By Manish Singh, VP Product Line Management, CCPU

"The fun has just begun, and there are many hurdles yet to overcome"
Without a doubt, mobile broadband is today's growth engine for the telecom industry. Despite the current global economic slowdown, AT&T witnessed a 37.2 percent increase in wireless data revenue to $3.4B during the second quarter of 2009, adding more than 2.4M iPhone customers. And even though Verizon didn't quite have the iPhone-centric sizzle, their wireless data revenues were still up 52.6 percent in the same quarter. Similarly, Intel reported solid Q2 earnings due in part to strong sales of its Atom chips for netbooks and other mobile computers. The emerging picture is clear: consumers want mobile broadband, and they want it now.

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