Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from the line of Doug Whitman with Whitman Capital. Your line is open.
Douglas Whitman - Whitman Capital
Congratulations on the strong numbers, guys, and thank you as one of your investors. Could you comment a little bit and without giving specific numbers, but could you talk a little about the economic effect as you look out over the next calendar year, you've had very strong growth in Mobile subscriptions and ratable licenses year-over-year in this most current quarter?
And could you talk little bit about what the economic effect you expect to see there and maybe put it versus the Internet subscription business?
Umang Gupta
Sure. In general, first of all, let me just practice by saying as you know, Doug, we don't provide specific guidance beyond the quarter, so any remarks I'll give you are very broad for the general economic environment as you've asked about rather than specific guidance.
Douglas Whitman - Whitman Capital
Right. And, Umang, I'd say we don't, maybe you do but most of us and we are assuming the economy could be bad, most of us don't know how bad it's going to be, so I am trying to gauge.
Umang Gupta
Right. So, I must tell you that the natural question anybody should ask certainly as a conservative CEO I ask myself, hey, how come we did so good last quarter, when the whole world is sort of falling apart? Was that a fluke? And is it likely to be a fluke? And is the fluke going to show-up somehow in the next quarter or the next quarter or is there something more fundamental that might maybe allow us to believe that we might do a little bit better than what others might do? I don't believe it as a fluke. And I don't mean that in a bragging kind of way. I just don't believe it is fluke.
I think ultimately there are two or three things to note about our business. Number one, our Mobile business is really less affected by what's going on in the economic cycles today, as much as they are by product cycles. Who are our customers as Mobile? The bulk of our customers are major telecoms, and these telecoms many of them are government owned entities, who have plenty of infrastructure money, and maybe even more now to be thrown at them as a result of stimuli from the government.
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