Now I hear that Wi-Fi offloading is finally catching on with U.S. service providers, some of whom will announce deployments as early as this week.

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"It's something that I take, and am very honored to hear stuff like that, but it doesn't mean anything right now, " Stepan said, referring to Tortorella's praise.

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