Speed dies not particularly matter. It's reliability of service and actually getting a signal inside my house. The other night I had to stand outside in 4 degree heat to make a phone call using Three. I could not log into the O2 network. But it was the only one available. If it does not work I have 14 days to cancel
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So after contacting ghem they did not know what they were talking about. Closed my account abd binned the sim.
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