Mobile operator T-Mobile has reported that sales of data devices to access Mobile Broadband rose 71.4% year-on-year, although the non-voice element of ARPU rose just 3% year-on-year to 25%; this highlights the problems operators have with selling cheap Mobile Broadband deals. Revenue from Mobile Broadband needs to be a lot higher to support future capacity and service expansion.

Elsewhere Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom today signed the final agreement to combine their UK operations , T-Mobile and Orange , into a 50:50 joint venture company. Completion is conditional upon approval by the relevant authorities and remains expected in the first half of 2010.