Sprint has replaced AT&T as the wireless provider to the City of Houston. Sprint’s win marks the first time a carrier other than AT&T has provided wireless service to the city in over 20 years. Sprint will supply cellphones, push-to-talk devices, emergency communications and data services for most city departments.

The contract, estimated at $15 million over five years, calls for approximately 10,000 activations of wireless services and more than 6,000 devices. The city’s inventory of Sprint phones will include PDAs and smartphones featuring the HTC EVO™ 4G, Motorola PHOTON™ 4G, a variety of BlackBerry® smartphones and nearly 5,000 feature phones.

The city’s contract with Sprint also includes 500 tablets, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab™ and HTC EVO View 4G™. The tablets benefit a city government that is committed to reducing paper costs, making progress toward eco-friendly sustainability goals and working on behalf of taxpayers to achieve more with fewer resources. Houston will also use Sprint Mobile Broadband 3G and 4G connection cards to enable large data files to flow quickly between 27 of the city’s departments.