Joe Laszlo Quotations

Should service providers use existing wiring in the home, or should they use wireless? This is still an issue that is still very much open for debate.

There aren't a lot of direct synergies here. But there are a lot of indirect synergies.

I think there is room for some new communications application to come out of left field and surprise everybody.

I think all (the IM companies) think that this is an idea whose time has finally come. All of them realize that while voice chatting between IM users is a nice thing, what they really need to do longer term in order to make the platform more viable is make that connection out to the phone networks.

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

The AOL/Time Warner merger could really bring broadband from the cutting-edge, early adapter users to mass-market consumers, something AOL excels in,

What they're left with is figuring out a better message around why broadband is worth it.

Together, they emit 1,500 pounds of mercury annually.

While this is unexpected, it indicates that AOL is remaining technologically agnostic. But I wouldn't expect AOL, if they expand DSL trials further, to compete in the same markets as Time Warner.

ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.

Within the U.S., it's a pretty iffy model. FON faces some real problems.

We see a fair amount of resistance...not a lot of interest to switch from dial-up to broadband.

People realize it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.

E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.

I'm sure one of the clauses in AOL's deal with broadband partners was a fairly hefty commitment as far as how many customers would make the switch. Two dollars removes any sort of price-related inertia that their dial-up customers might feel.

Clearly it is a really different world than we were living in 1996.

Holy mackerel. ... That's not small beans in these jaded times.

It's interesting this announcement comes so soon on the heels of the Time Warner deal. One of the synergies we see between AOL and Time Warner is TW giving AOL access to their cable.

AOL's (customer) base has been with AOL for a long time and has long-established relationships with people. Your online identity is defined by your e-mail address and online or screen name. AOL does community very well.

Some will see this as the apocalypse while others see this as natural evolution.

For all the new-fangled things people like to talk about, the phone has been the phone for 100 years now,

It's that performance improvement that content distributors have as their key value. By distributing content throughout the Internet, they can improve performance from an end-user's perspective.

There was this assumption that as soon as people got a notion for what broadband was, they would want it -- that it would be as automatic in some ways as adoption of the dial-up Internet was in the U.S., where growth was very quick and almost happened by itself as opposed to really needing to be sold.

They're going to sell about five of them. I'm all for integration, and I think customers are, too, but this is way too expensive for the market right now. It's ideal for college students, but they're exactly the ones who can't afford this.