T&A: Consulting firm Ovum has released a report forecasting that users accessing the Web via mobile broadband-enabled notebooks and handsets will grow at a rate much faster than the growth in revenues (measured in terms of average revenue per user, or ARPU) by 2014.

While mobile broadband revenues are expected to grow by more than 450% from 2008 to an estimated rev of US$137 billion in 2014, users will surge from 181 million today to over two billion by the same period — a 1024% increase. It is estimated that among the two billion, 258 million users worldwide will be accessing mobile broadband services through notebooks via the popular USB-based modems, datacards and integrated mobile modules. (more…)