We expect within the next six months AT&T will be well on its way to becoming the dominant Internet access provider. No one else can match their reach and their ability to target business and residential customers.
Predictor: Pincince, Thomas
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for The New York Times, Peter Lewis interviews Forrester Research analyst Thomas Pincince. Lewis writes:”AT&T announced yesterday to offer access to the Intenet, saying that it wanted to make online services as common and as easy to use as the telephone. The company, which has 80 million telephone customers worldwide, said it intended to offer Internet services ranging from secure business transactions to electronic mail, voice and video conferencing, and wireless data. Thomas Pincince, senior analyst for Forrester Research Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., said: ‘We expect within the next six months AT&T will be well on its way to becoming the dominant Internet access provider. No one else can match their reach and their ability to target business and residential customers.’ But details were sketchy in AT&T’s announcement, which comes a week after a broad push into Internet services by the rival MCI Communications and a week ahead of a new Internet-based venture by the Microsoft Corporation.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: New York Times
Title, headline, chapter name: AT&T Says It Will Offer Internet Access Service
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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