Following on from last week's piece where we rounded up the best deals to get free laptops with a mobile phone contract, we thought we'd look at the free laptop deals you can get when signing up to a mobile broadband contract

Here are the very best deals we've seen - that garner you either a free netbook or laptop. All of these deals are on 24-month contracts unless otherwise specified. Each of the deals also comes with a monthly usage allowance, usually 3GB or 5GB of data per month. That means these contracts are great for browsing and email, but not so good for watching iPlayer or downloading anything sizeable.

PC World has a wide choice of free laptops available on mobile broadband deals from Vodafone and 3 ranging from £30-£40 per month. The Vodafone contracts include either 3GB or 5GB of usage allowance, while the 3 deals include a whopping 15GB.

Pick of the offers includes £30 a month for a Dell 15.6-inch, Intel Celeron 3GB laptop with 3GB of usage allowance on Vodafone. For £40 a month this ups to 5GB of data allowance, while you can choose from 15.6-inch Dell, Packard Bell or HP laptops. A 17.3-inch Compaq is also available with the 3 deal.

PC World's sister site The Link also adds in T-Mobile deals, too.

Carphone Warehouse also has several free laptop-with-broadband offers on offer at the moment including a Dell Mini 10 for £20 a month on Vodafone. Only 1GB of data is included, though.

What about the networks?

From the networks themselves, Vodafone is offering a Free Samsung NC10 Netbook plus a 1GB mobile broadband deal for £25 a month. This includes access to Vodafone's 7.2Mbps mobile broadband network.

T-Mobile is offering various offers on its 4.5Mbps mobile broadband network, including an 8.9-inch Asus Eee PC on a 3GB, £20 a month deal. You can up this deal to 5GB of usage allowance to a 1GB 15.4-inch HP 6735s at £30 a month or a 3GB version of the same laptop for £35 a month.

3's 3.5Mbps network offers a £22.50 a month deal with a free Acer Aspire One 150b. However, you do get that whopping 15GB a month usage allowance.

Orange has a free Asus Eee 1000H on offer, which you can get with 3GB of data allowance for £30. 1GB and 5GB packages are available, as well as slightly more expensive contracts that only tie you to 18-month contracts rather than 24. This is on the 3.6Mbps Orange network.

O2 has several Samsung netbooks and laptops available. The pick of which is the 10.2-inch Samsung NC10, available for £30 with 3GB of allowance. You can up this to 10GB for £40. Variants of the Samsung R510 are also available.

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