Wireless carrier 3UK has announced its plans to turn broadband 'not-spots' into hot-spots by donating mobile broadband equipment and some connectivity to them.

3UK announced that it would equip rural communities, which are struggling to get fixed line services, with 3G mobile broadband. The network provider will offer free 3G dongles along with connectivity for a year.

To begin with, the service will be rolled out in 11 rural communities. People of Gringley-on-the-Hill in North Nottinghamshire will be the first to get the service. They will receive 30 dongles and free data access for one year.

Gringley-on-the-Hill Parish Council Chairman Hugo Dunkley said that the mobile broadband would allow households and businesses to reap the benefits of the internet to its full potential for the first time.

3UK has partnered with Countryside Alliance and Race Online, which is a government-backed group that aims to get more people online, to identify 10 more rural communities that will be provided with similar services.

Corporate affairs director Hugh Davies, at 3UK, said that the initiative showed that the company was committed to government plan to equip isolated areas with decent broadband services.

The British government wants to equip every areas of the country with a basic broadband service of at least 2Mbps by 2015.