There are mobile providers that would like to give mobile broadband sales some momentum by giving away laptops effectively for no initial payment for a set 1-2 year contract and a fixed monthly payment. These deals are usually giving a limited amount of mobile broadband usage on 3G networks and are usually promoted in the United Kingdom.

First deal I’d like to mention is of the provider Three. They give out a Compaq Presario CQ61 Notebook for £30 a month over 24 months. This is a 15” laptop with the usual stuff that are found in value desktop replacement notebooks. It comes with a 1.8ghz dual core Intel processor, 3 gigabytes of memory, a 250 gigabytes hard drive and a 1366 x 768 resolution screen.

The broadband plan promises a 5gb allowance a month which is more than enough to browse social networking or news sites. Email traffic is of no problem with this monthly bandwidth limit at 3.6 Mbit/second nominal speed. An average user consumes about 2-3 gigabytes a month without going all out on internet radio stations or video streaming services. The offer is valid until 28th of February 2010, but knowing where the mobile market heads I am comfortable with saying it most probably will change for the better. Great to have competition on the market, isn’t it.

Second offer I’d like to touch comes from O2. They give you the ever so popular Asus 1005HA netbook with 10 gigabytes of mobile broadband an 500 mbytes of wi-fi coverage for just £35 a month. I know for sure that this asus laptop would make a great companion while on the move, and that is the reason I can recommend this product without thinking twice. For £25 a month you can get 3 gigabytes of data transfer which also should be enough for any average surfer, optionally the offer with similar parameters is available from Orange as well.

Vodafone opted for the dell mini 10 in their free laptop promotion, which is a very solid netbook at the moment, I have no reason not to suggest having one of these. For around £25 similar specs to the O2 offer with Asus 1005ha are available.

Alternatively you can google for latest free laptop mobile broadband deals to have a more recent picture about the market.

As you can see these laptops are not entirely free, but they are as close to it as laptop gets.

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