Through the back pages of 3mobilebuzz there was occasional discussion on the possibility of dongle world domination, especially if mobile broadband was being built in to laptops as standard, i.e. a slot for a sim card.

At Broadband-Finder they’ve written about a piece of research that backs this up. Carried out by Berg Insight the research presented in a published report estimates that the current number of laptops with mobile broadband connectivity, a measly 8.4 million will boom to 49 million by 2013. This is working on the integrated laptops being good to go within the next few years. The advent of the mobile broadband dongle as Broadband-Finder points out indicates that in terms of technology we are ready for this jump.

It is intriguing stuff predicting the future of mobile technologies, and the implications for service providers. The full article is here.