Despite seemingly conforming to Our Man in Newcastle’s pledge:

“I hereby pledge that I, Our Man in Newcastle, will never post to my blog/Twitter/Facebook etc from an airport/coffeehouse/conference to comment on the availability, or quality of, WIFI.”

Stephen Newton has broken any alliance he may have had, blogging from a moving train via his 3 mobile broadband dongle and telling us so.

Deciding that despite the possibility of a slower connection through mobile broadband Stephen sees the dongle positively. Believing that this is balanced by the price, especially when you consider how expensive WIFI access can get.

He did have signal issues going beyond Bolton on the Manchester to Preston line and felt that the device needed to be less dependent on user intervention regarding dropping connection and getting reconnected. However, this was not enough to put him off, describing the dongle as “Great for when you’re on the move.”