Top 5 UK "Free Laptop" Broadband Deals

"Free" laptops that are advertised with numerous broadband deals are not free per se. Instead, users end up paying for them through their monthly contract payments - which act like regular installments.

We've rounded up five of UK's top free Laptop and Netbook mobile broadband deals which should cover the needs of the increasingly numerous party of people who choose to access internet on the move.

(1) £20 Three Mobile Broadband Package

Simple and straight forward. If you are a light user and want to get the cheapest mobile broadband package on the market, then try the Compaq Mini 700 and Three's 1GB mobile broadband package. For £20 per month (over 24 months), you end up paying £480. The cost of the laptop is around £300 which means that the true cost of the broadband package is around £7.50 - instead of the usual £10 per month. The Compaq Mini 700 is certainly one of the better netbooks out there with a large 10.2-inch LCD screen, a 60GB HDD and a Bluetooth. What's more, the modem - which comes with a microSD slot - is free and 3 even throws 100 web texts in the package. Find out more here.

(2) £40 unlimited mobile broadband package from T-Mobile

If you can afford £40 per month for a mobile broadband offer, then consider this 24-months, T-Mobile proposition which offers a broadband speed of up to 4.5mbps and includes unlimited download. There's a fair usage policy which is not fully explained on Carphone Warehouse. However, T-Mobile says that " If you use more than your fair use policy amount, we won't charge you any more, but we may restrict how you can use your plan, depending on how often you go over your amount and by how much."

As long as you don't do VoIP and file-sharing, that should not be problem. Carphone Warehouse offers a Sony Vaio NS20E Silver laptop, which normally costs around £470. It is a 15.4-inch laptop with a Core 2 Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, a webcam and a 250GB hard disk drive. The overall cost of your broadband package would therefore be £20.41 per month.