Gadget of the Day – T-Mobile USB modem

That hastily stencilled-on T-Mobile logo can’t fool us. That there modem’s exactly the same one that Vodafone launched in November. But hold on what’s this on the price tag? £30 plus £29 a month for unlimited mobile broadband data? We cry, ‘bargain!’Yes, while Vodafone’s identical offering will set you back £49 plus £52.86 for unlimited data, T-Mob’s slashing £20 off the up-front charge and more than £20 a month of the subscription.Just like Voda’s offering, this one touts speedy 1.8Mbps HSDPA and needs nothing more than a spare USB port, which should please Mac users without slots for data cards.T-Mobile can’t quite match Vodafone for HSDPA coverage but with it promising to be available to 85 per cent of the population by the end of the year the gap is narrowing fast.

T-Mobile web’n’walk USB modemPrice: £30 (12 month contract), £Free (18 month contract)On sale: NowContact: T-MobileRelated stories:Macs get Super 3G-iggy with it

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home