Charles Golvin Quotations

More people are getting used to getting their news, sports, weather, music and video on that device, and with that will be more demand for faster networks.

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.

Having wireless broadband would help some of these disaster situations. But it's not the panacea.

Our research has shown that consumers will use technology to regain control over their entertainment, research, advertising choices, communication, and services, while multi-room DVR is a key revenue generator for the industry.

That doesn't sound like a big number, but it is up from zero a couple of years ago. That is rapid growth.

I won't necessarily ascribe evil intent to this, ... but if they make it a little more difficult for you to get out of that service, even for a month or two, then that's better for their financials overall.

Manufacturers need to synchronize handset releases with network launches.

Manufacturers make a lot of money selling these accessories.

Microsoft in the long term wants the kind of strong position in mobile devices that it has in PCs,

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?

Users are less likely to switch when it means replacing a functioning home network.

Brands by themselves, and especially new brands, you can't really judge it on their own. It's how it's presented.

BellSouth customers could eventually see IPTV much faster through AT&T than they ever would have with BellSouth.

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.

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.

Rather than be eaten away from below, Cisco gets to protect its business a little longer.

The most important thing is to make sure people have access to broadband.

Demand is limited, and the use models are at odds with the business goals of device makers' biggest customers: the mobile operators.

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.

This is a fairly significant step ahead for Yahoo.

You don't have any legal recourse against people who are essentially interfering with your service.

It's a very nice innovation. It's more about retaining customers and giving them more reasons to stick with Yahoo.

It's an entirely different operating model for Cisco.

This is in part due to the way they are marketed.

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.

I really don't expect much movement at all. Those prices are highly regulated by state regulators.

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

By and large, consumers are going to opt for doing it on their PC, because that's the place where they want to manage their music, keep their library.

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

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.

You won't have to dial up and the bandwidth will be higher,

The future of devices that don't have some kind of connectivity built into them is pretty bleak. It's going to be the case that almost anything you can think of is going to connect to other things, most often wirelessly,

The Internet provides a powerful way to get around these problems and artists are starting to learn how to use it to reach out to fans.