Subscriber Quotations

We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

More important is the opportunity to up-sell Comcast high-speed Internet access. You're getting this subscriber base to bring their own access, and Comcast can sell them cable-modem service pretty aggressively.

OLN is anticipating, as are we, subscriber growth.

Nextel's first-quarter global subscriber growth significantly exceeded expectations.

Sirius has already gotten the Howard Stern groupies. We will see how much his other fans miss Howard and how many more of them will transfer to Sirius. We are looking at the market penetration of Sirius right now. They are showing what the subscriber numbers are state to state. Satellite is clearly a national product, but Howard had a lot of local advertisers.

Mobile operators have every interest in rolling out mobile e-mail solutions to their networks. They see mobile e-mail as an indispensable element in their competitive strategy. It will allow them to use excess bandwidth on their networks, especially after their 2.5G/3G network upgrades, reduce subscriber churn, and eventually become a major source of revenue further down the line.

Mobile operators have every interest in rolling out mobile email solutions to their networks. They see mobile email as an indispensable element in their competitive strategy. It will allow them to use excess bandwidth on their networks, especially after their 2.5G/3G network upgrades, reduce subscriber churn, and eventually become a major source of revenue further down the line.

Motorola has a great portfolio of wireless broadband products that can cost-effectively extend the voice and high-speed digital subscriber lines (DSL) of our IOC customers. The Motorola MOTOwi4 Canopy broadband products are of special importance because they round out the Alltel product portfolio for last mile access to the home.

I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works.

Given the fast take-up rate, combined with subscriber satisfaction, which scores 25% higher than for the analog service, we are targeting 1 million homes to be subscribing to Sky Digital by October.

Growth in specialty advertising was a little lower than expected but subscriber revenue growth outperformed expectations and overall specialty revenue growth for the first quarter was in line.

From a fundamental standpoint, we expect subscriber growth to ramp in the coming quarters, largely from pent-up demand.

Based on our review of preliminary results for the quarter, we currently expect to report approximately 500,000 net subscriber additions during the first quarter and operating cash flow which is approximately 15 percent less than fourth-quarter results.

We are gearing up for rapid growth in our subscriber base due to the many inquiries and requests we are receiving from physician networks and health maintenance organizations in several major markets. Our partnering with organizations such as these tracks with our basic subscription-building game plan of being a value-added service to doctors who recognize that a better informed patient is more compliant and more likely to follow through on recommended treatment regimes.

Hundreds of children have been recovered through the Amber Alert plan, and the ability to ultimately deliver these alerts directly to the phones of nearly 200 million wireless subscribers can dramatically increase the reach of the program. Bottom line, if you have a wireless phone of any kind, there's no excuse for not being a subscriber to wireless Amber Alerts.

Having faced no significant competition so far, Audible has not been able to sustain a profit despite reasonably good revenue and subscriber trends, ... could much more efficiently build and launch their own sites.

We've been through a couple of quarters with a lot of uncertainty around the subscriber numbers, so the last thing I want to do is put out a number that is a stretch.

Sprint PCS continues to lead the wireless industry with record subscriber growth for three consecutive quarters. This quarter, Sprint PCS increased average revenue per customer while it reduced acquisition and operating costs-per-customer compared to the previous quarter.

Recent strength in monthly revenue, coupled with solid subscriber additions, is driving excellent top-line growth in our business.

Our record first-quarter performance provides additional evidence of the strength of our business model and our market, and reinforces our confidence that we can achieve our aggressive goals for subscriber and earnings growth. It has also led us to increase our near-term guidance for subscriber and revenue growth.

Our outlook for the future reflects the continuing rapid subscriber growth and the increasing impact of the cost advantages and other financial benefits that flow from our market leadership.

Optical networking is exploding, and the market will experience tremendous growth during the next decade. As we noted with Digital Subscriber Lines, few important technologies experience smooth and steady adoption cycles. Customers cannot accurately calculate the exact rate of adoption, and the inevitable result is inventory imbalances.

I think folks are concerned about future wireless subscriber growth from the industry perspective and secondly when will Sprint realize some of the meaningful synergy opportunities from the merger?

I think cable is very concerned about what DBS is doing to their potential subscriber base.

It is disturbing that Telstra still has not offered the particular ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) broadband technology that was requested by wholesale customers more than a year ago.

Our U.S. DirecTV business also drove our EBITDA growth in the quarter. We have reached the point where the EBITDA generated by our large subscriber base is outpacing the marketing costs associated with our record subscriber growth. We expect our U.S. DirecTV business to continue to deliver positive EBITDA that accelerates yearly on a going-forward basis.

I was thinking consumer DSL pricing was only going to drop to about $40 a month by 2002, but thanks to this ruling, we'll probably get it down to around $32 by then, ... For every million new lines, there's going to be about a 3 percent reduction in monthly subscriber fees.

I think it was the initial blush on subscriber numbers. That's what caused the stock to sell off.

I was a subscriber to 'Sports Illustrated' like so many of us, and I was overwhelmed by a toxic mix of naivete and arrogance, and just thought to myself, 'I think I can write like this.'

We're a little disappointed in the subscriber numbers at DirecTV, but it's not something to slit your throat over, ... If you look at the other numbers associated with the company, they overwhelm the subscriber numbers.

While the company's overall cash flow and revenue numbers were in line with our expectations, the subscriber numbers were a little disappointing.

While the delay in launch dates for these two highly anticipated products caused a timing shift in expected subscriber additions, the products are becoming available now and will help drive significant growth in the coming quarters.

We deeply value the trust our subscribers place in us and we are working diligently to remedy this unfortunate situation. Immediate steps have been taken internally at the Globe and the Telegram & Gazette to increase subscriber credit-card security. We regret the disruption and inconvenience that this incident may cause.

We're here because we want the board of trustees and ballet management to respond to their audience, their subscribers, their patrons and restore live music, Future Subscriber If There's Live Music.

Today, people expect wireless services to be as fast, reliable and secure as their wireline connections. Nortel's DO Rev. A and IMS/MMD solutions will help make tomorrow's service aware networks more intelligent, and assist CDMA operators in increasing profit potential by creating new business models and service bundling opportunities to enhance the subscriber experience.

Time Warner Cable should again experience a strong growth quarter. Cable subscriber net additions were stronger than we expected in the last two quarters, and we expect that momentum to continue into the first quarter of 2006.

The outlook remains unchanged, but the business has to pedal faster on subscriber growth to offset falling average revenue per user in order to meet expectations.

We definitely, coming out of the summer, have seen an acceleration of subscriber additions.

While subscriber growth remains strong, especially in developing regions, the revenue opportunity for the infrastructure vendors appears to be more muted as the market moves from coverage driven investments to more incremental capacity spending. We forecast that increases in WCDMA revenues will more than slightly offset declines in GSM-based infrastructure. The CDMA market has matured such that it is prone to the ups and downs of upgrade cycles, but should see modest growth through the scope of our forecast.

We continued to experience strong subscriber growth during the third quarter, which was the best third quarter in our history, and increased our market share from the year-ago quarter by more than 20%.

We used to be able to collect and show proof of payment to ABC on overdue accounts. Now if a subscriber is one day late with a payment over 90 days, the computer system automatically eliminates the address from the paid circulation averages.

What the success of America Online has to be is to generate additional advertising revenue. They can only up the subscriber fee so often.

We have seen a recovery in subscriber additions and business momentum since RIM settled the patent litigation.

With the litigation now behind us, we believe investors will now focus on the fundamentals - particularly around the issues of market size, subscriber growth, and competition.

With the main benefits of these operational initiatives starting to accrue in the run-up to Christmas 2006, the group expects the phasing of subscriber growth to be weighted towards the second half of this calendar year.

BLOCKBUSTER Online does not throttle. When we say our service offers unlimited rentals, we mean it. We don't prioritize our customers' movie fulfillment based on how often they use our service, and we don't limit the number of movies a subscriber receives each month. We want our customers to get the full entertainment value that comes from a subscription plan, whether that's watching 20-plus movies a month or five.

We are as optimistic as ever about the accelerated adoption of broadband services by consumers, underlined by our strong year-end broadband subscriber growth, ... While content services remain a compelling element of our opportunity, it is critical that the cost structure of our media business correlate with the changing online media world. As we mature as a business and drive towards profitability, we continue to refine our core business.

As the build-out of broadband to the home gains momentum, our revenue from digital subscriber line and cable modem markets is rapidly moving toward critical mass, ... Our growth in wireless handsets is now being complemented by growth in an array of communications infrastructure equipment that use our catalog DSP and analog products.

The subscriber growth is above market expectations. The fact that they've done it in a way they can reiterate their margin guidance rather than have to soften it further is reassuring.

When you look at countries in other parts of the world with penetration rates exceeding 100%, it's only logical to predict that subscriber growth in the U.S. is far from over.

The Russian and international experience shows that traditional fixed-line telephony development has been exhausted. In particular, traffic growth has been decelerating recently, so too has subscriber base growth. Clients need additional opportunities, such as high-speed access to the Internet, videoconferencing, multimedia applications and fixed-mobile convergence.

Total net subscriber additions for the Korean market declined from 550,000 and 417,000 in October and November, respectively, to 164,000 in December. The slowdown was caused in part by a government investigation of illegal handset subsidy payments allegedly paid by carriers in previous months.

We are very pleased with the progress achieved by RIM and its partners over the summer, and we are particularly energized by our prospects for the second half of the fiscal year, ... We are entering the second half with solid market positioning, strong momentum and an impressive line-up of new products and services. As a result, we are now expecting to surpass $2 billion in annual revenue and the 5 million subscriber milestone before the end of the fiscal year.

The most important benefit to the subscriber is when first responders have the patient's emergency medical information easily available on a mobile phone.

With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer.

The modem shortage was well documented. We knew it was going to bring the subscriber numbers in short. But they still managed to come in above the top and bottom line (forecast), which I thought was pretty good.

You would think that whatever's on the screen is what a user will use, so this could help AOL grow the subscriber base.

QUALCOMM is pleased to license Casio, a leading consumer electronics company, for the manufacture and sale of 3G subscriber units. This license will allow Casio to offer 3G handsets that provide consumers the opportunity to have high-quality, high-speed, wireless access to feature-rich multimedia applications and services. Casio's initiative to add WCDMA products to their product line is a testament of yet another manufacturer recognizing the market value of 3G products.

Satellite radio is one of the fastest growing categories in consumer electronics, with Sirius experiencing outstanding year-over-year subscriber growth. We are convinced that Sirius customers are eager to listen to their favorite programs at home as well as in the car, and we have designed a series of connected solutions that will facilitate this new capability.

Our data shows that more games do not yield more gamers. In fact, an examination of the title mix across competing carriers reinforces the lack of any correlation. It is apparent that other factors, such as subscriber demographics and pricing, play a bigger role.

Europe finally joined Japan in delivering meaningful W-CDMA numbers, while the USA also made leaps in EV-DO. We expect both of these technologies will double their subscriber counts in 2005.

Ericsson said orders as a whole remain strong, but it is just seeing a push out in most mobile system shipments due to economic uncertainty as well as slower subscriber growth in the U.S. as subsidies have been cut. Fewer subscribers means lower phone use, which translates into slower systems build-out, which is what we are seeing in the U.S.

This will give a larger subscriber base a chance to try XM content without going through the hassle of getting the necessary equipment. If they find the programming valuable, it would be a lot easier to sign them up. The added distribution that XM will get from this relationship will be very beneficial.

The nature of the telecom service business is changing -- services are becoming more numerous, varied, and complex. Operators expect to sell hundreds if not thousands of services, which means service delivery may soon require a wide range of policy-based variables, including presence management, time of day, device type, subscriber permission, subscriber preference, subscriber age, location, role, billing arrangement, and many others. Operators will need to store the expanding range of parameters that can be applied to individual subscribers and check against these to see which features apply as soon as a user requests a service.

In countries where DTH pay-TV has been available for over five years, as in North America and Europe, the market is mature and subscriber growth is slowing. Where DTH pay-TV platforms were launched after 2000, subscriber growth rates are higher. In India, for example, DTH pay-TV subscribers are expected to have tripled in 2005.

I'm surprised to see them doing it. I don't know if I'm thrilled with it. While it would make them more price competitive and generate greater subscriber growth, I think they tried to be an AOL before and failed,

I have not got one call from a subscriber or a reader who complained about that ad. Not one letter or e-mail.

I'm responsible for the growth of the business, and there are many different ways we can do that, through looking at subscriber growth and revenue per household.

The addition of AARP The Magazine to our roster of members enrolled in the Subscriber Profile service is further indication of the desirability the service has in the marketplace. Publishers and advertisers clearly realize the importance verified data and standardized reports play in the media buying process.

The new high-speed entertainment services offered via the Sprint Power Vision Network represents another key milestone in the development of consumer wireless services, ... Sprint already enjoys the highest revenue per retail subscriber in data-oriented services in the industry and will likely woo many more customers with these new, innovative services.

