This merger will enable our customers to accelerate their deployment of high speed data services.

This is a strong validation of the DSL industry. It was clear to us as we were discussing with TI the opportunity for a strategic alliance that [we both] share the vision this will be a huge market.

You're not going to be a big winner in this business with proprietary solutions. It is our desire to be the first to market with those standards-setting systems and to have a very low-cost position in our products so we can compete intensively.

But what happens in the fourth grade you get individual ways you write - you have a unique way of making your A, O or E's.

This individual used a habit of using upper case (letters) where there should have been a lower case.

You start out as if you're going to fool them, and the minute your mind strays to anything else, you revert to the way you normally write.