There are four main offers available from O2 and these are pretty much the same as most mobile broadband companies these days.  You can get a free USB dongle and for just £10 a month for the first 4 months you can get online and pay monthly.  Then there’s the pay as you go mobile broadband option.  This is pretty popular with casual surfers and young people who don’t have as much expendable income as they’d like.  After your initial purchase of the dongle (at £20 i think) you can be online for as little as £2 a day!  Then there is the business class mobile broadband deal.  I can never understand the difference between the business deals usually but this one does seems to offer a little bit more of an incentive.  It’s cheaper per month for the first 4 months than the monthly payment plan one i mentioned first, at just £8.51.  Then the business deal goes on to outline that you need to sign a 24 month contract, but for this you get 3GB and unlimited Wi-Fi.  And last but not least there is of course the free laptop deal.  O2 offer free laptops as competitive as the next mobile broadband supplier, and their latest offer gives you an Asus 1005 laptop computer for free when you sign up for a 24 month contract.  Compare O2 now.

You can actually get something as good as a Dell Inspirion laptop computer and unlimited downloads from Vodafone when you sign up for a 24 month contract for mobile broadband.  I don’t know if you have to return the laptop when you’re contract expires or not, but this could be a pretty good mobile broadband deal.  It would be very important to read the small print in your contract to make sure that you’re really getting a good deal.  And also, please consider that when you sign a mobile broadband contract like this, in order to get a free laptop, then it is more than likely going to be around £30 per month for 24 months; that’s 2 years to us ordinary folk who like to say year because it sounds much longer!

That works out at £720 for a laptop and mobile broadband for 2 years.  It doesn’t sound too bad actually, but then again you might (if you shop around a little) get a laptop cheaper than that, and then be able to get a dongle and mobile broadband from another supplier.

It’s a common enough mistake, so if you’ve done it don’t worry.  We can all be victims of the dreadful parasite advertisers that prey on out consumer driven personalities these days.  Mobile broadband is no different than any other thing for sale this Christmas, and mobile broadband providers will try to rip you off in exactly the same way as the toys and games industry will.  Where there is an opportunity to sell people stuff they don’t really need (like Christmas) these scumbags are out there like pickpockets on a London street in 1858!

So watch out for these glitzy mobile broadband advertisements on the television and in the magazines and newspapers; in fact watch out everywhere for them; they are quite literally like parasites.

We all know that wireless internet is as part of our culture now as drinking wine at dinner, but there is no need to bombard consumers with wireless broadband advertisements constantly.  In the wireless broadband supplier’s world we would all be signed up to a mobile broadband package that costs us £25 a month for the rest of our life!  Even the pay as you go mobile broadband are at it.  There is a con on every corner.

The only way to get the mobile internet you actually want is to reseach thoroughly.  Look around this site and others, and make an informed decision based on your needs, and not your impulses!