Mo Ibrahim Quotes

The mobile phone is not a toy; it's a device that uses radio waves.

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

Well, the United States will continue to be a world leader in wireless communications.

The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.

Yes, I was the one people credit with inventing the cell phone. Now, whenever anyone gets a dropped call, they blame me.

We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

Phone networks can capture life on our planet.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.