Subscriber Quotes

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

You are seeing a bit of a stalling in the growth of the dial-up market. It is still growing, but at a much less vigorous pace than last year. Subscribers are beginning to convert over to DSL, or cable modems, and that's eating into some of the incremental growth of the existing Internet Service Providers (ISPs). But I think the ISPs have a real opportunity to convert their existing dial-up subscribers into broadband subscribers. In fact, they have a better opportunity than any other players out there; but, in order to recapture Wall Street attention, they have to begin to make that happen in a meaningful fashion. - Frederick Moran

XM is unique because we have hundreds of programmers delivering millions of songs plus live news, live sports and talk directly to subscribers. - Chance Patterson

XM added a record number of new subscribers in 2005, representing 84-percent growth over prior year ending subscribers. We have more than six million subscribers today, and we expect to reach more than nine million subscribers by the end of 2006. - Hugh Panero

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. - James Murdoch

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. - Charles Ardai

With pick-up averaging 1,000 customers a day, we are achieving our targets of having 400,000 new subscribers annually. - Michael Lai