Jeff Kagan Quotes on Business & Commerce (33 Quotes)

This problem has been festering for way too long. Now BlackBerry can get on with the business instead of concentrating on this possible shutdown.

Everyone is jockeying for position in a rapidly changing world and industry.

The purpose is really twofold. To update the thinking of investors and customers on the changing company and the changing industry.

There's an explosion of wireless services that are available and a screaming need for spectrum. This is going to be a big boost for the industry.

If they are successful, I expect to see the idea spread. But it will be harder than 10 years ago to be successful as the (competitive) offerings in the industry are maturing.

It's the next natural wave of industry consolidation.

The news is actually good for the industry as we hope multiple companies will compete. This will keep pricing low and innovation high. We are moving into a customer-focused time as both sides compete for the entire, big bundle of services. The whole customer. That's the big challenge.

The big shifts that are occurring in the industry are not having a positive impact on their sales. As the years pass, and as the industry moves toward IP and wireless-based technology, they face more competition.

Wireless is too dependent on the external power supply. And since wireless phones are becoming the main phone line for many people, the industry has to make sure that customers have the same kind of reliability as with landlines.

This ad campaign is ATT's chance to explain what the industry is going to look like going forward and what its role will be. By taking the ATT name, the company got a chance to reinvent itself in the marketplace.

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.

Mike Armstrong jumped in when we all thought we knew where the industry was heading. Before he knew it, the changes that he had made were not helping ATT, and he had to sell his way out of it.

Nortel has been saddled with accounting issues for years. Last year we thought it was done and the company was going to start recovery. This news bothers everyone -- investors, customers and workers. Getting back on track is enough of a challenge as the industry continues to change.

It doesn't get any easier for RIM because more companies want that mobile-messaging business. The market they had to themselves is now something everyone wants a piece of.

Prices will drop and innovation will explode as the two sides try for all your business.

It's going to be confusing. This is the reinvention of the telecommunications industry.

The problem with telecom is not only that it's going through the same economic issues as the rest of the market, but that it's also an industry in transition. Five years ago, ATT's primary competitors were MCI and Sprint, and now it's the Bells and cable companies. Investors aren't sure what the industry is going to look like and which horse to put their 2 bet on.

You can watch TV on your cable, you can watch TV on your telephone, you can watch TV on the computer. This is a transformation that is changing the industry.

This is a progression of the wireless industry. It's getting faster and better for the user all of the time. We're in the process of watching the wireless industry move from a phone-only industry to a third screen, where you can have access to everything at high speeds.

The television industry is reinventing itself, the same way the telephone industry is reinventing itself and they are all blending,

The entire wireless industry is very healthy, and growing very rapidly at this point.

The phone business is a small part of what phones do now. Telecom is moving away from the telephone to consumer electronics.

It's a story about increasing features. It's a sign of the transformation of the industry. It used to be about wireless phone calls, but we're buying based on all the other features.

As an industry, how do we handle this Is it fair to have a company have a competitive advantage based on going into bankruptcy This could force the whole industry to restructure.

Are the phone companies going to be able to last just by stringing a line into the home I'm not so sure. It's in everyone's best interest for the phone companies to stay in business, so we're going to have to discuss this issue and come up with a solution.

They have basically said they are staying out of the porn business. They have no control of what their clients do, but when they hear about it they try to shut it down.

The directories business is not going away. But everything telecom related is in a state of flux.

Both the telephone companies and the cable industry are gearing up to go to battle with each other.

This just seems like a normal part of business. There's no competitive issues here. It has to do with the age.

There will be quite a bit of choice when it comes to watching television and unlike yesterday where customers chose one company to order television from, tomorrow they may choose multiple providers based on the offers. New technologies, and new ways of delivering television shows, like over the net opens up whole new ways to compete and offer services. We are way too early to predict a winner as the industry expands and changes. This is the fun part of watching all the ideas bubble up and find their way, or not.

They're struggling. It doesn't look like they're going out of business, but the industry is reinventing itself and the company is trying to figure out where it fits in.

The telecom industry doesn't need another scandal, ... We'll just have to wait and see what's uncovered.

Telecommunications as an industry in the United States is going through massive changes. We are in the middle of a major 20- to 30-year transformation. When we come out the other side, we'll have the choice of our telephone company versus our cable-television company for the same big bundle of services.