Roger Entner Quotations

Music could certainly be much bigger if pricing was more in line with what you find on the Internet.

Now, you have a choice between talking to your spouse on the phone or listening to music. What are you going to do?

There are no points for trying. There only are points for winning. The old SBC is a company that won.

Other than underwear, a cell phone is the only thing that most people have with them on a 24-hour basis, no matter where they are. And it's used not just for talk, but to surf the Web.

I think RIM has a similar future as a lot of other once-dominant companies that Microsoft eyed. You might survive, but you're diminished.

I think the overall numbers will be average at best.

It gives them a larger reach so they can fight cable in their whole footprint. Now, there's no hiding from AT&T .

I think it has a chance of being a major product. It just adds another tool to that Swiss Army knife we call wireless phones.

The application of prepaid phones for nefarious reasons, is really widespread. For example, the terrorists in Madrid used prepaid phones to detonate the bombs in the subway trains that killed more than 200 people.

Wireless high-speed data is their one shot to stem the precipitous decline in voice (average revenue per user), which they need to make up with really compelling features.

Wireless is a game for the big boys.

Most executives are oblivious to the security challenges. You have to disarm all the security stuff because the executive can't figure out how to work it.

You can get your hometown local news channels while you're on vacation in a country where you don't understand the language.

What they're buying are the rights to access one of the fastest growing regions in the country.

This will start to show up on the radar screen in 2006. The more different pieces we add to these Swiss Army phones, the easier it is to get user acceptance for the next application. And especially around next Christmas, the convenience of shopping on a computer or a cell phone will beat the mall hands down.

The top four sports in the country are football, NASCAR, baseball and basketball, and half of those are now exclusively available with Sprint,

You are marrying the most successful music player with a cell phone.

Training costs time on the front end, but it really saves a lot of time on the back end because you don't have 25 people asking questions later, one by one.

We see an enormous opportunity in the mobile market for data services. The biggest hole in the mobile network operator offering is the lack of guaranteed privacy. Users want to control access to and use of their personal information to avoid the type of trouble the theft of credit data is posing on the Internet.

While it is very annoying to get spam in your e-mail account, it doesn't cost you anything, whereas on a wireless phone it costs you up to 10 cents a message.

Both want the other to leave, but it's such a fruitful business that the one leaving would be severely hurt. I don't see the ownership structure change any time soon.

Enterprises want an easy solution from somebody they trust. IT departments are typically installation-avoidance departments.

There's quite a bit going on in this area, and it will get bigger.

The phone really brings Apple's superior software design into the mobile world. The one little disappointment is that you can't download the songs over the air.

You need to find a balance between minimizing the support costs and making your people happy and cooperative.

If Microsoft had won this contract the battle for the mobile media player market would have been close to being over.

AT&T in wireless is such a wounded name. It gives everybody the creeps who experienced the AT&T Wireless experience.

It's really a great idea that has been realized past its prime; it's like today somebody coming out with a Ford Model T. These (new) devices are very powerful in terms of computing capabilities; they can look at regular Web sites and work just fine.

The cool thing about the ticker is that it makes impulse information access a reality. Here the Web comes to you and that's why it will drive usage.

The use of wireless telecommunications services in the United States generated a consumer surplus of $157 billion per annum in 2004. Were U.S. carriers to charge at European Union levels, we estimate that the U.S. consumer surplus from wireless services would be halved, demonstrating that U.S. consumers and businesses enjoy substantially greater economical welfare from wireless services than their EU counterparts do.

It has every component that has proven conducive to the consumption of adult entertainment - privacy, easy access, and, on top of it, mobility,

In the old days, the content was your voice. Now, with the Internet, we have different content.

It's an awesome idea just like Napster was, with all the consequences that come with it.

Nothing has really changed. It has zero impact on pricing.

The MP3 market is going to collapse, with everything going to be in cell phones, ... It doesn't bode well for anybody else except, maybe, the five-dollar MP3 players from China.

The (carriers) are not doing a great job (selling added features) and they know it.

The carriers are realizing the market is being tapped out.

This is already your most personal item. The only thing you wear more often on you is underwear. For some people, even that's optional.

It's a huge deal because the premier mobile music player is coming to the wireless industry.

It's an ugly detour, and an acknowledgement of how challenging of a business model it is to offer music. There are phones that already have an FM tuner in them -- why do I have to pay $7 a month for radio?

Everyone knew the steamroller was coming, and now it's staring them in the face.

They are basically scorching the earth for the record labels. The biggest loser is the music industry.

It's a deluxe music player now on your cell phone,

It's like throwing your hair dryer in the bathtub, ... Everything shorts out.

It's basically an admission that Amazon can sell books really well over the Internet, but they can't sell phones very well.

This is version 2.0 of the media player battle. It shows that somebody is fighting back.