The Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA), a purchasing consortium composed of 15 states, has awarded Sprint a four-year, $2 billion contract to serve as one of its wireless products and services providers. The contract with WSCA, a national public sector purchasing consortium, represents one of the largest for Sprint in 2012.WSCA participants will be able to take advantage of the full suite of Sprint wireless products and services, including devices, unlimited data plans, accessories, applications and end-to-end solutions.
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SiTime Corporation, which specializes in silicon MEMS timing solutions, announced a major milestone: cumulative shipments of its MEMS oscillators, clock generators and resonators have exceeded 100 million units. 
IBM outlined its strategy for building an extensive portfolio of software and services that delivers enterprise-ready mobility for clients. The company believes this sector represents a $22 billion market, potentially growing to $36 billion in 2012 as companies increasing adopt mobile technologies to improve their productivity. The plan is to extend unified capabilities extend from servers and laptops, to smartphones and tablets.
MetroPCS reported Q1 total revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, an increase of 7% over the first quarter of 2011. Adjusted EBITDA came in at $262 million, a decrease of 8% over the first quarter of 2011.
Sprint reported Q1 wireless service revenues of $7.2 billion, an increase of more than 7 percent year-over-year, driven primarily by Sprint platform postpaid ARPU growth of $4.03. net loss of $863 million and a diluted net loss of $.29 per share for the first quarter of 2012. This compares to a net loss of $439 million and a diluted net loss of $.15 per share in the first quarter of 2011 and includes depreciation of approximately $543 million, or negative $.18 cents per share, primarily due to accelerated depreciation related to the expected shut down of the Nextel platform as well as a one time gain of $170 million from the terminated contract with LightSquared.
Ericsson reported Q1 2012 revenue of SEK 51.0 billion (US$7.59 billion), down 4% YoY, impacted by an expected major decline in CDMA sales as well as lower operator network spending in regions with macro-economic or political uncertainty. Net income was SEK 8.8 billion (US$1.31 billion). Global Services and consolidation of Telcordia contributed positively.
Radisys introduced its T40, an ATCA-based 40G platform designed to scale for carrier applications such as deep packet inspection (DPI), advanced network security and the 4G evolved packet core (EPC). 
Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones during its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. This represents a 88 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, a 151 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. 
Intel formally introduced its 3rd generation Core processors, code named Ivy Bridge, which are based on its 22-nanometer (nm) 3-D tri-Gate transistor technology. The 3-D tri-gate transistor technology and architectural enhancements enable the processor to deliver up to double the 3-D graphics and HD media processing performance compared with Intel’s previous generation of chips.
Service provider deep packet inspection (DPI) product revenue grew 29% to over $470 million worldwide in 2011 and is forecast to grow to $2 billion in 2016, according to a new report from Infonetics. The bulk of this increase is expected to come from mobile networks, where DPI is increasingly being incorporated into larger solutions, such as video optimization and mobile offload.
Vodafone has submitted a bid to acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) for £1.04 billion (US$1.7 million).
