Tero Kuittinen, a telecom analyst with M.G.I.
"It's a very odd mix at this point," said Jan Dawson, a telecom analyst for Ovum.
Did they make it all up?" asked Patrick J. Comack, a telecom analyst at Guzman & Company.
Craig Moffett, whom I consider to be the smartest telecom analyst around, was forced to blame the market.
Michael McCormack, a telecom analyst for Nomura Securities, called the business "healthier than expected" for the quarter.
"Vodafone is already paying a full price," said Will Draper, a telecom analyst at Espirito Santo in London.
Sure, most of the companies whose stock the fabled Wall Street telecom analyst bullishly plugged have gone bankrupt.
It's not the phone carriers that should be sweating about the changes in texting, said Chetan Sharma, an independent telecom analyst.
People who were on the fence about buying an iPhone might pay a little extra just to be able to show off, Mr. Sharma, the telecom analyst, said.
"Net neutrality arguments have been reduced to bumper stickers," sighed Craig Moffett of Sanford C. Bernstein, Wall Street's premier telecom analyst.
"It's just amazing that the average revenue per account keeps growing," said Tero Kuittinen, a telecom analyst at Alekstra, a mobile diagnostics firm.
