3 piles on the pressure with £49 mobile broadband dongle offer

Have a read of this — just got it in from 3:

3 is now offering its most competitive Mobile Broadband deal to customers by reducing the price of its Pay As You Go USB Modems (or Dongles) to £49.99 – a saving of £50 on the original price point.

The new retail price for the black and green ZTE Dongle and the Huawei E220 Dongles will be available in-store, from www.three.co.uk and by calling 0800 358 7278 from 1st May.

With the current Pay As You Go price plan customers can get a 1GB data allowance with a £10 Add-on, 3GB with a £15 Add-on and 7GB with a £25 Add-on. Each Add-on lasts for 30 days.

3’s most popular 3GB package allows users to send up to 2000 plain text emails, do 100 hours of surfing the web, and download an additional 100 two minute video and 200 music tracks.

So, in the UK, if you want to get mobile broadband without a contract, just stump up £49.99 and you’re done. Obviously you need to top up with a tenner whenever you want to use your dongle, but this is brilliant, brilliant pricing.

Three really are trailblazing the mobile broadband marketplace. I’ve no doubt that the dongles will be flying out the shops even quicker now. They’ve definitely caught a lot of other operators sleeping. Vodafone reacted strongly with their £15/month offer — and T-Mobile, originally one of the leading lights, has been very slow to catch on. Orange is nowhere to be seen with a recent offering.

As for o2, I confess I haven’t actually seen their offering as yet. I’m sure they have one… 😉

If you were thinking about a Three dongle for when you visit the UK or if you’d just like-to-have-one for the bottom of your laptop bag, then get yourself into your nearest 3 shop tomorrow morning.