Thursday, March 19, 2009

Mobile broadband a source of good news

In a shrinking economy, mobile broadband services are going gangbusters
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Mobile broadband a source of good news

Jeff Caruso By Jeff Caruso
One area of networking that isn't being hampered by the global recession is mobile broadband, according to a report released this week by Infonetics Research. Read full story

Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World.

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