Charles Golvin
Charles Golvin
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Customers in nearly a third of American households make at least half their long-distance calls at home from their cell phones rather than their more reliable and often cheaper land lines.
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Cell coverage in most people's homes is not all that good. If you have one of these phones and you have a broadband connection and a wireless home network, you can make that call over your IP network.
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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.
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This is in part due to the way they are marketed.
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The fewer clicks it takes to get you to the place that has the information you need, the more likely you are to use the mobile phone for that purpose.
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It's an entirely different operating model for Cisco.
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Brands by themselves, and especially new brands, you can't really judge it on their own. It's how it's presented.
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BellSouth customers could eventually see IPTV much faster through AT&T than they ever would have with BellSouth.
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What are they going to do from a rights perspective? ... Are they going to be more and more restrictive? Or are they going to embrace new business models, new ways to use content that is going to allow this stuff to flow?
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Consumers won't actually begin to see any real change in services for at least two to three years. Eventually, an integrated company could introduce new services more quickly. But there is a risk that a bigger AT&T could move slower.
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Users are less likely to switch when it means replacing a functioning home network.
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This is a capability you need to be competitive. We started with e-mail and instant messaging, and gradually instant messaging has evolved to include voice.
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This is a fairly significant step ahead for Yahoo.
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The most important thing is to make sure people have access to broadband.