T-Mobile launches Euro broadband boosters

MOBILE NETWORK OPERATOR T-Mobile is offering its customers the ability to connect to the Internet while abroad without having to surrender the contents of their wallet and a body part for the expensive privilege.

The company introduced its Euro Broadband Boosters, explaining that by using them customers could get a connection for as little as £1. It added that fixed prices would mean that no one would return from their holiday only to find that they'd blown their mortgage deposit on watching BBC Iplayer.

There are four options to choose from. A quid will get you 3MB or about 15 minutes of email checking, a fiver will get you 20MB, enough for a couple of hours of staring at Facebook with a mooncalf expression, a tenner earns you a whole day's worth of browsing, while if you pay £40 you can schlep around Europe for a whole month, microblogging at every step of your journey. All but the £40 version expire after a day, whether you have used them or not.

Users can log into a T-Mobile web page to check how much time they have left, so let's pray for T-Mobile's sake that it is one of the fastest loading pages ever created.

Ralf Pearson, senior propositions manager for mobile broadband at T-Mobile said, "We want customers to be able to get the most from our Mobile Broadband service. As 40 percent say they want to take their laptop away with them to stay connected, we're launching Euro Broadband Boosters so they can do this without having to worry about the costs getting out of control. With this proposition, we're offering these customers a range of better value, worry-free options, built to suit their different on-line needs while they're in the most popular travel destinations".

The boosters will be available from the start of March. Just in time for the Spring holidays. µ