Background - With almost 17 million mobile phone customers in the UK, T-Mobile (www.T-Mobile.co.uk) has its history in the mobile sector. T-Mobile is the first operator to offer a pay-as-you-go mobile broadband for laptops, available to both T-Mobile voice customers and non-voice customers, eliminating the need for a BT landline and allowing you to connect no matter where you are. It also offers monthly plans for people who are heavy mobile broadband users.
Awards - As it isn’t a fixed-line broadband provider, T-Mobile isn’t included in ISPA or Epitiro awards. However, it was awarded the 2007 “Consumer Operator of the Year” award by Mobile magazine, partly for its Web n’ Walk mobile broadband.
It also took silver in the “Consumer Innovator of the Year” category for Web n’ Walk, which the judges described as “some of the best value for money internet access”.
Suitability - -Mobile’s new Web n’ Walk Plus Daily offers people a taster of mobile broadband without having to commit to a lengthy contract. So if you’re a sporadic user or you’re just not sure whether you really want it, you can take your laptop mobile for a maximum of £4 a day.
It has also reduced the price of its pay-monthly mobile broadband packages for customers signing up to 24-month contracts. This means that if you are a heavy user and you know that you’ll be needing mobile broadband over the next two years, you can cut your costs on the Web n’ Walk Plus and Web n’ Walk Max plans.
Our verdict - T-Mobile uses HSPDA technology which currently allows customers to access speeds of up to 3.6Mb, but it is planning on increasing this to an impressive 7.2Mb later this year. This offers excellent speeds to customers who travel a lot – to meetings or to visit friends and family – and need to take their internet with them.
The pay-as-you-go option is a great offer for anyone who doesn’t want to commit to a set monthly payment for something that they might not use all the time and accessing the internet in this way also allows you to forgo the £11 a month you would otherwise have to pay for a landline on an ADSL connection. | 
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