Mobile Broadband Dongles Sales Soar
The mobile broadband dongle has recently turned out to be a must-have gadget, as its popularity is on the rise constantly. This is more than evident from the latest news that 3 Broadband, a mobile broadband ISP in the UK has sold around a million mobile broadband dongles, if not more.
The mobile broadband dongle that is a miniature USB device that not only provides internet, but also offers data storage space, has been a runaway success, very much unlike some other 3G applications that had crashed hopelessly.
A significant fact that was brought to light by expert broadband analysts was that the mobile broadband dongles put forth by 3 Broadband UK, as well as its rivals posed a potential threat to not only the broadband service providing companies like BT who resorted to traditional phone lines, but also to the Wi-Fi hot spot providers.
The consistent decline of the prices for mobile broadband dongles also adds to the cause. As a matter of fact, the dongle prices have taken a nose dive from around GBP 100 to less than GBP 50, in a span of one year. It is also significant that in many cases ISPs offered them for free of cost.
The mobile broadband dongle is well known for its user friendliness, as well as its unsophisticated start up. A user simply required to plug the dongle into his laptop’s USB port to start using it. There was simply no need of any forceful configuration.
Today, all the major mobile broadband service providers, such as Orange, O2, 3 Broadband, T-Mobile and Vodafone has laid the focus on the mobile broadband dongle market. It cannot be left unobserved as well the fact that today, out of a total mobile broadband users amounting to 495 million, in the European Union, 13 percent used data cards or dongles.
