I have Fibre 100 (GFast) Halo 3. I went for Halo 3 because of the 'free' 4G hub you get if your service fails. I am fed by a long, old overseas drop wire so I thought it was a good idea at the time.
I regret it now. The chief reason that Halo 3 exists is that it generates more regular monthly income for BT. With unlimited 4G on my phone I could manage for a while if my broadband went down and after a stable BT service here and elsewhere for a decade I doubt that a failure is very likely. The snag is that once you 'upgrade' to Halo 3 that becomes your starting point in negotiations for when you change your service. I have tried to get the Halo 3 removed from my account in order to save a bit of £ but they won't let me. I never seem to get to the end of a contract because I upgrade or take advantage of offers before then, so I am sort of locked in to Halo 3. It is a clever business model.
So am paying for a yearly visit from an expert, which I will certainly never use and, effectively, an insurance premium against a very unlikely event which may not be necessary anyway.
I wonder, out of interest, if one didn't have Halo 3 but suffered an outage, whether BT would send a 4G hub anyway, I bet they would.
