Our business, along with others in the industry, continues to feel the impact of declines in long-distance voice revenue, |
Our results reflect a business managing through a difficult economic and industry-wide climate, ... In the face of these pressures, we remain focused on controlling costs and growing revenue in our growth businesses. |
Our shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in support of the AT&T and TCI merger and the benefits it will bring, ... The merger is the key to making AT&T the 'any distance' company we need to be and our customers want us to be. |
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, |
That's where I see the real value. There are lots of mobile technologies out there that can work to our benefit. |
The acquisitions and investments we've made over the last year will transform AT&T from a company dominated by a single product line -- long-distance voice - into the leader in a new generation of advanced communications, information and video services. |
The aggregate payout will be reduced, ... Cash flow will not go to dividends but into growth...the dividend payment will be appropriate to the companies' peers in the industries that they compete in. |
The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch. |
The deal gives us reach to some 283 countries, ... It also gives us a facilities-based strategy to provide universal service to our customers. |
There seems to be a lot of fun in reporting that this is a reversal of our strategy, |
These joint ventures bring us another step closer to our goal of giving U.S. consumers a choice in local phone service. |
This agreement will turn a non-strategic investment into cash that we can use to pay down debt, |
This deal will match each company's strength with the other company's business needs, |
This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to attach other services and applications to that voice service was very much a part of our strategy. |