Telecom is not the same industry it was, and it is still changing. I don’t believe the average customer or investor really understands all the changes that are occurring in telecom.

This ad campaign is AT&T’s chance to explain what the industry is going to look like going forward and what its role will be. By taking the AT&T name, the company got a chance to...

It’s not like we’re going to have fewer competitors. We’re going to have more competitors. It’s just that the makeup is different.

The [telecom] industry doesn’t need another scandal, … We’ll just have to wait and see what’s uncovered.

We’re not over it yet.

This deal makes sense for Level 3. It helps Level 3 get further into the local competitive market as a competitive local exchange carrier. It is not the first and will not likely be the...

The world has changed. It’s like ‘The Time Machine.’ They fell asleep and woke up and the world moved past them.

That?s the direction that we?re heading in. People are going to continue to drop traditional phone service.

It’s going to be confusing. This is the reinvention of the telecommunications industry.

We’ve seen the telecommunications industry change dramatically in the last 20 years. And we’ll see it change again in the next 10 years. And eventually, the end result should be better services and lower costs...

I think branding is going to be key and this ESPN offering has a built-in customer base — all ESPN viewers and readers. So they have that universe of customers to start with. Now they...

This is the year that we are going to see the phone companies and cable operators offering the same bundle of services. As consumers, we’ve always done business with both. But now we will choose...

This is a progression of the wireless industry. It’s getting faster and better for the user all of the time. We’re in the process of watching the wireless industry move from a phone-only industry to...

The long-term winners will be the big companies we all know by name now. In the shorter term, the smaller firms are doing a good job of building customer bases and rolling up the technology...

This problem has been festering for way too long. It has upset customers and hurt Blackberry, but at least it is over. Worried Blackberry customers can relax; their service won’t be cut off?everyone can breath...

Are the phone companies going to be able to last just by stringing a line into the home? I’m not so sure. It’s in everyone’s best interest for the phone companies to stay in business,...

I’m looking for a light touch. You don’t want to throw ice water on it.

Nortel is restructuring, which could have positive and negative implications,

He was the loudest voice back in the 1990s. We all looked at that and thought it was too much but apparently it was the right thing because he won.

This should give Sprint a competitive advantage.

It’s just going to start an avalanche of mergers in this sector. It’s been waiting too long. The carriers are fewer but larger than ever… and it makes sense for them to change and merge.

This is brand-new technology. These are all issues that we have to wrestle with.

Ed wanted to take over BellSouth for a long time. He started with the smallest Baby Bell and merged it into the biggest. He’d always been very obvious about what he’s doing.

Mike Armstrong jumped in when we all thought we knew where the industry was heading. Before he knew it, the changes that he had made were not helping AT&T, and he had to sell his...

There’s an explosion of wireless services that are available and a screaming need for spectrum. This is going to be a big boost for the industry.

If you’re talking about a service that everything rides on ? your television, your telephone, your Internet ? you’re going to want to switch it all, not just part of it.

The big shifts that are occurring in the industry are not having a positive impact on their sales. As the years pass, and as the industry moves toward IP and wireless-based technology, they face more...

The carriers are finding all sorts of new ways to make money.

The Bells are in much stronger shape than their counterparts.

Comcast is a bigger threat. Customers assume Comcast will take business from AT&T.

Right now you’re looking at two lumbering giants doing everything they can just to survive,

On Monday, the floodgates will open and consumers will be bombarded through their mailboxes, their televisions and newspapers, … It will be confusing at first until they realize they can get all of their services...

He’s a Texan, and he’s winning. He does what he has to do to make the deals and grow the company. He doesn’t take no for an answer. And everybody wins. The companies he acquires,...

The Internet is quickly becoming a broadband tool. Most people do not get value in a dial-up world anymore.

The entire wireless industry is very healthy, and growing very rapidly at this point.

The amount of people that use telephones is not falling. How they communicate is changing.

Atlanta Telecom Professionals is an important organization and through the years has continued to raise awareness of the importance of the telecom industry to the city of Atlanta. The addition of and continued support from...

No carrier wants to roll out a service only to have it not live up to customers’ high expectations. Carriers want the fastest route to having a robust and reliable service on the market.

The problem with telecom is not only that it’s going through the same economic issues as the rest of the market, but that it’s also an industry in transition. Five years ago, AT&T’s primary competitors...

Companies are realizing the level of competition is going to be very high in the telecommunications space. Carriers will want to focus their resources as much as possible on the markets where they have the...

If they are successful, I expect to see the idea spread. But it will be harder than 10 years ago to be successful as the (competitive) offerings in the industry are maturing.

They all are in a mad rush to roll out services that the other ones don’t have. It could be a small lead because eventually everyone will have the same services.

AOL has tried many things over the years to solve this problem and none of them have worked. This [plan] sounds good. It’s a branding solution that helps AOL remain important to the customer. AOL...

Local phone service was separate from long distance. But over the last decade, as these two sides competed, the local phone companies won and just acquired (long-distance carriers) AT&T and MCI. Now they are gearing...

This is unprecedented, … that a player of this size could change its position so quickly — going in with crushing debt and coming out debt-free.

The rules of the telecom business are changing,

With this merger, AT&T is going to be the biggest phone company and the biggest wireless company. That means they’re also going to be the biggest competitor to the cable companies.

There will be quite a bit of choice when it comes to watching television and unlike yesterday where customers chose one company to order television from, tomorrow they may choose multiple providers based on the...

The bargains are going to come when you put [services] all under one roof.

It sounds pretty cool,