Mobile,High Speed Broadband Services,Mobile Downloads

With today’s competition for declining mobile broadband sales becoming increasingly competitive, it isn’t surprising that 3 are temping customers with an offer they can’t refuse; a free 2GB iPod Shuffle worth £44 when they purchase mobile broadband.

Customers signing up to either 3’s 5GB or 15GB mobile broadband packages will receive Comet vouchers to the value of the iPod to allow them to purchase the iPod directly from Comet, together with a free USB modem and free delivery with their order.

Customers are given a time period of 12 months to redeem their vouchers at Comet which will be reassuring for those customers are might be suspicious that this offer simply sounds too good to be true.

The mobile broadband package costing customers a reasonable £15 per month is one of the most competitive deals out there at the moment, although a decent mobile broadband package for a light user can be obtained for less than £10 per month at present, with a free USB modem and free delivery.

We have recently seen O2 also resorting to giving away a free mobile phone with all mobile broadband pay monthly contracts, which was a huge success with their Sony Ericsson T280i worth £50 selling out and subsequently being replaced by the Nokia 2630.

Many companies now offer laptops when mobile broadband is purchased too, which reflects how keen these companies are for sales in the current economical climate.

O2 were also the first provider to offer home broadband and mobile broadband bundled together for less than £20 per month.

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Which all the networks should have to some degree by the end of this year – it boosts the upload speed to as much as 1.4Mbits/sec. nother welcome bit of news is if you don’t want to be tied to a contract, you don’t have to be ripped off, either. Orange, Be careful if you roam – remember the  widely publicised case of the chap who ended up with an £11,000 bill for a mobile download of a TV show’ of compact models available from other networks. When it comes to speed, Vodafone and Orange both claim speeds of ‘up to’ 7.2Mbits/sec, with 3 claiming 2.8Mbits/sec. But it all depends on exactly where you are in the UK; even on the networks that offer higher speeds, it’s worth checking coverage  carefully before parting with your cash -especially as the best prices are often for 18-or 24-month contracts. You may very often find that speeds will drop back to 1.4Mbits/sec Vodafone all have ‘daily’ tariffs, where you just pay when you use the modem; Orange charge £8.23 for  a day’s access, with a 1GB download limit, and £58 for the USB modem.                                                                                                                             On T-Mobile you’ll pay £99.99 for  the modem, and £4 per day for 1GB, while Vodafone charge £175 for its USB modem and £9.99 for a day, with a 500MB download cap. 3 offers a slightly different pricing structure based on top-up vouchers, where you  pay £99.99 for the modem and then for £10 you can buy 30 days’ pay as you go access, with 1GB over the 30-day period. If you need mobile access for a few days at a time, it can be cheaper than the alternatives – and it’ll Include roaming on 3 networks in Ireland, Austria, Italy and Hong Kong – but heavy users might prefer the  per-day limits and charges of the other networks. But whatever option you choose, be careful if you roam abroad: remember the widely publicised case of the chap who ended up with an £11,000 bill for a mobile download of a TV show, due to the download resuming while he was on a business trip in Germany, where he incurred a £4.99 per MB roaming charge