Famous Quotes & Sayings

The transformation of the business continues to deliver value to our customers and shareholders. Broadband growth continues to be very strong with the number of BT Wholesale connections now standing at more than seven million.

I'm sure one of the clauses in AOL's deal with broadband partners was a fairly hefty commitment as far as how many customers would make the switch. Two dollars removes any sort of price-related inertia that their dial-up customers might feel.

Increasingly, city officials view broadband in the 21st century the same way they viewed electricity 100 years ago and telephone service 50 years ago. It's falling into the category of a necessary and essential social service.

If there's forced neutrality, 100% of building out services provided by cable and telecom companies fall to the consumer. It's going to price true broadband out of the reach of consumers, and therefore there won't be an investment case of building it in the first place.

Peter Cochrane

If there's a shortage of broadband in the area, why not extend that broadband from the school to the homes?

It's got the magic going for them. It makes products for fiber optic, broadband cable and wireless.

David Price

It's really grown enormously over the last 12 months. It's partly because broadband has become more broadly available.

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.

It's more of the same, and the same is an ever-tightening oligopoly at the heart of the cable TV broadband Internet industry.

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.

Julius Genachowski

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

James Murdoch

In 2006, we will be offering a single, high-speed internet connection that allows customers to make free telephone calls to other broadband members, as well as normal phone calls. Soon thereafter, we will have a whole home solution. It will be entertainment without compromise.

Clearly we think it's premature to talk about separating portions of the broadband bill. The chairman is committed to working on comprehensive broadband regulatory reform.

City workers and visitors will be able to use wireless broadband to work more efficiently, staying in touch with their office via hand-held devices while on the move.

By combining broadband Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, we are taking a major step towards implementing future integrated data, voice and video telecommunications on a mass market scale.

High-speed or broadband networks are now common. Server operating systems are highly scalable and ready to support thousands or tens of thousands of clients.

The migration to broadband is happening more slowly for dial-up users in 2005 than 2002. With fewer new internet users coming online these days, the stock of potential broadband subscribers is not being replenished.

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.

The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

Michael K. Powell

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

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

Broadband was one of the few remaining opportunities for competition in telephone service. Now that door has been closed. If Justice now approves this merger, it slams yet another door.

Broadband is simply the infrastructure for network applications. It is the services and applications that are important, rather than the size of the pipe,

Broadband is at the centre of our strategy and at the centre of our future.

Broadband is as important to Yahoo! as it is to the consumers. If the consumer demands that type of content, companies like Yahoo! will follow in developing it.

Broadband growth continues to be very strong with the number of BT Wholesale connections now standing at more than seven million. This is pushing the UK to the front of Europe in broadband take-up.

Broadband deployment will be integral to economic performance.

Broadband created a tipping point. Broadband is a fait accompli. There are just too many people using it to ignore, and these media companies are realizing that a PC is just another screen.

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.

This also will facilitate new investment in broadband networks

With IPTV dramatically changing the entertainment market and helping to spur demand for broadband, IPTV products will be one of the hottest items on the Telecom NEXT exhibit floor. The Broadband Services Forum is a terrific group to give Telecom NEXT attendees the critical information that will help network service providers with their network purchasing decisions.

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

They have some very big challenges in the mobile business in Germany and the UK and also in broadband in Germany.