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3 Mobile Broadband Offers 15GB Data Allowance
3 UK (three.co.uk) has announced the return of its super-sized 15GB mobile broadband data allowance at a price of just £15 a month.
The 15GB allowance is available with two mobile broadband packages, both of which offer download speeds up to 7.2Mbps plus a free modem which connects a customers laptop or netbook to the 3 network.
Customers can choose either an 18 or 24 month contract option with prices set at £20 per month and £15 a month respectively.
3’s 15GB monthly data allowance is enough to send 15,000 emails a month, surf the Internet for 150 hours, download 75 four minute videos and download 480 four minute music tracks.
The super-sized data allowance is also available with 3’s Mi-Fi, laptop and iPod Touch bundle sales.
Readers can find out more at the three.co.uk website or our 3 Mobile Broadband review.
BE Broadband To Offer Home Phone Packages
Award-winning provider BE Broadband (bethere.co.uk) has announced plans to launch its own home phone packages and landline service within the next 6 months.
The new home phone service will benefit from the company’s award-winning customer service and enable new and existing customers to choose from a range of broadband and phone bundles.
Commenting on the news, Tom Williams, Head of BE Broadband, said: “We have received a lot of demand from our members about offering a landline phone service, and the plans we have announced today are a response to this demand”.
Williams continued: “As with other new products such as our line bonding service, which offers speeds of up to 48Mbs download, we will be rolling out a trial to a select number of BE members to make sure that the service will be a viable option to roll out across our entire customer base”.
Willimans ended by saying: “We know how many of our customers value the premium experience they get through BE’s broadband packages, and by bringing the same quality and levels of customer service to a landline phone proposition we hope to bring added value to customers who are already delighted with our broadband service”.
No pricing information has yet to be revealed by BE Broadband though it is expected to be competitive with O2’s new home phone service that launched earlier this week. BE’s parent company is O2.
BE Broadband prices start from £13.79 a month for up to 8Mbps speeds with an unlimited monthly download usage allowance. Upload speeds up to 1.3Mbps are possible.
BE Broadband was recently credited with the fastest average download and upload speeds in the market by PC Advisor.
Readers can find out more about BE at the bethere.co.uk website.
Orange Mobile Broadband Deals Get Animal Refresh
Orange (orange.co.uk) has extended its popular animal plans to its mobile broadband packages with the launch of Racoon, Dolphin and Panther.
Designed to help new customers select a mobile broadband plan that best suits their lifestyle, the new animal mobile broadband packages are now available across all Orange retail channels including telesales (0800 072 4136), Orange shops and online at orange.co.uk.
Orange Racoon Mobile Broadband is designed for light internet use with prices starting from £5 a month for 500MB’s of data usage a month over an 18 month contract.
Other Racoon options include 1.5GB’s of data for £10 a month or for those customers wanting a 1 month rolling contract, there’s a £10 a month plan that offers 1GB of data.
Orange Panther Mobile Broadband is for heavy internet use and is designed for users wanting to use their dongle as their primary internet connection, either at home or on the move.
Prices start from £25 a month for 10GB’s of data use per month on a 1 month rolling contract, while there’s also £35 a month tariff on an 18 month contract that provides an unlimited monthly download usage allowance, subject to a fair use policy.
Orange Dolphin Mobile Broadband sits in between Racoon and Panther and provides customers with an additional mobile broadband ‘Happy Hour’ where users can have an hour of unlimited internet use per day. This could be the morning commute (8am-9am) lunchtime, late afternoon or late at night.
Dolphin tariffs start from £15 a month for 3GB’s of data allowance per month over an 18 month contract. Users can opt for a 1 month contract and pay £15 a month for a 2GB allowance.
A free orange dongle (the Huawei E1752) is included in all 18 month contracts, while those customers opting for a 1 month contract must pay a one-off £29.99.
Commenting on the refresh, Asif Aziz, Director of Broadband and Home at Orange UK said: “Our mobile animal plans have been extremely popular as they allow customers to quickly select the right package which is best for them – so we’ve decided to extend these to our mobile broadband range – making it easier for customers to find the tariff that meets their digital needs and which is best suited to their personal lifestyle”.
