Just one year ago if one were to venture a guess as to whether fully wireless mobile broadband would overtake home broadband in usage it could easily have been answered, without a doubt. With 3G connection available throughout the nation and prices on dongles for laptops dropped to just 10 pounds one would have fully expected a huge surge in wireless speed investment. But as companies like BT and Virgin Media are implementing the beginning trials of 4G connection by means of fibre optic FTTC connections it would seem the race in this case shall go the tortoise. This race though is far from over and should go to the less encumbered mobile broadband hare but self imposed limitations for the sake of profit squeezing seem to be holding back the potential of mobile. It remains widely accepted that mobile broadband speed is slower than that of home. But is that speed slower due to technology being behind a bit or due to a purposeful attempt to cut consumption. Another factor influencing competition in favor of land based broadband is the amount of download available for the pay as you go price. Download amounts granted with pay as you go mobile broadband as well as contract versions are downright stingy. One can hardly download a 2 GB movie on a plan with a 3GB for the month limit. A contradiction to this is that for pay as you go dongles are exceptionally cheap and many mobile broadband providers even give free laptop deals as incentive to try out wireless. By any logic fully mobile broadband coverage and for that matter all wireless telephony should be more cost effective than tethered devices. Items like the new Apple iPad seem to point all of us in the direction of lightweight yet power portable computing. But without high speed unlimited downloads even the iPad is just a fancy pen and paper.