The news of the offer by NatWest to give students banking with them £50 off 3’s mobile broadband has been given the SMS Text News treatment.

Patrick writes the piece, making amusing references to his own and Ewan Macleod’s student days. It seems Patrick’s younger days revolved around cider and 40 winks in the library, whereas Ewan applied for a student account back in the days when the only extras you got were a smile, book vouchers and a railcard. Can you believe that? Apparently people in banks used to smile?!

Anyway, Patrick sees the offer as trying to entice the “tech-savvy” student who is aware of the advantages of a laptop and constant connectivity, so much so as to see them as a necessity. They also kindly link through to the relevant section of the NatWest site, just as I have done in the middle of this sentence.