Two days ago, we highlighted T-Mobile UK’s asinine attempt to redefine what “web browsing” is while simultaneously punishing their users for arguably normal data usage by cutting their 3 GB data plans to a paltry 500 MB. Apparently enough people have voiced disapproval because T-Mobile has stepped back, but only slightly. Instead of a blanket data slashing across the board, current users can continue on with their 3 GB of happiness. New and upgrading...

If you think your carrier of choice has issues now with bandwidth and congestion, the outlook for the near future isn’t going to sit well with you. A report from tech and service provider, Ericsson, highlights that 2011 will see mobile broadband usage surpass 1 billion users in total. By 2015, that number of users will higher, faster. In total, 3.8 billion + people will be using mobile broadband services and devices. The surge in growth will reportedly come mainly...

In news that should make the technologically proficient being in all of us weep, the latest news from the FCC regarding home broadband speeds is quite disheartening. It appears that our national broadband infrastructure isn’t as robust as we think it is. Specifically, out of the 90,963,000 U.S. broadband connections tracked by the FCC, a full 68% fail to meet the revised 4Mbps down/1Mbps up requirements recently put into effect. Breaking it down further, of those...

Verizon’s LTE is launching today, with it bringing dramatically improved mobile broadband speeds to the masses (as long as your a mass that lives within the 38 select launch cities). We here at Gadgetsteria would be all over LTE today — if only there was Mac support. So we have to ask: Are you heading out to your local Verizon store today to jump on board the LTE...

Here in the US, we like to think we’re ahead of the ball on many fronts, with one of those being mobile technology. I mean, the iPhone started here, and as much as some may dislike, is one of the most technologically advanced phones on the market. (Sales numbers don’t lie.) And yet we deal with mobile broadband speeds that are a joke. No, really. Don’t kid yourselves. We suck when it comes to mobile. Unfortunately, I don’t have some amazing...