O2 has cut the cost of its 3G mobile broadband with a free laptop by 50% for all 24 month contracts. The monthly cost for this was £50 per month but has now been cut to £25.

Buyers can pick from a Asus 1005H laptop with an Intel Atom 1.6 Gigahertz processor, 1GB of memory, 160 GB hard drive and a 10 inch widescreen display or a Samsung R519 with an Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor ( 2.16GHz ), 2GB of memory, 250 GB hard drive and a 15.6 inch widescreen display.

Both packages come with a three gigabyte data allocation and O2’s 3G mobile broadband offers speeds up to 3.6. Mega bytes per second ( Mbps ). A data allowance of 10GB is also available for an extra ten pounds per month.