The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has just published Mobile Access 2010; a report that looks at wireless internet use in the USA.

It says as of May 2010, 59% of all adult Americans use their laptops or mobile phones to go online wirelessly – either via WiFi or a mobile broadband card.

The percentage of people using their phones to browse the mobile web is up from 25% last year to 38% this year. 34% have used their mobiles for email – also up from 25% last year – with gaming, instant messaging and texting all showing increases as well.

Research carried out for mobile data company Acision has revealed that most UK consumers have experienced Quality of Service issues. 84% of respondents – people who either use mobile broadband on a portable computer or via their phone – said they'd had problems. Slow speeds had affected 67% of consumers, while 49% had suffered from poor network coverage. In addition, 45% hadn't been able to connect and 40% had lost connection at some point.

A press ad for Orange mobile broadband has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. The 'top dongle' ad said "The Orange 3G network covers more people in the UK than any other operator"; a statement that the Three network disagreed with. Hutchison 3G UK argued that they had the largest 3G network in the UK, based on population coverage.

With a message of “We thought rationing ended in the 50s”, BT has weighed into the unlimited mobile data debate. It's started offering BT Total Broadband users unlimited access to 1½ million BT FON and BT Openzone WiFi hotspots across the UK. A downloadable mobile application to find these hotspots is also planned.

The company points out that many of its customers are also O2 mobile users "who are about to have their 3G access rationed as they upgrade to new devices".