Today we’re going to look at a couple of mobile broadband suppliers and detail just what they’ve got on offer.

The first one we’re looking at is 3 Mobile, and their deal goes like this:

• £15 a month.  Seems like a reasonable price depending on what else is on offer.
• 24 month contract.  This is quite a long contract to be signing up for considering that the rate in which new technologies come out and the rate in which offers change and develop are very rapid.  When you’re tied down for 2 years you could miss some seriously good deals.
• Download allowance at 15GB
• Speeds of up to 7.2MB
• Free delivery and money back guarantee for 14 days.

The other one we’re looking at is the good old fashioned Vodafone:

• £15 a month.  Again perfectly reasonable, and the same as 3 Mobile
• 1 month contract length.  This is much more reasonable considering the speed at which this mobile broadband industry moves these days.  A one month contract keeps everyone on their toes.
• Downloads of 3GB.  This isn’t so good really and is virtually no good at all for hardcore gamers and music downloaders etc.  However, if you’re careful you can get away with it.
• Speed of up to 7.2MB

So there you have them.  I wouldn’t claim to tell you which i thought was best, but i just know that i don’t like signing long contracts.  People these days are always wary of contracts.

Those who already use mobile broadband are primarily those who use their laptops on the way to work because there aren’t enough hours in the day, and young internet users who often don’t have a permanent residence anyway in which to have a desktop system and a landline; these sort of youngsters are usually students or those of about the same age and slightly over.

But when you consider that all those students are using mobile broadband on their wireless devices, then imagine how many of the older generation will be using them when this lot get older.  Then they in turn will breed another generation of mobile broadband users who have never known a world without it; indeed, my daughter cannot believe that i lived in a time when there was no internet at all!

So wireless broadband will become the future and we will all be forced along with it, simply because not to be a part of it is folly; soon we won’t be able to function without the internet, and no-one wants to be left behind do they?

I just choose to have it with me because i like to surf the internet and i love to chat with my family on webcam, instant messaging and email.  Mobile broadband allows me to do this easily when i’m on the train, sometimes even on the plane, and i can also access all this when i’m in another country.

I can’t tolerate a slow internet connection when i’m using a webcam for the simple reason it looks as though the person i’m talking to needs to catch up with the words they’ve just spoken!

The trouble is finding one that suits your needs best of all.  And that’s what there are websites like this for.  I found my mobile broadband deal with a site like this and that’s why i’m writing this for you.  You want to be able to keep in touch and surf the net don’t you?  But you don’t want to pay through the nose for it do you? Of course you don’t.  So that’s why you can compare mobile broadband deals right now online.

But there are times that i need internet on the go, and mobile broadband is what i have.  I am connected on my laptop just incase i am out and need to send documents or catch up on emails etc.

But moving onto another user of mobile broadband, we can examine my daughter’s usuage a little closer.  She would primarily use her mobile broadband for social networking sites.  She will even type messages to one of her friends on a social network site whilst she is in the same room as her; it sounds crazy but apparently they like that these days.  It’s a good job she takes care of her own mobile broadband with a pay as you go package.  I couldn’t afford to keep her online everywhere she goes all the time.  She also spends an awful lot of time downloading music.  Now this is especially useful to her because she stores all her tunes on her laptop.  Having mobile broadband allows her to check in with her friends and then download the same songs as they have and stuff like that apparently; personally i’d just copy my friend’s files (don’t tell anyone i said that, it’s probably illegal).

I am an engineer of heating equipment, and i travel all over the world fixing very big heating appliances etc.  It’s a pretty dull job, and i don’t really know what i’m doing, but it’s all there on one of those massive question and answer databases that diagnose and repair machinery.  All they need me for is to basically turn on my wireless internet connection and type in the problem.  Then the database will consider all the variables and tell me what to do.  The only reason the company hire me to go along with my laptop and toolbox is so that they can charge their customers a great big fee for labour; in reality anyone could consult this online database and fix their own machinery.  It’s quite sad really.  It works on the same principal as those little cards you can sometimes see at the fast food places that tell the staff to: smile, take order, smile, give change, smile etc.

