Anyone interested in accessing mobile Internet totally free of cost can do so by simply buying a SIM card and spending a few minutes. An MVNO that has been recently releases on the Three network, called Samba is providing ad-backed accessibility, which states that it would come to about 517 Mb of information per month if the user would be willing to view two and a half minutes of advertisements a day. The company is providing SIM cards as well as micro-SIM cards, each for a mere 4.99 pounds and shipping charges of 7.82 pounds for shipping. The firm stated that USB dongles would also be provided some time in the near future.
According to a report form the BBC, if a user needs to watch the two and a half minute ads, he/she would need a browser plug-in or an iPad application, as for the time being no other tablets are compatible with the Samba. In addition as a majority of the advertisements are to an extent interactive, the user would in fact really have to watch the ads. This therefore would imply that there would be no end to the credits a user can collect, however the people providing the ad can limit the number of times each ad can be viewed. One other prospective bee in the bonnet here would be that for many people this facility cannot be utilized to access pornographic sites or other distasteful content. It may, nevertheless become an effective option in an contingency for a user who does not have access to the new Olympic Wi-Fi roll-out in London.
