Parks Associates’ new consumer study ‘Mobile Convergence: Platforms, Applications, and Services’ indicates that U.S. consumers are increasingly adopting mobile Internet and email services. More than 40 percent of the 70 million U.S. broadband households with a mobile phone service – 28 million households – have adopted non-text mobile data services.

Interestingly, over a quarter of mobile service users have adopted mobile Internet and email services, far outweighing their adoption of other mobile data applications such as mobile TV and music. Meanwhile, mobile social networking and navigation services have each penetrated more than 10 percent of mobile users.

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