Wireless carriers are clearly going to have to price data at a clear discount to voice if they want it to prove successful. The departure of Covad CEO Robert Knowling and Lucent CEO Rich McGinn may well be a taste of what's to come in 2001. Although both companies have their issues, neither CEO could be said to have done a disastrous job. Covad's poor quarterly results were caused by the fact that nine of its major ISP customers weren't paying their bills. Nevermind that annual revenues were rising.
Markets are at their most impatient in living history.
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