Jeff Kagan Quotes on Telephones (14 Quotes)

Of all the names in telecom, only one has the history of ATT. ATT was the name of the phone company since we were kids, and in fact since our parents and our grandparents were kids. It would have been sad and a waste of all that historic brand value.

The television services that we will be using in coming years will look much different than the service we used over the last 30 years. Phone companies like ATT are rushing to offer a competitive television service to allow them to compete with the cable television companies.

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 is the year that we are going to see the phone companies and cable operators offering the same bundle of services. As consumers, we've always done business with both. But now we will choose one or the other. And that is a major market shift.

We started out with seven 'baby Bells' and AT and T back in 1984 with the divestiture. Prior to that there was basically one company, AT and T. Today there are many companies offering telephone, television, wireless and Internet.

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.

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

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

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.

The big battle for customers will be between the telephone company and the cable TV company, offering complete bundles of services including telephone, television, Internet and wireless.

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

If you're talking about a service that everything rides on your television, your telephone, your Internet you're going to want to switch it all, not just part of it.

The amount of people that use telephones is not falling. How they communicate is changing.

What's happening there in New York is an early curve of what's going to be happening around the country in the next few years. This is a new wave of competition. Basically the telephone and cable television companies are both rushing to offer the same bundle of services television, phone, Internet and wireless. The sooner they do, the sooner prices will come down for all the customers.