9 Quotes by Garry Betty

Last year, we had an ambitious agenda, and we delivered with a series of initiatives that are reshaping our position in the marketplace and redefining what it means to be an ISP. Building on the strength of our core access business, we are evolving into a total communications company that will deliver an expanding portfolio of voice, data and wireless services to residential and business customers.

Wireless Philadelphia represents an important milestone in the deployment of wireless broadband in the United States on such a wide scale. It provides a competitive alternative to high-speed Internet offerings and gives many Internet users the ability to stay connected, no matter where they are in the city.

We have been so disenchanted about our ability to get access to broadband pipes that we felt like we needed to take a more proactive stance. Our model would prefer that we be a non-facilities-based provider, but if you don't have people who own the network willing to sell it to you at a price that you can make a living, you've got to change the name of the game.

We think we have made some very strategic, very smart bets,

EarthLink, once again, achieved strong financial results with one of our most profitable quarters on record.

The timing is propitious. The FTC did help us perhaps get this done a little bit sooner than it would. I think Time Warner is genuine in their interest in providing multiple ISPs access to their cable plan and we're happy we're the first one,

Cable is still a small piece of the pie. The predominant way people will be connecting, even in five years, will be over plain old copper phone wires.

But it's a hard living. It's like being a sharecropper. They are basically selling (access) to me for almost what they are selling it to consumers. And it's hard.

Hey! I've got a better service, but you're going to pay me $10 dollars more a month for it.