NO! and I'll bet they'll **** up the cancelation like they did with me and it will cost you 3 months of payments before the plant pots get it sorted.

if you are looking for phone, these are sufficient for tethering and costs less than £20 and no contract required.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4176923.htm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00XJRI0EO

Unlock only costs 99p.

So you can buy this without getting the contract?

was looking for a cheap phone to tether but this will do the trick. thanks op

EE deffo try and pull a fast one when it comes to cancelling contracts.. done it twice with me now

Neither are 4g phones.

I wrote to the CEO [email protected] and the director [email protected] and got a full refund

I managed to get one with no up front cost - it was applied as a manager's special or something on the till. This was at Nottingham Castle Marina Currys just before Christmas.

Hardware not as robust as the original Osprey, I had one go wrong and had to go to an EE Store to get it sorted; has a 2 year guarantee apparently.

Guys before you jump into this contract please realise that you will end up paying more than 1 month, even if you cancel the same moment you sign up, as billing is done pro-rata and EE have a tendancy to overcharge like anything. Read every T&C and clauses. The extra could be anything from £1 upwards.

How does the Osprey 2 compare to a similar deal on a "4G Huawei" from CPW (http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/broadband/mobile-broadband/buy/huawei-4g-mifi-em169-fcon4)? Both are 30-day contracts and cost is similar (19.99+0.99 unlock vs 20 unlocked) with the CPW one giving 15GB for those first 30 days, but how does the hardware compare?

Oo I'm tempted on this... neat ta!

So is the Huawei. Like any contract you own the device as soon as it begins and keep it regardless of when you cancel the contract.

Thats 2 different concepts mentioned there?.

What you bought was perfectly ok as ebay (generally speaking) does NOT do contracts of anything?.

Other 'Outlets' on the other hand may nit necessarily conform to that, so as such your own safeguarding protocols may drastically differ ..... :-)

In a word 'Yes'. :-)

Ok, it's late and my brain is mush... I should pay attention to this in the morning, but I thought someone would be smarter than me (hehe, not hard)

If I buy this for £9.99, I'll obviously need to sign up to EE separately, or is it linked to the purchase, so I give details to Currys to sign me up to the monthly doo dah and pay Currys £19.99 when I buy it?

Wow a whole gig. Decent device though.

Indeed. EE are a bloody nightmare billing wise, the number of times I've been overbilled by them, complained only for them to keep over billing. I remember once this happened three times in a row. Also be wary when you renew a contract with them and try and negotiate a deal with them, they'll give you the deal but it'll involve them applying a ridiculous number of discounts to get the final price, so much so it becomes very confusing to work out exactly how much you're being charged.

Phone... cancel... then phone bank and cancel direct debit... sorted - they cant take any more money out your account :smiley:

Is this better than the Huwai device which is a little more expensive (£5 more)?

Could you chuck a 3 sim card in it and use it abroad

I did that once (at the advice of customer services). I ended up with a non-payment black mark on my credit file for the next 6 years.

Awesome deal! This is way better than my current contract. But stuck up with O2 phew :/

Bad idea to cancel direct debit. It will mess up your credit rating if the network don't cancel on their end first (properly). All it takes is one mistake on their end. It happens more often than you'd think. EE are literally the worst network when it comes to these things. My source? I worked at Carphone for 3 years.

Beware of signing a contract with EE, my credit record is screwed by them expecting me to pay them for 3 months AFTER my contract was cancelled. The nightmare with debt collects for £50 ish was disgusting and now my credit record is shown every month as no payment. EE wont listen and I just can deal with the stress anymore.

Great idea if your credit history is already crap, but not so good for people with a good history that wants to keep it that way.

If you cancel and have paid up and can prove it it will have no affect on your credit rating. They are in breach if they try to take money out once cancelled that you do not owe.

There's nothing to stop them putting a missed payment and default onto your credit record and that would be a disaster. Good luck trying to get that removed.

If you can prove it was put on there after you cancelled and didnt owe money you can remove it.

You would think!!
I had a similar problem with 02 and Experian would not touch the score until 02 told them to.
I had bills showing that my account was £20 in credit (O2 owed me money) but it was like talking to a brick wall.
I eventually got it sorted and O2 removed the mark from my file but canceling the direct debit doesn't make the problem go away.
It makes it worse.
Which, incidentally is how the mark went in my file in the first place. (I cancelled direct debit because my account was in credit and O2 tried to take payment)

I don't know if anyone else replied to you but this is better than the huawei for 2 reasons. 1 it had double the battery capacity and 2 it has a display. I have the huawei and it works just fine but if this deal was about then I would have got it instead. Although if you need the data and don't need such a long battery life the huawei works well and is still a great deal.

I tried to get it removed but it has to be done by EE, they owe me £60 and wanted me to pay them various amounts between £20 and £75. They havent a clue what they say or do, the debt collectors backed off but even while it was with them the amount was never the same in each letter.

also worth a look http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ee-osprey-2-mini-pay-go-mobile-wifi-24gb-12m-79-99-currys-2396421

£15 in Tesco phneshop

Is it possible to connect this to my home router to distribute the signal that way?

Depends on your router and it's functionality.
I have the Asus n66u and I can catch the Wi-Fi signal and redistribute the signal through router.

Thats actually the same router as mine, I shall have to investigate further, thankyou.

No it's not. They don't even sell the device. Online anyway.

I work in Phoneshop

So, no topup required.. Just buy the device for £15?

£15 for device 2 gb unclouded

cool.. very good price.. any Barcode to check stock?

Anybody know if you get a better signal and faster speed with these over mobile phones.

when do you have to pay the £10 top up??

I just bought this yesterday at Currys PC World and got £5 off the up front cost. I just phoned EE today and told them I only needed it a small amount of data for one month and the guy over the phone said that its cancelled before the 1st of May which is normally when I would be billed for another month.

Now im going to stick an old tmobile sim in and use the £20 6 month web add on.

24.99 now

Its back down to £9.99, Bought one yesterday. Had planned on getting the £10 30 day 1gb sim, But curry's didn't have that one, they only had £11 for 2gb, Manager checked curry's website and said yes it was an error on their part so gave me device for free and I paid for £11 sim. Cancelled contract soon as I get home, once the £11 DD has gone out then cancelling it from my bank just in case. Unlocked device for 99p from ebay.

Cheers OP, Well happy with that, been looking for decent device to go with the 3 4G 12GB sim deal to take to spain

Looks like its £15.99 for the device now. Still worth it for me though. Perfect solution for my data speed needs that Vodafone just can't quite cut.

Looks like its back to £9.99 again. Glad I held off for a few days. :laughing: