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The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approach. The companies offer everything, but it's not customized to really penetrate the rest of the market.

The carriers are the biggest problem. They've been extremely slow in getting people online, and we're somewhat unsure if the medications we're giving out will even be covered.

The carriers seem unable to muster the discipline to reasonably price their product,

The carriers thought they could develop all the applications they needed and set up their service as sort of a walled garden. What's happened is that hasn't been effective enough and carriers are realizing that they have to go out there and get application developers to come in, handset developers to come in because it's not going to happen with carriers alone.

The carriers were initially against this system. But there has been an education process for them--it is a money-saving proposition for the consumer and the cellular service provider. Now they want to test the waters.

The carriers we're using for our private corporate network are the same ones doing the Internet. It's the same infrastructure. There is no distinction between the Internet and the carrier services we're talking about.

The carriers who have the other perils coverage on thousands of homes would be forced to decide whether to cover it all or none of it. We don't have the ability to take on any additional wind exposure. So Citizens would just get larger.

The common theme here is that as the low-cost segment has moved toward improving their product and offering more amenities, the major carriers as a whole have moved toward reducing these amenities. The products look almost the same.

And number three, we think that a number of carriers around the world using an alternative technology known as TDMA or GSM, instead of migrating down a path using a technology called Edge -- which does not involve Qualcomm -- will decide to overlay Qualcomm's CDMA 2001X technology,

For a small carrier, the thing that might be good with rate regulation is that it prevents larger carriers from undercutting and provides us a way to remain competitive in the marketplace. A lot of carriers don't like it because it's an inconvenience and costly, but if you look at it from a consumer's standpoint we have to be able to justify our rates to our consumers and that's the bottom line.

For example, we have all of these wireless carriers with overlapping systems, and that's clearly inefficient, ... Our living standards go up when we eliminate such inefficiencies.

It's the Shreveport-Shanghai advantage, ... It shows that at $2 a gallon for fuel, carriers like American and United have the ability to make money.

For Level 3, this helps their wholesale positioning because they can sell more to carriers if they can deliver it all the way to that customer's doorstep.

At last count, there were about 50 low-cost carriers in Europe, which is totally unsustainable.

It's an honor for our company to be recognized in the PROFIT HOT 50, ... In a very competitive marketplace dominated by large US based common carriers , ShipNorthAmerica has been able to succeed by providing exporters and importers with advantageous alternatives for their Canada/US crossborder LTL (less than truckload) and truckload shipments. It is a testament to the outstanding talent and dedication of our team of experienced trucking professionals that ShipNorthAmerica ranked 35th on the PROFIT HOT 50 and is the only transportation firm to be included in this prominent list of emerging Canadian companies.

Even without a liquidation, the low-cost carriers have a lot of capacity coming in, ... It (liquidation) is not going to be a picnic in terms of fare raising.

Even with the capacity imbalance, carriers are still going out of business.

The numbers tell the story. Year to date in 2005, the company's operating earnings improved by over $450 million, despite fuel costs that are $1.3 billion higher than last year. When United exits bankruptcy in February 2006, we will be ready to compete aggressively with the best carriers in a way that is distinctly United.

It's still several years before carriers come close to emulating the success Apple has had in digital music.

There's been a raft of these low-cost carriers in South America and Asia. The question is, what's the level of oversight of these carriers?

It was always a bad concept and never made sense. None of the big carriers would give up seat capacity. They matched them on every route. Even with their own bankruptcy problems, all three major airlines had more financial resources than tiny Independence.

What's unique about suggesting that grasshoppers are carriers is they are herbivores. They don't feed on blood.

What that allows you to do is to make an investment in an architecture that today might be carrying Ethernet and IP ports, but tomorrow might need to switch to T1, TDM, or storage technology. I think that's one of the things we're very focused on: Allowing the carriers to be wrong. What this technology does is take some of the guesswork out of planning.

We will work with newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, the Internet and mobile telephone carriers to teach people the right way to spit.

We expect low-cost carriers to capture at least 60-70 percent of the market by 2010.

We expect Microsoft's commitment will accelerate deployment of many services that carriers see as important for the next generation of wireless communications. Microsoft's digital media expertise, applied to wireless in a way that focuses on the needs of the carriers, is a very positive step for our industry and consumers alike.

It is still a cyclical business, so management believes (it has) to keep some control over their costs. Other carriers have actually reduced some of their labor unit costs, and American has not been able to do that. That puts it at a cost disadvantage compared to some of its competitors.

It's a bit premature to be talking about what kind of change in product sales we're seeing, because people are still in the process of getting their licenses and trying to get the carriers approved.

It's a chicken or the egg principal. Carriers and brokers are asking 'who is going to adopt this first. 'Who is going to be the leader to build an ACORD XML interface?' The risk is the first one out there is going to have to find a partner to do it with to try to get some type of ROI.

This type of in-depth, professional help is very rare. It's not available for many other complex choices, such as selecting the right Medicare prescription drug plan. Where else can you talk with an impartial, seasoned specialist and quickly learn which carriers and benefits are most advantageous in your case?

Under a code share relationship, it's very much a commercial relationship that allows the carriers to operate independently, even though they might be sharing seats on the same aircraft.

It makes good business sense for Jet, but there is a shortage of infrastructure in India, so allocation (of parking, landing and take-off slots) has to be fair so low-cost carriers are not disadvantaged further.

It's going to be hard for carriers to stick with a system that punishes consumers. Consumers just won't accept that.

There will be an influx of funds as global investment communities and carriers look toward increasing their shareholder value by investing in India's growth.

This legislation would act as a disincentive for insurers to innovate and create new insurance programs. In addition this bill could hurt small carriers in the market. There are over 200 insurers that write property and casualty insurance in Colorado and the vast majority of them are smaller companies. These restrictions to use only Colorado data could make it difficult for them to price their product competitively in our state.

This is the result of carriers ' response to regulatory action. They reacted by rolling out regulated wholesale access products and by introducing additional unregulated value-added wholesale services.

I ask carriers: 'How well do I handle detention issues? Rate me on detention.' Once you start talking about these topics, carriers realize that you're not hiding from the issues.

Carriers around the world are investing in next-generation networks at an unprecedented pace.

Carriers don't like their futures dependent on a single vendor. They may only buy from one vendor, but they want a choice. So it's very important to have a standard that gives them the security to know they can go to another supplier and the equipment will interoperate.

Carriers have a little more market power than they've had in quite some time. And they can call the shots, especially at this time of year.

Carriers have a lot more flexibility today in their choices to buy or customize technology to transform their operations.

Carriers have been wanting to control the experience and have their brand be top of mind with the consumer.

Carriers have invested a lot of money in their networks. And at this point it's a lot like throwing spaghetti on the wall to see which applications will stick. I doubt there will be any single killer application, but social networking on mobile phones could certainly be one that generates usage.

Carriers haven't delivered a really easy and palatable experience. If you can deliver that with quick snippets of video, people will pay for that.

Carriers have to think broadly, and I think they understand now that they can't rely on sole-vendor relationships. It's just a cost of doing business.

Carriers that do enough business with us could drop a full trailer, pick up one of their empty trailers, and go. They don't even have to wait two hours; they can do it in 15 minutes.

Carriers that stayed out of bankruptcy have done a good job of cutting their controllable costs -- oil is obviously not one of them -- and demand for air travel has been very strong. The holiday season has been good for them.

Carriers walk away with a clear understanding of how well we see them.

Come the end of the month you might see some nice incentives for carriers who want current customers to extend their contracts.

How in God's green Earth would they pull that off? I would think the carriers would not be happy about that at all, letting some but not all off the hook.

If fuel hadn't gone up, we'd be talking about how profitable these legacy carriers are,

I do think we are going to see more combinations as time goes by. What we are seeing now are the first attempts, and customers haven't taken to those combination products as much as the carriers would hope.

Being selected as the mobile partner and entrusted with the Halo universe is a huge honor... Ultimately, the Halo deal is an extension of an ongoing partnership, but Microsoft does not make decisions with out doing their due diligence. We feel that our large, existing publishing network (130 carriers and portals across 50 countries worldwide), extensive creative and development capabilities and strong understanding of 'community' were major factors in the company's decision,

Being able to switch wireless carriers while keeping your number remains a huge win for American consumers. We remain committed to quick and easy number porting, and to continuing to lead in customer loyalty by delivering the best wireless experience.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

A more powerful SIM card can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it's good for the carriers because it gives them more control, since they control what goes on their SIM. But it also shifts some of the cost from the handset makers to the carriers.

The Internet model has been that carriers cannot interfere with the choices that consumers make.

The Internet's open, neutral architecture has proven to be an enormous engine for market innovation, economic growth, social discourse, and the free flow of ideas. Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.

The market is concerned that jet fuel costs are dragging them down. Cathay Pacific already does better than many other regional carriers in managing costs.

All of the carriers are racing toward providing more and different services location services, concierge services and the core service that most people seem to want to communicate by voice is being neglected.

The legacy carriers are dinosaurs. The investment that has to be made in people and equipment and the requirement that you keep these things full and moving all the time -- it's a daunting task.

The legacy carriers have a real disconnect with their passengers. Try to start a conversation at a cocktail party about how much you love your old-line carrier and see how long it takes someone to throw a canapŽ at you.

The low-cost carriers are obviously having an impact on the major airlines in terms of pricing.

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.

I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !