"The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share"
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The final move is the boldest: "maintaining if not gaining market share". That "if not" is doing heavy diplomatic labor. It offers two optimistic outcomes while avoiding the one people fear: losing ground. The sentence is engineered to be un-disprovable in the moment, because it relies on belief, approximation, and comparative ambiguity. It's a statement designed for a room where confidence is currency - investors, rivals, cabinet colleagues, or any audience primed to punish weakness.
Contextually, it reads like crisis management in an era when communications tech was becoming infrastructure and therefore power. Whether talking about literal wireless networks or metaphorical lines of influence, the intent is the same: normalize the downturn, claim competence, and project momentum. The subtext is not "we are winning" so much as "do not panic, and do not defect."
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Perez, Antonio. (2026, January 17). The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-wireless-segment-is-approximately-50-percent-40718/
Chicago Style
Perez, Antonio. "The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-wireless-segment-is-approximately-50-percent-40718/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-wireless-segment-is-approximately-50-percent-40718/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

