T-Mobile USA Awarded EPA Mobility Contract

Bradenton Herald

T-Mobile USA, Inc. announced that the company has been awarded a three-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under the terms of the agreement, the EPA and its 17,000 employees will have access to a full range of T-Mobile products and services – from the company’s global Wi-Fi calling capabilities and broad selection of government-approved devices to its super-fast HSPA+ mobile broadband network, which now covers nearly 50 metropolitan markets. T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network is the most pervasive to offer 4G speeds in the country1.

The first major carrier to offer Wi-Fi calling, T-Mobile helps enterprises, like the EPA, take advantage of this technology to enhance domestic and international coverage, reduce domestic and international minute usage, increase enterprise mobility cost savings, and improve productivity benefits from open Wi-Fi access points across the globe. The company now hosts approximately 40 million Wi-Fi calls per month.

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U.S. consumers double their mobile data traffic consumption in six months

rcrwireless.com

With so much talk these days about uninhibited mobile data growth and the impact it's having on wireless carrier networks, you'd think there was no money in mobile broadband. Think again.

Revenues from mobile data in the United States jumped 6% in the second quarter from the previous quarter and climbed 22% from the year-ago period, according to fresh data from Chetan Sharma Consulting. In Q2 alone, revenues for mobile data eclipsed $13.2 billion. No wonder the consultancy is confidently holding firm to its initial estimate of $54 billion for the year.

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Report: Mobile infrastructure market to reach $43B by 2014

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal

Mobile infrastructure market annual revenues are forecast to reach $43 billion over the next five years, according to a report Monday from Dell'Oro Group.

Redwood City-based Dell'Oro said that after a double-digit revenue decline in 2009 and a flat forecast in 2010, market revenue growth is expected to accelerate yearly beginning in 2011.

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59% of U.S. adults use mobile for Web

San Jose Business Journal

The number of U.S. adults accessing the Internet via a cellphone or laptop computer has grown to 59 percent, a new report said Wednesday.

The study by the Pew Research Center said that number is up from 51 percent in April 2009.

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