A Chilean subscriber in Detroit would see a local ad, not an ad for a supermarket in Santiago.

Once again, we expect a very solid quarter, fueled by strong subscriber growth.

YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.

Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don't put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.

It speaks loudly about the value of the Hughes assets. It had been unduly depressed due to arbitrage. A primary driver will be continued expansion of DirecTV subscriber base, which shows no signs of weakening.

Their digital subscriber lines are not growing as fast as they would like it to.

Their subscriber acquisition cost was great for the quarter, and raising guidance to 6.2 million was good news.

It's interesting to note that while per subscriber valuations have fallen for public (cable companies), they remain relatively strong in the private market.

They claim to have been weeding out a lot of their low value added subscribers and focusing on the more profitable subscribers. I think that's why you saw 2003 and 2004 subscriber numbers decline. Now they're coming back.

In about a year or two the file will become 100 percent controlled circulation. The 120,000 rate base and the subscriber base will remain the same.

I think Nokia is another great buy at this point, ... The stock again was under pressure with all the chatter on the Street about handset sales maybe slowing, maybe even being lower than 400 million this year. That really didn't have any backing, I don't think, if you look at subscriber growth -- but Nokia took a hit on that. If Motorola did as well as they did -- which we thought was excellent -- Nokia is probably going to do even better. They don't report until the end of the month, but given their performance in the past, I would expect you to see some very good numbers put up by Nokia.

In the last two years, it has made the greatest leap, and that makes us the fastest-growing subscriber income of any publication.

If you really want to get your hands on one of these without camping out at a retail store, the best advice we have ... is to sign up for one of the 'delivers' programs (a subscriber email from Toys R Us.com). This gives you a sneak peak into what we're doing. You learn first when we're going to put them on sale. But even then, you're going to have to be fast on the mouse.

By joining us, the Subscriber will not only be receiving top quality music but you will be part of a new paradigm we've created to sustain the creative energy of our artists. We believe in the importance and power of music, and we are committed to continuing to making available our broad vision of contemporary trends in music.

It's an accepted strategy that has been widely used. You buy a premium product, and the increase in subscribers more than offsets the cost. Golf is a strong TV sport. I think you'll see the channel grow in subscriber base over the next two to five years.

Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content like ESPN that people have an affinity to.

Any young company is going to struggle to find the right balance between growing and conserving money. But if a new subscriber is going to eventually pay more than XM spends to sign them up, then the company is doing shareholders a favor by growing as fast as they can.

AOL, ... is the Internet play out there. It is the only fully integrated Internet player in the space. It basically has multi-brands across different areas of the Internet. And their flagship AOL Internet service continues to show very, very powerful subscriber growth.

The business model is still principally subscriber driven with advertising being a nice add-on.

The dominance of the handset subsidy model and 12-month upgrade cycles in Western Europe combined with the introduction of a number of highly publicized, multimedia-oriented high-end handsets to drive demand in a mature market that is witnessing saturation of subscriber growth,

The idea is that you get all these different data sources put into a local information grid so that you are a subscriber to the grid. You can call down the information for whatever you need, when you need it.

Football is critical to the development of a strong and sustainable subscriber base for Pay-TV broadcasters,

It's those kinds of data services that are in their early stages but have opportunities for both companies to increase their (average revenue per user) beyond the core subscriber base.

The numbers were great ... they have great ratios, they have very affluent subscribers and their revenue per subscriber goes up every month. These guys are what every cable company wants to be when they grow up.

There were two key trends in the global wireless market in 2005. First, emerging markets contributed phenomenal levels of subscriber growth. In particular, Russia, India and Indonesia saw major growth in new users in 2005, up 40-50 percent over 2004 levels.

This is what has led to our monthly subscriber net adds...which are more than what we had expected at this point of time.

There were less subscriber losses at AOL. They did a decent job there.

This is yet another example of how AOL is becoming a company that's all about broadband. There's no question that all the forecasts point to the dial-up subscriber count decreasing in the next few years. AOL understands that.

They're on the right track for subscriber growth, ... But more importantly, they're starting to focus now on getting more money out of each subscriber. So one of the tricky things will be to get people to stop focusing purely on subscriber growth and start thinking more about revenue per subscriber. They've got their own sort of gathering area for shopping for e-commerce, for Christmas time. Remember e-commerce season starts now with back-to-school and peaks with Christmas. This is going to be a time of a lot of excitement in the Internet space and we think AOL is well positioned to take advantage of that.