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I ordered 63 in several batches.
Half a dozen were instant deliveries.
Since then I've received 4. (2 post 1996 and 2 older ones).
There seems to be a glitch at the moment whereby they aren't showing the date they were first downloaded. (I had this with some wills a few years ago and they have stayed permanently available ever since)

edit: just got another one which has registered the download correctly.

There's mention of a new "bulk access" fee. If this is set at a reasonable level I could cope, but I expect it will be set in the £1000's

Bulk access is not new. It's  a continuous electronic feed of every grant, you don't get to choose what you want. At the moment that is still £1.50 per will. (about £90k per quarter looking at rough figures)

Quote from: AntonyMMM on Saturday 27 April 24 14:54 BST (UK)

GRO indexes are publicly available ( up to the most recent quarter) but again GRO have decided to restrict the coverage of their own on-line indexes, even though they have previously made the same data available through other means ( e.g. Ancestry and FindMyPast).

Do you know if they are going to update the online Deaths index beyond 2021?

2022 deaths are available now. Also births.

It's an unlocked phone that's not tied to a particular provider.

Sim free means you buy the phone without a sim card. You can put your old sim card in it if it is the right size.  (If it's the wrong size you have to go into your network phone shop and ask for a "sim swap" - they should be able to do it on the spot)