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.

Investing is a game with an eye on the future. People lost track of that in telecom during the last several years when the finish line might have been tomorrow or next week, … This...

Wow. That’s a better start than anyone thought.

The directories business is not going away. But everything telecom related is in a state of flux.

Both the telephone companies and the cable industry are gearing up to go to battle with each other.

Prices will drop and innovation will explode as the two sides try for all your business.

It’s a story about increasing features. It’s a sign of the transformation of the industry. It used to be about wireless phone calls, but we’re buying based on all the other features.

People who want traditional phone service will pay what they are paying now.

We have to come up with a solution that addresses both problems. I don’t have an answer, but we see the two sides coming at this from their own corners, and we don’t see any...

This is a normal increase for Comcast. But we’re getting to the end of the line in terms of what customers are willing to accept in terms of these increases.

I believe the customers will love it and it will drive the competitors to offer similar combinations.

Some of the carriers will not be able to develop their own services, especially when it comes to delivering video content. Partnerships will be important for those who want to have a full bundle to...

The television services that we will be using in coming years will look much different than the service we used over the last 30 years. Phone companies like AT&T are rushing to offer a competitive...

Of all the names in telecom, only one has the history of AT&T. AT&T was the name of the phone company since we were kids, and in fact since our parents and our grandparents were...

Most people don’t realize that they are going to be able to choose between their cable company and their phone company for everything.

This is the direction the industry is heading, … This allows BellSouth to remain firmly in the game.

This means there is plenty of room in the marketplace for the phone companies to offer television.

Competitors who have been salivating over the potential opportunity of gaining new customers if BlackBerry went down have to be disappointed, but this is a better ending for customers, companies and everyone.

There are just too many separate companies competing. They are all smaller than ever before and the number of customers they market to are also shrinking due to mergers.

There is a river of fiber optic networks, local loops that are going right through the sidewalk. We have seen the construction, we see the wire and cables being buried. The problem is only four...

I have not seen any slowing reported by the major ISPs. Eventually it will slow down because there are only a certain number of users in the country, but I don’t see it happening yet.

They’re struggling. It doesn’t look like they’re going out of business, but the industry is reinventing itself and the company is trying to figure out where it fits in.