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welcome to another video from explaining computers comm this time I'm going to talk about mobile broadband this provides a high speed connection to the internet from almost anywhere and is becoming increasingly popular many people already use Wi-Fi to wirelessly access the internet on a laptop computer however this only works when you're in range of a wireless router with a wired broadband connection in contrast mobile broadband provides a direct wireless link between your computer and an Internet service provider usually using their sweetie mobile phone network to use mobile broadband you need to have a contract or pay-as-you-go account with a mobile broadband provider this will include a SIM card with its own mobile phone number and a broadband modem usually in the form of a USB stick or dongle your dongle will have a slot for your SIM card and can be thought of as a data only mobile