Companies need to look at the MVNO market as a long-term commitment and not expect a positive cash flow for at least three years.


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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'...
IRA GLASS
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who ...
IRA GLASS
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, n...
IRA GLASS
In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
IRA GLASS
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that ge...
IRA GLASS
It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil...
IRA GLASS
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
IRA GLASS
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with t...
IRA GLASS
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to y...
IRA GLASS
In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
IRA GLASS
Love is sweeping the country.
IRA GERSHWIN
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
IRA GERSHWIN
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
IRA GERSHWIN
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN
Life is one long jubilee.
IRA GERSHWIN
A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, ...
IRA GLASS
The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-l...
IRA GLASS
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
IRA HAYES
What usually comes first is the contract.
IRA GERSHWIN
That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: ac...
IRA LEVIN
I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
IRA HAYES
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS
You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
IRA GLASS
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS
Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me a...
IRA SACHS
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN
I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL...
IRA GLASS
You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
IRA GLASS
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I...
IRA SACHS
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS
'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS
Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER
Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northw...
IRA GLASS
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps ...
IRA GLASS
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it d...
IRA ERWIN
I would say John Hancock is a definite [buyout] candidate.
IRA ZUCKERMAN
There's going to be further consolidation in the insurance industry, and I would say John Hancock is...
IRA ZUCKERMAN