60 hours of web surfing equals around 1.5 GB of download. Divided over the course of a month this would also equate to around 2 hours on the Internet every day. For many people this would be more than enough download time and bandwidth. For others such as myself it would be dreadfully insufficient. I mention this because recent developments in pay as you go mobile broadband plans allow for options of 1, 2 or 3 GB of mobile broadband download for a set price. Before you can try out any of the mobile broadband companies serving the United Kingdom’s pay per play plan’s you will need a dongle. For those unaware, a dongle is a simple device that your laptop or desktop computer uses to call into your mobile broadband provider’s Internet portal. A quick examination of pay as you go mobile broadband and dongles for laptops can be found at Broadband Choices, the United Kingdom’s leading broadband comparison website, reveals that for the moment pay as you go dongles are made available at just 10 pounds from O2 Mobile. A dongle purchased from other companies is approximately double this. While it is true that purchase of broadband in this piece meal fashion is more expensive in the short term it does allow one a low risk opportunity to try out service and determine true mobile broadband coverage from any UK provider. Once you determine whether or not mobile broadband works for you can then look into offers from the UK’s leading mobile broadband providers for free laptop deals. Most of these include a free dongle as well.