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...

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 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,

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...

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.

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

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...

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 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...

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

Nortel has been saddled with accounting issues for years. Last year we thought it was done and the company was going to start recovery. This news bothers everyone — investors, customers and workers. Getting back...

There are too many VOIP users who have cut their traditional phone service or turning off VOIP service to be a valid solution.

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,

Parents will love this feature. Kids will find it a mixed bag. They like the protection it provides just in case they get in trouble and need help, but some kids may not like their...

Nextel is going to need a couple of buffers, and the lack of interoperability is one, … If they didn’t have these buffers, they’d be in serious trouble.

Customers love what competition does for their phone bills, but it often comes at the cost of workers. Real people lose real jobs to keep the companies cost-competitive. … We can’t have it all competition,...

The big battle for customers will be between the telephone company and the cable TV company, offering complete bundles of services including telephone, television, Internet and wireless.

AT&T actually exited the cell phone business in its early days and had to buy its way back into wireless later. If it hadn’t been broken apart, you’d never have gotten the creative juices of...

Is SBC buying at the right price? That’s the key. It could cost less to do a deal in a year.

It’s going to strengthen AT&T. They’ll have a single brand from coast to coast and it will prepare them to compete against the cable companies.

As an industry, how do we handle this? Is it fair to have a company have a competitive advantage based on going into bankruptcy? This could force the whole industry to restructure.

But better would be to find another solution and within the 30 days. While we do need to address the E911 issues, and while users need to understand the problems, cutting off their phone service...

For a long time, convergence and all-in-one services were ideas that many people believed in even though they couldn’t see it in the marketplace. Now we see a lot of carriers coming to the same...

The television industry is reinventing itself, the same way the telephone industry is reinventing itself and they are all blending,