Orange mobile broadband offers download speeds up to 7.2Mbps and is the UK’s number one mobile broadband provider for the third consecutive quarter according to YouGov’s latest dongle tracker survey.
Readers interested in Orange’s new animal mobile broadband plans can find out more at the orange.co.uk website or call Orange on 0800 072 4136.
O2 Broadband And Phone Deals Launch For £9.50
O2 (o2.co.uk/niggles) has today launched its first broadband AND phone packages for the home with prices, including telephone line rental, starting from just £9.50 a month.
The packages offer new and existing O2 Broadband customers straight forward pricing with the convenience of having both O2 Home Phone and O2 Home Broadband consolidated into one simple bill. Telephone line rental is also included.
New customers are able to use O2’s current 3 months free broadband offer and thus switch their broadband, home phone calls and telephone line rental to O2 and pay from £9.50 a month for the first 3 months, followed by £17 a month after. Non O2 mobile customers will need to pay £22 a month after.
Commenting on the launch, O2 Marketing Director, Sally Cowdry, said: “At O2, we’ve been listening to our customers and we’ve realised that many of them want great value, an end to hidden costs and the convenience of being able to pay their home phone and broadband bills together”.
Cowdry continued: “That is exactly what they will get from us now we have launched Home Phone – truly transparent and flexible pricing plans and convenient consolidated billing. O2 is committed to providing the same quality of service with Home Phone that we have established with our broadband over the years”.
O2’s launch of its new home phone and broadband packages follows the company’s successful venture into the UK’s broadband market in 2007.
Readers can find out more about the new packages at the o2.co.uk/niggles website or our O2 Broadband and Phone review.
Plusnet Broadband Launch 4 Months Free Offer
Plusnet has announced the launch of a four months free broadband offer that is exclusively available online at the plus.net website.
The online offer applies to the Plusnet Value and Extra broadband packages and is available till the 18th May.
Plusnet Value Broadband, with download speeds up to 8Mb is the company’s entry level broadband package usually costing from £6.49 a month. The package offers a generous 10GB monthly usage limit plus free overnight downloads between midnight and 8am.
Plusnet Extra Broadband, (usual price from £11.49 a month) has higher speeds up to 20Mbps together with a 60GB download usage cap. Free overnight downloads between midnight and 8am are also included.
The four months free broadband offer also applies to new customers ordering online one of Plusnet’s broadband and home phone deals.
Plusnet has been providing broadband internet access to UK homes for over 10 years and is highly regarded within the market for its quality of service and value for money.
Readers considering switching their broadband supplier to Plusnet can find out more at the plus.net website or our Plusnet Broadband review.
O2 Add Laptops With Built In Mobile Broadband
O2 (www.o2.co.uk/laptops) has added two new laptops with built in mobile broadband to its range of mobile broadband free laptop packages.
Exclusive to O2, the two new laptops with embedded SIM cards are the Samsung N150 netbook, which is available online now and the Asus UL30A laptop which will be available in May.
The Samsung N150 netbook is a great starter laptop or second device and comes well specified with a 250GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, 10.1″ screen and 6 hour battery life. It’s perfect for accessing the Internet on the move as it weighs just 1.26Kg.
Featuring the Windows 7 operating system, the netbook which currently retails at around £280, is available with built in O2 Mobile Broadband speeds up to 3.6Mbps for just £25 a month. A one-off set up fee of £29.99 applies.
Customers opting for this mobile broadband and laptop package will get a 3GB monthly download usage allowance plus 500MB of Wi-Fi usage per month at 7,500 hotspots in the UK via The Cloud and BT Openzone.
The package also features an extended two year warranty for the netbook, 30 days O2 Techies support, McAfee Internet Security for the duration of the contract and O2’s 30 day ‘Happiness Guarantee’ which enables customers to return the laptop at no additional cost if they are not satisfied.
Commenting on the launch, O2’s Head of Home and Broadband, Felix Geyr, said: “We know that customers want to be able to click and go without the hassle of having to load up a mobile broadband dongle and our new range will make surfing the web and staying in touch even easier”.
Geyr continued: “The laptop market has exploded in the last 18 months and we believe these two laptops from Asus and Samsung will once again give O2 customers a great experience”.
Interested readers can find further information at the www.o2.co.uk/laptops website or at our Mobile Broadband Free Laptop comparison service.
