Data Plans Quotes

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

I know how important it is to have affordable and reliable access to cell and Internet services.

Why will I not give free service to my customers to get them used to mobile Internet, and to get every small town and village to use it? Everybody does promotions. In the internet world, free is normal.

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

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

The problem with the mobile industry is that it deals with an intangible service which is largely similar across major players. Most consumers cannot tell the difference between Vodafone and Orange, or AT&T and Verizon in the U.S., beyond the colors and the logos. I suspect neither can the companies.

I'm so tired of cell phones.

The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.

Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.

Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.

By the way, one other thing, T-Mobile, these cellular providers offer all kinds of data deals to get you to sign up. You can stream Netflix on T-Mobile, I think, with no cap. There's all kinds of opportunities for people out there. You don't need command-and-control central authority trying to regulate all of this stuff because all of it, again, is about punishing success from the left.