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Carriers haven't delivered a really easy and palatable experience. If you can deliver that with quick snippets of video, people will pay for that.

Carriers have invested a lot of money in their networks. And at this point it's a lot like throwing spaghetti on the wall to see which applications will stick. I doubt there will be any single killer application, but social networking on mobile phones could certainly be one that generates usage.

Carriers around the world are investing in next-generation networks at an unprecedented pace.

If fuel hadn't gone up, we'd be talking about how profitable these legacy carriers are,

I do think we are going to see more combinations as time goes by. What we are seeing now are the first attempts, and customers haven't taken to those combination products as much as the carriers would hope.

How in God's green Earth would they pull that off? I would think the carriers would not be happy about that at all, letting some but not all off the hook.

By the time we get to 2006 or 2007, there will be a ton of new service providers offering wireless voice and data, ... It's too late to think about the number of carriers shrinking. Five years from now we'll be looking at another wave of consolidation.

Tom Price

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Voice Over Internet Protocol has become a media and technology favorite, portrayed as the service that sends local and long distance carriers into extinction.

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

This is not a negative for the industry, ... The union leadership at other carriers are going to be hard-pressed to give up anything. What this does do is help to change contracts that are pending.