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The article presents statistics related to trends that have altered the telecom industry in the U.S. For the first quarter of 2008, AT&T reported a 21.5 percent increase in profits, despite the slowness in the economy. The broadband adds of Verizon are also down by 35 percent in fourth quarter of 2007. It is reported that more than 8.2 million people have downloaded the most actively traded BitTorrent Inc. files.