O2 – the mobile and mobile broadband provider – has introduced a 3G broadband USB modem ( mobile broadband dongle) for just £29.99 on a pay-as-you-go tariff, branding it as the best value mobile broadband offering for laptop users.
The O2 Mobile Broadband dongle USB modem plugs into the USB port of any PC or Mac laptop, enabling users to access the mobile internet at speeds up to 3.6Mbit/s from anywhere within reach of a cellular network signal.
The O2 Mobile Broadband Pay as you go tariffs start at £2 a day for a download allowance of up to 500MB, £7.50 a week for 1GB or £15 a month for 3GB.
Just what is PAYG broadband?
Well lets break that down into parts. PAYG and broadband. We’ll cover broadband first – it is easier.
Broadband
Broadband is the provision of broadband services via your home telephone (e.g. BT), home cable (e.g.Virgin Media) or mobile broadband dongle (e.g. vodafone). The term broadband is actual hard to define (different companies have different descriptions of fast internet services) but is intended to enable you to access the world-wide-web at considerably faster speeds than you would have had if you used to use ‘dial-up internet’. In the UK, broadband speeds are often advertised as ‘up to 8mb’ – that is the speed you access the internet per second. 8mb is actually pretty fast and sadly you are unlikely to get anywhere near those broadband speeds in the UK.
