Daniel Lyons Quotes

AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

I use Verizon. My wife uses Cingular. I also have an AT&T phone for the car.

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones.

FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.

5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.

If you can't get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.

When we travel to other countries, the Internet speed is so much slower. So I think in terms of technology, 5G and Internet speed, Korea has an absolute advantage over other countries.

You cannot prevent collisions if the data that can prevent them is still making its way through the network.

Whether you live in a big city or a small town, a call placed by a loved one, friend, or customer should go through.

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.

For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

What I would like with the Internet is to have it go faster.