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. |
It makes sense for companies to merge. They have higher income and lower expenses as the competitive threat grows. |
It sounds pretty cool, |
It sounds pretty cool. But if someone was using it against me, I'd say, 'How dare they! |
It was not unexpected, but the timing was a lot sooner than anyone thought. |
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. |
It's about damn time. ... The marketplace has to hope that this is finally the end. |
It's going to be confusing. This is the reinvention of the telecommunications industry. |
It's going to strengthen AT&T. They'll have a single brand from coast to coast and it will prepare them to compete against the cable companies. |
It's just going to start an avalanche of mergers in this sector. It's been waiting too long. The carriers are fewer but larger than ever... and it makes sense for them to change and merge. |
It's not like we're going to have fewer competitors. We're going to have more competitors. It's just that the makeup is different. |
It's the next natural wave of industry consolidation. |
It's the same effect but there are different rules, ... But that's the problem with technology. |
Local phone service was separate from long distance. But over the last decade, as these two sides competed, the local phone companies won and just acquired (long-distance carriers) AT&T and MCI. Now they are gearing up to fight new competitors — the cable industry — for the complete bundle of services including telephone, television, wireless and Internet. |
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 AT&T, and he had to sell his way out of it. |