Vodaphone Cuts Internet Access Fees In Half

Vodafone has upped the ante in the burgeoning mobile broadband market by slashing the price it charges to connect to the high-speed internet from a laptop by half.

Over the past year, European mobile phone companies have competed fiercely for high-spending business users who use mobile phone networks to connect wirelessly to the internet. The deployment of the technology HSDPA across mobile phone networks has tripled the capacity for delivering broadband speeds akin to fixed-line services and has enabled companies such as Vodafone and T-Mobile to chase high-spending business users.

Vodafone has kicked off the latest round of price-cutting in the business space by introducing a flat-rate mobile broadband tariff of £25 a month, almost half the £45 it charged before. It has also amended its "fair usage" policy so users can download three times the amount of data that they could under previous contracts.

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