By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at 3:12 PM
For UK customers wanting all the benefits of broadband on the move, Vodafone UK have upped their 30 day mobile broadband package to now offer a free modem plus 3GB of data – which has got to be a good deal in anyone’s book!
Vodafone are quite sure that their 3G network covers over 80% of the UK population, so the chances are that you should get good coverage in most places, unless you’re headed up some remote peak in Scotland or Wales perhaps.
For a slightly different deal, if you’re looking for a Laptop bundle, then Vodafone can help here too. How about the Compaq Presario CQ61 laptop? You can get it for only £59 on pay monthly price plans from £30 and also get a USB modem stick and 3GB of data included so you can email, browse and chat on the go.
It very much seems like Vodafone are on-point with the very aggressive pricing needed to attract new mobile broadband customers – I may even if have to grab a dongle myself
You can find out more about the 30-day package here.
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career
when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has
now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the
next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas!
He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently
became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years
when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to
'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make
your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device)
isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question
of why you continue to use it...
His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and
infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the
occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience
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regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
nicolajames
I often um and ah about going over to mobile broadband. But every time I compare broadband packages, mobile broadband seems to be getting slated for the speed. I've read studies that said the speed is fairly good but twice as many reviews complaining about the speed.
I don't mind taking a slight reduction in speed, so long as the connection is reasonable. Can anyone clarify this?