More telling is that revenues rose by 48% year-on-year.Sales of smartphones (of all brands) in China are soaring: they rose by 288% in April, year-on-year, and for the first time outpaced the sales of dumbphones.
France Telecom's chief financial officer, Gervais Pellissier, said on Wednesday that sales of broadband Internet in France had for the first time outpaced the fall in traditional telephone-call revenues.
But, over time, inflation outpaced the payments.
ABC finished in third place for the night, with 9.4 million at 10 for "Castle," which trailed CBS's "CSI: Miami" (13.2 million) in its time slot but outpaced "The Jay Leno Show" on NBC (4.6 million).
The Massachusetts constitution, only fifty years old, had already been outpaced by the times.
The publisher said it marked the first time online advertising revenues had outpaced the decline in print income.
"For the first time in memory, the city has outpaced the nation in job growth for the past two years," Mr. Harding said.
But today, perhaps for the first time in history, our scientists' predictions have outpaced the creative powers of our novelists.
Jennings' American prime-time audience, an estimated 18.6 million viewers, easily outpaced the millennium coverage of rival networks.
2002 marked the first time that the rate of hospital spending in the United States outpaced the overall health care spending rate of growth since 1991.
