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I had recently got MTS 3GPLUS dongle. It is made ZTE and really good news about it is that it supports Linux and it is mentioned in their website (you can view the supported os list in "tech spec"). I have tried it in Windows 8, OSX Mavericks and Ubuntu 13.04 and it works really well on all these platforms.

In mac and windows, it will auto configure everything for you. But in Linux, you need to install it manually. When I plugged it into my ubuntu, it was detected as USB drive but there was no auto configure for it. Even I was not able to load the installation files in Ubuntu. Then I have to plug it into another Windows and was able to see it includes the files for installing it in Linux too.

Mountain Lion has built in support for read-writable NTFS filesystem. But it is enabled as read only by Apple. This means that you can only read from an NTFS formated hard disk but cannot write data to it.

To make it is as read-writable is very easy. There is no need to install any third party half working solutions or expensive softwares. Follow below steps :