AT&T's strong second-quarter earnings reflect steady progress in executing our strategy. In fact, two of our growth businesses, AT&T Wireless and AT&T Solutions, grew revenue more than 40 percent each. |
Despite the departments' conditions, we are very pleased with the outcome. |
Japan has one of the largest concentrations of multinational companies in the world. It's an extraordinary growth opportunity for all three companies and it is essential that the global venture have a strong distributor in this key market. |
People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time. We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space. |
That's not where we want it and there's much more to be done to achieve more growth. |
This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable TV. |
We'll take it from there. |
We're getting the fat out of the company. |
We're putting the best brand in communications with the best broadband infrastructure in America. |
We've had some starts and some stops with America Online. The way a network operator like we make money is with network traffic ... we just haven't been able to get together. |
What today's announcement means is a mutual commitment to make this work. |