I'm beginning to use 4G as my main method of connection to the internet because wired broadband round here is absolutely atrocious. Before someone from EE chips in and tries to sell me broadband access, know that it's OpenReach's infrastructure that's just about hanging on by the skin of its teeth, so switching me over to EE broadband won't make a blind bit of difference. Hell will freeze over before we get FTTP here on a council estate.
Until now I've been using my phone as a modem but that's not practical because the signal here is not particularly strong and moving the phone from its position or even just holding it can cause it to lose the lock on the 4G signal and downgrade the connection to 2G.
So I bought an LTE router. I can place that in an area of the flat with a reasonable signal and it sprays Wi-Fi coverage throughout the place. There's a PAYG SIM in it right now while I'm evaluating the practicality of the setup, but if it works out then I'll bump the line up to a contract with a small amount of data, bring it into the same account as my phone and gift chunks of my 100 GB allowance on the phone to the router.