But i suppose if it wasn’t for my wireless internet connection i’d be without this job, and i’d see a lot less of the world than what i do now.  How the world has evolved into a strange place.

This, i can only reasonably conclude, must be because i never had the opportunies to learn computer and research skills that my wife now has access to.  I had to do all my computer activities in the lounge when i was a kid, and it wasn’t the most popular thing to be doing when my mother’s favourite soap operas came on the TV set.  Despite all that, mobile broadband didn’t even exist then (or at least for regular people like us).

My wife was never interested in computers when she was a youngster so she couldn’t really comment on how things have changed, but she is happy to take full advantage of what wireless internet can do for her today.  Now i always see her with her laptop in the most bizarre of places.  Her wireless broadband connection has enabled her to chat to her friends online while she sits on the toilet of all places.  She does our shopping from Tesco in the garden, when the weather is good, and she was even in the attic the other day, shopping for Christmas decorations!  In fact, since my wife found mobile broadband, i don’t get much attention anymore; perhaps i should take her back to the 1980s when times were much harder!

So why not introduce it to them early?  It’s the perfect thing to do for them this Christmas, in fact at any time really.  I couldn’t put a particular age on it, but if i was forced to choose, i’d say that kids are responsible to use mobile broadband with the correct parental controls enabled by the age of ten i suppose.

My daughter has been using mobile broadband for a few years now and one of the greatest things i’ve noticed is her increased willingness to complete her homework; simply because she isn’t restricted to the house, or if she is in the house, she needn’t be in the same room!  This mobile broadband use has another bonus attached.  It means that my wife and i can use our home PC more often, and have a little more adult time together (not what you think), because we can send our daughter packing into another room to surf the internet, or even to another house!

Don’t neglect your kids and leave them in the dark ages of technology.  Kids today are learning Information technology from a very early age.  I have a six year old that can do all sorts of things on a computer.  Mobile broadband is as fundamental these days to computing as footwear is for walking.

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!

The thing is you see, ever since in learned about mobile broadband, and saw my first mobile broadband ready phone, i’ve been looking at the technology advances (in a very layman way!)  It appears to me that there is pretty much the same in a mobile phone that offers mobile broadband facilities as there is sitting on your desktop at home.

We all have, or have had, a modem on our desk or screwed to our wall at some point in time, and it was a logical progression to see the modem appear inside a phone, providing wireless internet on the move.  All they did was shrink the whole package didn’t they?  Really?  They did.  Obviously there are other different design feature, but basically, again in layman terms, all they did was shrink it all.

Well with this mobile broadband design in mind, we could posit that the next stage may actually be to give ourselves wireless broadband wthout the use of any hand held gadgets.  How does that sit with you all?  I think that mobile broadband will be brought to the masses by shrinking it again.  And when they have it as small as it can go, mobile broadband providers will compete with each other in order to implant their mobile broadband devices inside our heads.

Just think for a moment why people would need mobile broadband, and indeed why people would want mobile broadband.  Have you any idea what it’s used for?

• Business purposes
• In the event of an emergency
• Navgation perhaps
• Or just keeping in touch with friends

Alright, i’ve got another one for all you potential mobile broadband buyers out there.  What about porno?  Shocked?  Well you shouldn’t be really.  Apparently about a fifth of iPhone users are downloading porn from the internet with their mobile broadband.  And i am bring this information to you just to let you know that mobile broadband has another string to its bow; i am not endorsing internet porn, but if people want it they will get it, and they will have things made a lot easier and more convenient by getting themselves a mobile broadband connection.

But of course you good people don’t look for mobile broadband pornography do you?  No, i know it for a fact.  Neither do i!  I’m merely looking at all the possible combinations and advantages for a diverse group of prospecitve buyers.  You do what you want with your mobile broadband.