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Tim Griffin

Record-high fuel costs, industry overcapacity, and the growth of low-cost carriers and the fares they are able to offer are negatively impacting the financial performance of many of the flights we currently operate,

It highlights the problems that all of the legacy carriers are facing now with this spike in energy costs.

Tom Price

If people didn't understand the plight that legacy carriers were in, they will now,

The last thing carriers want to see is something that can increase churn when they're desperately trying to drive it down.

Their challenge is radio technology. When Ensemble went out of business, their equipment supply dried up. Having most of the European vendors supplying A-band equipment to carriers overseas has proven to be a real value in helping to make our situation what it is today.

The fewer carriers you have, the less opportunity you have for the marketplace to function properly.

The consumer long-distance sector is viewed as an albatross for all of the long distance carriers these days. AT&T is not the only one considering such an action.

The carriers we're using for our private corporate network are the same ones doing the Internet. It's the same infrastructure. There is no distinction between the Internet and the carrier services we're talking about.

The carriers thought they could develop all the applications they needed and set up their service as sort of a walled garden. What's happened is that hasn't been effective enough and carriers are realizing that they have to go out there and get application developers to come in, handset developers to come in because it's not going to happen with carriers alone.

The carriers seem unable to muster the discipline to reasonably price their product,

The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approach. The companies offer everything, but it's not customized to really penetrate the rest of the market.

The carriers are realizing the market is being tapped out.

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

And number three, we think that a number of carriers around the world using an alternative technology known as TDMA or GSM, instead of migrating down a path using a technology called Edge -- which does not involve Qualcomm -- will decide to overlay Qualcomm's CDMA 2001X technology,

The device makers that let carriers maximize their revenue stream will be the favored ones going forward. They will clearly go after the mid to high-market with this venture, which is exactly where Motorola has been the most successful.

The frequent flyer programs could very well be a major source of financial liquidity for the key carriers that have significant programs.

The frequent flier programs could very well be a major source of financial liquidity for the key carriers that have significant programs.

It's scaring the heck out of me, ... In the next two weeks you're going to see carriers that may not be out of business, they're going to start parking their rigs and hoping for something better. We're losing money right now every time we run.

That harmed some of the other carriers it competed with who simply could not provide fares at those levels and not lose money.

It's an ever evolving threat and carriers are constantly refortifying their firewalls making them bigger, better and stronger to combat the threat.

It will be years before wireless carriers are at a level where they can handle the type of volume that landlines can.

They've just set that post office up to fail. All the important hours of the day are gone. Our carriers are gone. They've left one clerk at the counter who has to run the whole show. At the minimum, they need to put a part-time person in there.

None of the big carriers offer low pricing unless they are forced to,

The legacy carriers have a real disconnect with their passengers. Try to start a conversation at a cocktail party about how much you love your old-line carrier and see how long it takes someone to throw a canapŽ at you.

The legacy carriers are dinosaurs. The investment that has to be made in people and equipment and the requirement that you keep these things full and moving all the time -- it's a daunting task.

All of the carriers are racing toward providing more and different services location services, concierge services and the core service that most people seem to want to communicate by voice is being neglected.

The market is concerned that jet fuel costs are dragging them down. Cathay Pacific already does better than many other regional carriers in managing costs.

At last count, there were about 50 low-cost carriers in Europe, which is totally unsustainable.

As we forecasted yesterday, it took less than 24 hours for the five remaining legacy carriers to match Delta's moves.

For Level 3, this helps their wholesale positioning because they can sell more to carriers if they can deliver it all the way to that customer's doorstep.

For example, we have all of these wireless carriers with overlapping systems, and that's clearly inefficient, ... Our living standards go up when we eliminate such inefficiencies.

There will be an influx of funds as global investment communities and carriers look toward increasing their shareholder value by investing in India's growth.

Were it not for data services, most carriers would be reporting negative ARPU.