Nirmalya Kumar Quotes

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

We think that 5G will likely last longer and be deeper than first thought.

5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.

5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

How can you franchise hospitality?

I don't see anything Wal-Mart can do that other retailers can't.

I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

I use Verizon. My wife uses Cingular. I also have an AT&T phone for the car.

To say that Wi-Fi is a critical component of Internet access in today's always-connected society doesn't do it justice.

5G is no longer just a buzzword.

Actually - and ironically - people aren't really interested in a new brand form or flavor as much as they are interested in how a brand can change, impact, or improve their lives. They want brands around them that make them feel special and provide some social cache or confidence.

Our brands - Nike, Converse, Jordan Brand and Hurley - are loved by customers all over the world. But we never take that for granted; we know that every day we have to earn their trust - by serving them completely and adding real value to their lives through products and experiences.

When I was on SmackDown, there wasn't really competition against Raw in our locker room. It was more about how we could build the brand as a whole, not so much against Raw. I think that drove us to show what our women could do.

We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be like Best Buy? No. Are we going to be a small Dell? No. We are going to be uniquely Gateway.

I think the reason that we do things the way we do is because we respect the customer. And I don't look at what we do as anything less than any other brand.

The biggest cost of my business is competition - promoters bidding against each other to get a tour.

It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.

We are now focused on the brand, not the channel.

Brands don't just care about views. Brands care about their brand first.

I can't mix different sports brands together. I would never go to the gym wearing a Nike sweatshirt and Adidas shoes.