Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

At this point we're completely focused on market share. We put that focus into three areas. The broadband market saw the high-speed ways of accessing the Internet. The wireless market, especially wireless Internet. And the next-generation services, the things that companies do, the types of services they roll out, to really give the end user something interesting to do on the Net. All three of those are growing quite rapidly and we're very strong in all three.

Existing broadband users were the early adopters who used to pay for the dial-up wait and they got impatient with it, which is why they switched over to broadband, ... We see a slowing down in broadband growth partly because most of the low-hanging fruit of early adopters have been harvested by broadband providers.

Jerry Yang

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

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.

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

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.

As the broadband digital space develops, it's important for rules of the road to be clearly established.

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

Gary Shapiro

American consumers now have more ways to receive video programming than ever. The vast majority of Americans receive local and network broadcast signals via cable and satellite and soon via telephone, mobile, wireless broadband and power lines, ... CEA research shows that currently only 32.7 million of the 285 million television sets in the U.S. are used to view over-the-air television programming.

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

They are taking a hit and are now heavily in debt. But cable providers have got to position themselves this way for the future, in terms of providing broadband services for the payback several years down the road. If they don't, they will be run over by the satellite vendors, video over DSL vendors, and fixed wireless.

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.

Neil Armstrong

Between 7am and 8.30am on Tuesday 8 March, all of our broadband customers lost internet connectivity as a result of planned maintenance on our network over-running from its intended 4am to 6am window.

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.

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

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.

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.

We want to offer customers a choice in TV. By competing with traditional cable TV service, we will expand our network and provide the latest in broadband and video technologies. It's likely that this AT&T network upgrade will spark innovation and investment by other competitors in the market.

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.