The mobile industry continues to speed along with smarter phones, faster networks and easier to use on-the-go applications delivering everything from top headlines and GPS-based restaurant recommendations to this week's weather forecast.

Eighty-six percent of the U.S. population owns at least one mobile phone, and more than half of mobile users use SMS as their primary communication channel. This is great news for an industry whose customers, by definition, are away from their homes and offices and rely on their mobile phones more than ever.

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