1. You’ve got the web everywhere
No more wasting hours hunting out Wi–Fi hotspots. Snag yourself a 3 mobile broadband deal and you’ll be able to hop onto the web wherever you plonk your laptop. Work when you want, or just have a giggle at the latest YouTube hits.
2. No more lengthy contracts
Grab a PAYG 3 mobile broadband deal, and kiss goodbye to monthly bills draining your bank account. For just £19.99 you can snaffle the ZTE MF627 USB Modem. Top up £10 and you’ll get 1GB of data. That’s 10 hours of web surfing or the chance to indulge your download habit, letting you gobble up 32 four minute tracks.
3. It’ll save you a fortune
Replace your home broadband completely with 3’s killer monthly priceplans. You can sign a monthly contract, which you can cancel when you like, with 5GB of online dabbling for £15. Or get an epic 15GB a month for just £20 a month on an 18 month deal. Either way, mobile broadband tariffs on 3 are great value compared to their fixed, home–based brethren.
4. Free laptops
3 mobile broadband doesn’t just let you surf. It gives you free gadget goodies too. For a mere £30 a month, you can clamp your clammy mitts on a stunning Samsung NC10 laptop. That includes 5GB of web time. And if your credit’s feeling crunched, then the Acer Aspire 150b comes in at just £17.50 a month for 1GB of data. Now that’s a bargain!
5. You can tie it in with your mobile priceplan
Scribble your name down for a 3 pay monthly mobile and 3 will knock 25 per cent off of your mobile broadband deal. Now that’s not the kind of thing you’re going to find from home broadband types, is it?
6. No more BT landline
Grab 3 mobile broadband, and your old–school landline is looking more obsolete than an old VCR. With mobile broadband you can surf when you want, and a 3 mobile priceplan will kill off your landline once and for all.
7. You get stacks of choice
Don’t do much surfing? Then don’t pay out a fortune. 3 mobile broadband deals vary from just a tenner a month for 1GB of downloading, up to just £20 a month for a massive 15GB. Whatever you pick, you get a great deal.
8. Free calls through Skype
You’ll find Skype on 3 phones. But you can get Skype on your PC too, And that means you can make free calls to your pals via your laptop when your phone’s buried in your bag.
9. It’s a breeze to set up
Routers, passcodes and new hardware. Setting up home broadband is a right faff. But with 3 mobile broadband, all you need to do is plug in the dongle and wait for it to install. Click ‘Connect’ and you’re away.
10. It’s speedy
Mobile broadband is just as fast as its fixed line sibling. You’ll get 3.6Mbps. Compare that to the measly UK average of just 2Mbps and you’re looking at a far smarter way to surf the web on your laptop.
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