Despite that you can't type on a keyboard properly when your hands are smeared with suntan lotion and you can't really see the screen too well when the sun is high in the sky, Brits abroad want nothing better than to get onto Facebook, presumably to tell their mates they're on holiday. Well that's according to a new T-Mobile survey.

The study, carried out by polling experts YouGov, found that one-in-five of us want to work on the beach (we want to work on the beach - work on our tan that is!). A previous survey found that only three percent wanted this dubious "luxury".

Another 44 percent think that its a good idea to surf t'internet in the garden (please see above remarks on sunshine and laptop screens). Twenty percent want Facebook on the beach (admittedly we have reviewed the Blackberry and sent pictures of us on the Norfolk Broads - we are sad).

Eight percent wanted the internet at the pub (which is handy in a pub quiz - especially when the quizmaster thinks that the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney's Robin Hood is a snake and you can point out that was Sir Hiss!)

The mobile operator said that mobile broadband is experiencing a massive uptake and is set to overtake fixed-line broadban in the next couple of years.

"Mobile broadband has reached a tipping point and is now hitting the mainstream", says Richard Warmsley, head of internet and entertainment services at T-Mobile. "Consumers are used to taking their laptops out and about with them and they expect to be connected - whether that's in the garden, at the office or in the park."