Greg Gorbatenko Quotations

Like his father, Roberts still has family values but they're packaged in a younger and more aggressive personality. What Wall Street admires about Roberts is that he's made big acquisitions and successfully integrated those units into the company.

Looks like you can pretty much sew this one up. Now Time Warner and Comcast will get relatively bigger scale. While operating well, this leaves Cablevision as the odd man out. Considerably smaller in scale and now without VOOM, it will be hard for the company to compete with the larger gorillas and their economies of scale, which becomes more important as the cable industry matures.

Looks like you can pretty much sew this one up, ... Now Time Warner and Comcast will get relatively bigger scale. While operating well, this leaves Cablevision as the odd man out. Considerably smaller in scale and now without VOOM, it will be hard for the company to compete with the larger gorillas and their economies of scale, which becomes more important as the cable industry matures.

Looks like you can pretty much sew this one up,

Motorola doesn't blindly go after unit volume market share like Nokia, rather they focus on revenue market share, which we believe is more important.

I don't know why you want more of a evaporating business that will slow your revenue growth and lower your margins,

I think they are looking for a buyer. Going public is something in their back pocket.

On the surface, the numbers look bad, but when you dig into them you see health. Moreover, the $5 billion share buyback just announced is exactly what we would recommend. Lastly, while the quarter looked soft due to comps, it should be temporary, as compared to long-term health in the growing cable business, which is why we believe the company can keep to its guidance.

Roberts is aggressive. He sets his sight on something and he achieves it.

People have been betting against them for a long time. This backslide is just something to take advantage of. There is substance to these companies.

That's a tough thing to do, as we have seen with the AOL Time Warner merger. As a business operator, Roberts has cut costs and improved the company's profit and margins.

Wireless is not a failsafe. It's a telecommunications accessory.

Wireless companies spent a boatload of money to prevent churn from happening and pricing per minute dropped significantly, ... Prices fell off a cliff and haven't regained.

What investors want right now is growth and the price for Sprint is reasonable.

We are starting to definitely see that the chip companies have more supply than demand. There are inventory issues, ... And the handset side is tight because of oversupply. There is somewhat of a glut.

Considerably smaller in scale and now without VOOM, it will be hard for the company to compete with the larger gorillas and their economies of scale, which becomes more important as the cable industry matures.

There's so much doom and gloom in semiconductors, any little prayer of hope will be well-received.

There's not a lot of juice left on the telecom service provider side.

The rural carriers are unloved and not getting the attention they deserve.

The telecom slowdown is probably over but that doesn't mean everyone can come out from hiding,

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

SBC is resetting the dial and is probably going back to flat sales growth. Why should I invest in something that's not that exciting of a story?

SBC is resetting the dial and is probably going back to flat sales growth, ... Why should I invest in something that's not that exciting of a story?

Qualcomm is sitting pretty. It has the best technology in a growing industry and handsets are taking off like crazy.

Qualcomm is sitting pretty, ... It has the best technology in a growing industry and handsets are taking off like crazy.

Spectrum is a scarce resource and wireless companies build out their networks based on average expected usage levels. A spike in demand can blow up the network and most cannot handle an emergency.

AOL looks to be slowing the bloodletting and this was a major factor in the aforementioned guidance upping,

This is straightforward. When you crunch the numbers, BellSouth will have the most exposure to wireless and wireless is where you get revenue growth.

This bodes well for Motorola, ... Nokia isn't really stealing market share. The whole industry is doing well.

There was a wireless Internet bandwagon and people went crazy on the capital expenditures side. But downloading movies to your PDA or cell phone turned out to be just marketing hype,

This is vital for the Bells. DSL is very important for their long-term success,

They're spending less, making more, paying down debt and getting back to free cash flow positive. That's what people are paying for,

There is still too much supply out there and not enough demand. You need companies to exit the business to pull back on the supply. That will happen either willfully or through bankruptcy.

It's a great deal for Sprint. They didn't pay much of a premium for Nextel. I'm not sure how they pulled that off.

It's almost a certainty that the dividend is going to need to be cut. You can't keep the current dividend level with falling revenues and falling net income.

It's not that the industry is weak. It's Nokia being weak.

It's ridiculous that Motorola is trading down. Nokia comes out and says industry growth is great but that it didn't get any of it. By deductive reasoning, somebody had to get it, ... People are seeing Nokia is taking a bath and are incorrectly thinking that it's an industry problem.

The Bells need IPTV. They are losing subscribers to cable. It's extremely important for them to trump the offerings of the cable guys and the only way to do that is through video.

The Baby Bells are a better investment than the long-distance companies. I wouldn't be putting new money into AT&T.

ARPU is consistently coming down in the industry and it's partially because there's more and more focus on pre-paid customers, which pay less,

I'm not being overly critical but it could be smarter for Comcast to focus on the fragmented pieces in the (cable) industry, like Charter Communications, RCN and the smaller mom-and-pop type names, ... It may prove to be too much too soon if Roberts tries to run both cable and media businesses.

Incrementally, the Bells may never get the return on invested capital. It's expensive. But it's also preventing customer loss. They have to do it to stay competitive or they'll shrivel down.

I like it. I like it a lot,

This is a leveraged buyout play. The investors' goal was to milk the thing, lever the baby up and take it public so they can focus on their next deal.

The company has to work extremely hard to repair relationships,

The loyalty of a subscriber is driven by price. But all the service providers are going to have to buy equipment,