The broadband service from Plusnet is a true pay as you go (PAYG) option. The sign-up is free and you pay for the broadband you use. If you don’t use the internet much, this could be a good option for you.
From Plusnet:
If you use the internet for less than 10 hours per week, Pay As You Go is the ideal option for you. Connect with no commitments, no limits on your usage. You can connect from anywhere, at any time and from any telephone network.
Visit the Plusnet website for further product information.
3 (three) has added three more laptops to its range of mobile broadband and free laptop packages.
Readers wanting further information on 3’s mobile broadband and free laptop packages can find out more at the Three website (www.three.co.uk).
The free laptops added to the three mobile broadband range are the Samsung NC10 netbook, the Acer 751 notebook and the Samsung R519 laptop.
The Samsung NC10 netbook is a fantastic new lightweight netbook which has the added benefit of a 7 hour battery life (I am writing this post on one, and I can honestly say they are a brilliant laptop and in my opinion the best netbook on the market).
People wishing to avoid O2′s extra charge for using their iPhone to connect a computer to the net can use free software – but O2 warns it will cut them off.
Owners of the new iPhone 3GS handset and the iPhone 3G can circumvent extra monthly charges for using the handsets as a broadband dongle using a simple technical workaround.
The discovery could cause problems for O2, which has the monopoly on iPhone sales in the UK and which has reported high interest in the new 3GS, which went on sale this morning.
Good news – mobile broadband operator 3 (three) has dropped the price of its pay as you go broadband (PAYG) services and its 3GB ready to go mobile broadband starter kit.
To find out more visit the Three website.
New customers to the 3 network will receive a mobile broadband dongle (fits in the USB port of your computer) for a one-off payment of £19.99.
Buy the mobile broadband dongle for £20.
Then in true pay as you go style, you purchase top-ups for the dongle.
- 1GB top-up – £10
- 3GB top-up – £15
Good news. You can now use your iphone as a broadband dongle…
Update: If you are looking for a pay as you go iphone then try this website dedicated to the top iphone pay as you go.
Visit the O2 website for more information about the new pay as you go iPhone and pricing. From O2…
You don’t need a monthly contract to get an iPhone 3G. There are three models to choose from:
- iPhone 3G 8GB – £342.50
- iPhone 3G S 16GB – £440.40
- iPhone 3G S 32GB – £538.30
Three have just started to provide free additional services whenever you top-up your broadband account.
Top up with just £10 on your Three mobile broadband and you will recieve 300 free texts. If you top-up online you will receive 600 free texts.
Even better – the top ups don’t have to be used for 90 days, this gives you lots of time to get texting your mates.
From the Three mobile website …
Every time you top-up you get all this free stuff:
- A bundle of free texts that gets bigger the more you top-up
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Just came across an article in the Telegraph. Provides tactics of which broadband provider to use for different situations. Here is their snippet on PAYG deals.
You can get pay as you go mobile broadband deals if you don’t want to be locked in. For example, with 3′s mobile broadband pay as you go deal, you pay £29.35 for the USB stick and then from £10 per 1GB download. O2 charges the same for the stick and from £7.50 per 1GB download.
Original full length version of the article was on the Telegraph website.
Another handy paraphrased snippet…
Broadband Genie have been conducting some tests on the mobile broadband provision of the UK’s six leading mobile broadband providers.
They took the various broadband dongles along with some laptops on a road trip (well train trip) from Cambridge to Bournemouth.
Winner of Dongle on the move 2009 was – Virgin Media broadband dongle.
The runner-up was Vodafone mobile broadband.
For further information:
Visit the Virgin Media website. Visit the Vodafone website.
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If you are considering purchasing mobile broadband for your computer or laptop, then it is worth checking whether your computer will cope. Here are the minumum system specifications for each mobile broadband providers broadband dongle / modem.
Summary: As long as your computer is running Windows 2000 on a PC or OS X Panther on a Mac, you have 256MB RAM and a USB port you should be fine. The most important bit is the USB port – a mobile dongle won’t easily work without one so check you have one. Otherwise you will likely need to go for a PCMCIA card to plug into your laptop.
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Vodafone recently launched a new pay as you go broadband service for mobile broadband users. Their product is called the “Top up and Go” service – it is a really good choice if you do not use the internet much but want to have the flexibility of accessing the internet from anywhere. Visit the Vodafone website for more information.
Vodafone provide the fastest mobile broadband speeds in the UK – setting the benchmark at broadband speeds of 3.6Mb per second (average speeds of 1Mb per second are more likely).
