Frederick Moran Quotes


You need size and scale, and you need to drive a brand name in order to achieve growth and profitability in this market. - Frederick Moran



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



Yesterday was very frightening. It felt like maybe the bubble was bursting on the Internet stocks. I'm not sure that that's truly the case, but clearly investors are scared right now and they're panicking a little bit. - Frederick Moran



With cable stock prices under pressure, business slightly less robust than previously thought, and market concerns about debt loads, now might not be the ideal time for additional mergers. - Frederick Moran



Whenever you see M&A (merger and acquisition) activity either rumored or announced, comparable companies in that industry tend to react... In this case, Seagram is huge - it has sweeping consolidation implications for the whole group. - Frederick Moran