There’s a new class of entrepreneur out there that’s finding new ways to use high-speed service that’s draining capacity.

Now customers realize there are a lot of competitors. BlackBerry is not the only cat in the bag anymore.

It sounds pretty cool. But if someone was using it against me, I’d say, ‘How dare they!

People won’t just buy bundles for the sake of convenience. They will favor the brands they trust, but they will also want to know they’re getting the best services available.

Their focus on bundling and broadband seems to be working since they are growing, not losing business, so far. They are losing some customers to the cable TV industry, but the numbers are still strong.

What’s radically impressive about Southwestern Bell’s offering is that their highest rate is just nine cents, while most others get as high as 20 or 30 cents, … They didn’t have to go that low....

It makes sense for companies to merge. They have higher income and lower expenses as the competitive threat grows.

We should see a significant recovery in cable television stock prices in the next few months.

The purpose is really twofold. To update the thinking of investors and customers on the changing company and the changing industry.

The wireless phones will be used to manage more and more of our lives. If we are going to use these phones for all they can offer, we have to be smart about it. Either...

Carriers would much rather differentiate themselves with service and features rather than price. No one wants to fall behind on building that loyal customer base for all the services that are going to come over...

It’s the next natural wave of industry consolidation.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with their business. It is not fading away. When the economy picks up, the Bells will pick up.

Even though competition is arguably decreasing, the larger companies have more network assets they can put to use for their customers. The costs will always be higher for overseas calling, but in the long run,...

Telecommunications as an industry in the United States is going through massive changes. We are in the middle of a major to 30-year transformation. When we come out the other side, we’ll have the choice...

The big cable and phone companies are now offering this service and they have considerable market power to work with.

You’re going to have many more services to buy, so I think we’re going to end up buying more of them.

For a long time we watched the long-distance companies take it on the chin but the Baby Bells held their own. All of a sudden we’re seeing the Baby Bells touched by the same pressures.

What’s happening there in New York is an early curve of what’s going to be happening around the country in the next few years. This is a new wave of competition. Basically the telephone and...

would like access to a whole new revenue stream but it opens up a whole number of issues … it’s a touchy subject.

You can watch TV on your cable, you can watch TV on your telephone, you can watch TV on the computer. This is a transformation that is changing the industry.

This just seems like a normal part of business. There’s no competitive issues here. It has to do with the age.

The weakest link for SBC is offering international service to business customers. This deal should make SBC stronger,

What we’re facing right now is the beginnings of a brand new marketplace.

Telecom is in the process of change so we have to look beyond traditional ways to measure it and try to understand what it will look like. The changes Sprint Nextel are making look very...

Sprint has been moving more into the wholesale side of the wireless market and the agreements mean at t the very least, more traffic will flow over its network.

The bottom line is this redesign makes sense, but we will not know if it works for a while,

The technology is getting better, but we haven’t seen a truly meaningful product yet.

It was not unexpected, but the timing was a lot sooner than anyone thought.

With the merger, AT&T is preparing to compete on a new level against cable companies. The battle is beginning.

But we have to remember redesigning a company is like changing the set at a play while the play is still on. It can be filled with quite a bit of confusion.

We thought we might have been seeing the beginnings of some good news. As it turns out that may have been a little bit premature.

In recent years the show has outlined the coming competition with the Bells. This year is the year the competition begins.

People still think about telecom in separate sectors. The walls are coming down. The companies are bigger and they are offering all of these services. It’s an idea that’s been building over the last decade,...

Wireless is too dependent on the external power supply. And since wireless phones are becoming the main phone line for many people, the industry has to make sure that customers have the same kind of...

It’s the same effect but there are different rules, … But that’s the problem with technology.

[VOIP] is a disruptive technology, … But is it threatening the Bells? No. It’s challenging the old models, not threatening the companies.

Cable companies have decided to wait until there’s a threat, but when there’s a threat, they’re going to act. For them to not raise rates is historical.

Hopefully WorldCom will not use its debt-free status to start a price war.

We started out with seven ‘baby Bells’ and AT and T back in 1984 with the divestiture. Prior to that there was basically one company, AT and T. Today there are many companies offering telephone,...

In the last few years we’ve seen an explosion in cell phone technology. You can now swipe your credit card through a vending machine and have a cell phone pop out of the slot.

We have become a mobile phone culture in a very short period of time. I don’t expect to see many people to give them up now or even reduce their use — the trends are...

The networks and the people [in South Florida] are going to be the same as they are now.

The market for mobile search is small now, but that makes it the right time for those with designs on being major players in the future to get a foothold in the market.

AT&T is reinventing itself as a voice over IP player,

Customers love and hate their cable television service. They love all the channels, but they hate the high prices they have to pay. Families wonder why they have to pay more for channels they never...

Telecommunications companies always worry about cannibalizing their own revenue streams with lower priced alternatives. Consumers will decide on more than just price, however.

The phone business is a small part of what phones do now. Telecom is moving away from the telephone to consumer electronics.

If the FCC takes a hands-off approach, it’ll be like flipping a switch, and the lights will all come on for every Internet executive. Any company that has a huge Internet customer base, it’s a...

They have basically said they are staying out of the porn business. They have no control of what their clients do, but when they hear about it they try to shut it down.