Famous Quotes & Sayings

What you are seeing is a shift away from e-commerce and back to the plumbing of the Internet. The telecom sector and software are doing quite well as are DSL, broadband and fiber optics. Most of them are retooling to enter the fiber optic age.

Jonathan Adelstein

I think universal service has to evolve into broadband sooner rather than later,

Orb continues to help consumers get the most out of their digital and broadband investments.

In terms of market dynamics, just look at the broadband trend and the growth in the wide range of devices. I wouldn't say we're going into an era where PCs are irrelevant, and I certainly wouldn't say that to PC Magazine, but I think we're going into an era where the PC is just one of a number of important devices.

Paul Jackson

The Netherlands has one of the most competitive broadband markets in Europe.

Steve Howe

It's simple: this partnership allows consumers to fire their phone company and sign up for the high-quality, low-cost voice and broadband solution that they deserve.

The launch of ITV Local is part of the emerging broadband strategy within ITV.

O. J. Simpson

The listing underlines our commitment to our employees, and customers in the U.S., where we have more than 40 percent of our business today, ... It will mark the next step in the development of Marconi as a leading global broadband communications equipment supplier.

David Silverman

The media landscape has clearly changed with more and more marketers realizing that there is much to be gained from online advertising. With the increase in broadband penetration further enhancing how messages get delivered, we should continue to see a favorable environment for increased Internet ad spend.

As we enter fiscal 2000, rapid growth of emerging new businesses such as handheld computers and broadband access, coupled with success of our systems solutions, are transforming the growth profile of the company.

This continuing increase in broadband use is an essential step in a maturing Internet industry, ... Compared with their narrowband counterparts, broadband users spend more time and money online because their surfing experience is faster, more persistent, and ultimately, more satisfying. This is good news for consumers, publishers and advertisers alike.

For a lot of people now, especially those with broadband connections, the first place they go to for information is online. But people are still warming up to the idea that lots of information about them is online.

It's the equivalent of a Disney Channel of broadband interactive content. It's become a good business for Disney. Our goal is to be as ubiquitous as the Disney Channel.

Larry Kramer

This is the second phase of our plan to re-launch all of our websites as broadband channels.

There's been a big shift in economics. The market's gotten very competitive, and broadband pricing has come down.

Vint Cerf

Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.

We're still in Phase 1 of broadband video, and we're not likely to see any near-term impact on cable or satellite.

Meg Whitman

Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing user region with markets like India, China and Korea leading the pack as Internet and broadband penetration rise.

As a mobile telephone-only company, Vodafone faces an inherent weakness as telephone calls in developed countries move onto the Internet. All telecom companies will face falling revenues as calls move online, but at least those offering fixed lines and broadband Internet will get a cut of the remaining revenues.

The broadband market will be shared by a range of technologies, power line will be the second largest in number of users.

The broadband difference is now permeating the news environment. High-powered Internet users are heavily into other media sources as well, but the pre-eminent place of online news suggests that it shapes their off-line information choices in an important way.

Jerry Yang

Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

The solutions being demonstrated run the gamut from those that serve operators, enterprises and ultimately consumers to new technologies that are changing our lives through broadband wireless connections.

The strong impetus to moving to broadband is better pricing. The functionality itself isn't selling the connections.

The switchover rate (from narrowband to broadband customers) will be key.

After a year or two, the number of business jets (with broadband Internet) will far outstrip the number of commercial airlines.

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

Now, in order to make money, you have to come out with a new enhancement, and that's broadband data. They have to move to the next sweet spot.

Chris Williams

The risk is that by getting a cheap deal on broadband you'll be paying over the odds for your phone service, but most bundled packages are pretty competitive on both. You might get a slightly cheaper deal by finding the cheapest phone and internet providers separately, but many people are happy to pay slightly more for the convenience of a single package.

This is pushing the UK to the front of Europe in broadband take up.

You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection.

Charles Dunstone

First we launched free calls for our customers, today we're launching free broadband forever. Our focus will now be on processing all orders as quickly as possible. Demand is going to be enormous.

Boosting broadband availability would be helpful for the industry. Right now, however, there's no firm method to turn that into action.