Broadband News & Mobile Broadband News

O2 (o2.co.uk) has announced a half price offer on its pre-pay mobile broadband dongles.

Customers can now order either a white, black or pink pre-pay dongle for a one-off £10 and then top up as and when they need to with the mobile broadband data usage they require.

Users can pay £2 per day for 500MB’s of data usage, £7.50 per week for 1GB or £15 per month for 3GB. No contract is required.

Unlimited access to 7,500 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country with The Cloud and BT Openzone is also included.

Last month O2’s mobile broadband network was ranked number one for mobile broadband speeds in an independent speed test conducted by Siroda.

New customers have until the 11th March 2010 to order the half price O2 dongle.

Readers can find out more about the offer at the o2.co.uk website or our O2 Mobile Broadband review service.

O2 (o2.co.uk) has launched a 3 months free mobile broadband offer that saves customers up to £45.

The new incentive applies to its 1GB and 3GB mobile broadband packages that are both available on an 18 month contract.

O2’s 1GB tariff offers mobile broadband speeds up to 3.6Mbps with a 1GB monthly data usage allowance. Free for the first 3 months, the price reverts to just £10 a month after.

O2’s 3GB data tariff provides similar broadband speeds up to 3.6Mbps but with a higher 3GB download usage cap. This package costs £15 a month after first 3 months free incentive.

Both mobile broadband packages include a free O2 USB modem E169 (the O2 dongle). The modem is both MAC and PC compatible and automatically connects to the fastest available network speed.

There’s also unlimited access to over 7,500 Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK with The Cloud and BT Openzone.

O2 offers a free next day delivery service and operates a 14 day return guarantee.

Its network recently came out top in a mobile broadband speed test conducted by independent network specialists Siroda.

Readers can find out more about the 3 months free offer at the o2.co.uk website or our O2 Mobile Broadband review.

O2 (o2.co.uk) has come out top in a mobile broadband speed test conducted by network specialists Siroda.

The tests measured the music download and web page loading speeds of the UK’s five mobile broadband providers at peak times.

Lasting over a 2 month period, the tests in 150 different locations across the UK, found O2 to be top for downloading a music track – with the fastest speed recorded in 12 out of 20 UK cities.

In second place was Vodafone, followed by T-Mobile and 3.

In London, O2 topped the fastest web page loading speeds, with O2’s Chief Technology Officer, Derek McManus saying: “Our London customers are now seeing the benefits of the investment we made before Christmas, where we spent £30m delivering 40 new sites”.

Over the rest of the UK, O2 came out second for web page loading speeds, just behind Vodafone who top the speed test league in 5 UK cities.

O2 mobile broadband is available on a 1, 18, or 24 month contact with prices starting from £10 a month for speeds up to 3.6Mbps.

Customers can choose either a 3GB or 10GB data usage allowance on the 18 and 24 month contracts, while 500MB, 1GB and 3GB options are offered on the short 1 month contract plan.

All O2 mobile broadband packages include access to 6,100 Wi-Fi hotspots, while a 30 day happiness guarantee is also offered.

Readers can find out more at the o2.co.uk website or our O2 Mobile Broadband review page.

O2 (www.o2.co.uk) has removed the £50 set up fee that applied to its two mobile broadband and free laptop packages available on a 24 month contract.

This means the Asus Eee PC 1005H netbook together with O2 Mobile Broadband speeds up to 3.6Mbps and a 3GB data usage allowance can now be ordered online as a bundle for just £25 a month.

O2’s other free laptop, the high specification Samsung R519, has a bundle price of £35 a month for a 3GB usage cap.

Customers requiring a higher 10GB monthly data usage allowance can opt to pay an additional £10 a month on either package.

An O2 dongle, technically known as the O2 USB modem E169, is also supplied free of charge.

The Asus 1005H netbook is a lightweight Wi-Fi enabled mini-laptop with a long battery life of up to three hours. It has a 10.2″ display, 1.6Ghz Intel processor, 160Gb hard drive and 1Gb RAM. Windows XP Home Edition is also installed.

The full size, high spec, Samsung R519 laptop is the perfect desktop PC replacement, coming with a Intel Pentium dual core processor, 250Gb hard drive and 2Gb of RAM.

This Wi-Fi enabled laptop also includes a webcam and has Windows Vista Home Premium installed.

Both free laptops have a 2 year warranty, unlimited Wi-Fi access using Wi-Fi hotspots across the UK (500MB for the Asus) and free O2 laptop support for 30 days.

Further information on these packages can be found at the www.o2.co.uk website or our O2 mobile broadband free laptop review.

O2 (o2.co.uk) has reduced the price of its pay as you go mobile broadband dongle to a one-off £20.

Previously £29, the O2 dongle connects a users laptop to the Internet via O2’s 3G network which provides mobile broadband speeds up to 3.6Mbps.

With no contract to worry about, users simply pay for usage as they go with options to buy mobile broadband access on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

This means users can pay either £2 per day for 500MB’s of data, £7.50 per week for 1GB of data, or £15 per month for 3GB.

Also included with the O2 dongle is unlimited access to 6,100 Wi-Fi hotspots across the UK and a 30 day Happiness guarantee.

The O2 dongle, (technically known as the O2 USB modem E160) is PC and MAC compatible and is available in either a white or pink colour.

Further information on the reduced price O2 dongle can be found at the o2.co.uk website or our Pay As You Go Mobile Broadband comparison.