...to seek out new life and new civilizations

As you will read, UMTS doesn't work out of the box, you need to struggle a bit.

Moreover, I didn't find a good support for it in Ubuntu forums, very often I had to ask on developers mailing list. If you have a problem, I suggest that you should look for help in this order:

1. Ubuntu forum (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=336)
2. Ubuntu Geek (http://ubuntugeek.com/forum/index.php/board,4.0.html)
3. Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu)
4. Gnome Network Manager mailing list (networkmanager-list at gnome.org)

In the following sections there are some problems I've found and solved during the years.