After having had about all she can put up with from using her handset as a bluetooth modem - unreliable, fiddly and expensive (her words not mine), Sarah - The Bringer of Tea has dunked into the mobile broadband market with a 3 dongle.

Opting for a data limit of 1GB a month at £10 monthly for a year and half, Sarah talks about how quick the in-store sign-up and transaction was and, on returning home, this was pleasantly replicated by the installation process. Since then, the service has been “snappy”, admittedly not as fast as the home connection, but not far off. And this is causing her to ponder; with 7GB data limits available (about the same amount of data Sarah goes through on her home account) at a cheaper rate, how long before mobile broadband will start putting the squeeze on ASDL and Cable providers? She may well have a point.