Businesses have been the driving force behind soaring sales of broadband 'dongles', it has been revealed.
With the cost of the device, which allows users to access the internet anywhere there is mobile phone coverage, having halved over the past 12 months alone, UK telecommunications provider 3 has announced it has now sold more than one million of the gadgets.
According to figures cited by the Times, 13 per cent of people across the whole of the European Union now access mobile broadband through the use of dongles or data cards, with growing numbers of businesses equipping their employees with the technology in order to allow them to work on the go.
Commenting on the significance of the findings, Ben Wood, of CCS Insight, the telecoms research group, told the paper. "As these mobile packages and speeds get good enough people will be starting to say 'hang on a minute, why do I need a landline again?'"
This comes as business users in the UK look set to benefit from broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps as Virgin gets ready to roll out superfast connections.
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