LOCOG, the London Organising Committee Of The Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, is the latest high-profile company to secure its mobile email with Good Technology.

It’s using Good for Enterprise to secure thousands of personal and sponsor-provided mobile devices over the next few weeks.

Portio Research, which specialises in analysing the mobile and wireless industries, has forecast there’ll be 6.5 billion mobile subscribers worldwide by the end of 2012.

By the end of 2016 it expects the total to have reached almost 8.5 billion, which represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 7.3% between the end of 2011 and 2016.

There are plenty of quarterly results to report in this week's edition of The Fonecast, including Samsung, Apple, Telefonica and Facebook. In addition, we have new research that shows how smartphone sales are racing ahead as feature phone sales slow down.

There's also news about mobile coverage in the Channel Tunnel, mobile application downloads and m-commerce.

Mark Bridge writes:

If I’m paying for internet access - whether the arrangement is with a broadband service provider for my home or a mobile network operator on my smartphone - I want to be able to use that access however I want. That’s pretty much what net neutrality is all about.

But the debate isn’t necessarily as straightforward as it sounds. To learn more, I spoke to Doug Suriano, Chief Technology Officer at mobile broadband solutions company Tekelec.

A new report by ABI Research expects the m-commerce market to account for 24.4% of overall e-commerce revenue by the end of 2017.

It follows a period of particularly strong growth last year, when the amount of online mobile transactions doubled to $65.6 billion worldwide.