4g routers

Am I reading this right?
https://www.o2.co.uk/shop/alcatel/pocket-hotspot-4g?contractType=paymonthly#contractType=paymonthly
For £11 a month you’d get the router and 5 GB of data which would double as we are with Virgin media.
No other costs? Seems good value.
Would this gubbins then act as a normal router
We want to get Mrs zips mum’s house a little bit smart.
She’s had a lot of falls and want her to be able to turn lights on by voice and call us via an Alexa. We get good O2 4g at her house would the box be able to operate 4 Alexas and light bulbs?

Yes basically. We use 4G routers at work, have thousands of them. On a commercial deal we pay £5 for 1Gb of data per month (commercial SIM cards don’t get throttled etc when the network is busy). The router will provide WiFi. It all depends on signal strength. We dont need a particularly strong or stable signal (although it helps), if you are using the internet and moving large amounts of data you might have issues.

It’s designed to be portable so can be a pain when you want it for home use as opposed to an “always on” home router style one that you could buy from a third party. Those are expensive though so my parents have always just managed with the free one.

FYI at least on 3 you can just use a mobile SIM in the router to make use of a better deal. 10Gb for £11 isn’t great.

That looks like a crap deal to me.

You can get a 4g router for between £50 and £100.

Then get a sim only deal off Smarty for £7 a month with 8gb or £8 for 12gb.

We know we get a good signal with O2 and that’s the most important thing.
Will 10gb be enough to stream radio through an Alexa 10 hours a day and do a drop in phone call per day?

We use EEs 4gee home broadband. Not had a phoneline for years now.

We have a package including another sim and phone for £50 pm, that’s unlimited data.

We know we get a good signal with O2 and that’s the most important thing.
Will 10gb be enough to stream radio through an Alexa 10 hours a day and do a drop in phone call per day?

Radio uses ~ 100 MB an hour – so 1 GB a day for you – so no 10 GB won’t be enough.

Giff gaff is on 02 they do sim only too

Smarty do unlimited data for £20 a month.