In most other businesses and sectors of society, advertising one thing and then providing another, lesser quality thing is grounds for lawsuit, imprisonment, etc. But if you’re a cellular carrier or smartphone manufacturer, such trivial things apparently don’t matter. How else would you categorize the Motorola Atrix having disabled (read: capped) HSUPA? The end results is a “4G” phone that tops out at 400Kbps upload speeds, leaving many “3G” devices (such as...

I’m pretty sure that most of you would agree with me that telemarketers have the worst job in all of the human races’ existence. There’s no saving grace, no perks, and no enjoyment because everyone hates you. In fact, people hate telemarketers so much they go out of their way to add their phone numbers to these miles long lists designed to prevent telemarketers from invading their lives. And for Canadian cellular carrier, Bell, they had to learn the hard...

Bell Mobility customers will soon have a new reason to speed — down the interwebs that is. Starting November 23rd, interested users will be able to pick up the Novatel Wireless U547 which will not only support the carriers super speedy 21Mbps speeds, but the even faster 42Mbps network as well. The small caveat is that Bell Mobility will be charging 42Mbps users an extra $10/month to enjoy the extra speed. Though thankfully, it isn’t mandatory that you pay the...

What’s on the top of your “cellular carrier wishlist”? For some, faster speeds. Others — coverage. If I mentioned cross-carrier video calling, how would you shuffle around your list to include it? For many subjects, the whole video calling thing would probably sit pretty low. For the lucky Canadians up north however, video calling appears to be a pretty big sought after feature — at least to the telcos anyway. With join collaboration...

For whatever reason, Nokia phones have failed to really catch on here in the states. I know we’ve all seen those junk freebie Nokia’s that just about every carrier has, using them to inflate their bottom line. But the real meat is that of smartphones. Here in the states and even North America as a whole, Nokia smartphones are often left for those with deeper pockets than most thanks to a lack of carrier subsidizing. $5-$600 phones are simply too much for...