Telecommunications Services Quotes

I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society.

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.

Protecting consumers goes beyond just fighting illicit schemes. It also involves making sure that they get what they pay for. Unfortunately, rural telephone customers aren't always assured of that.

My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

The FCC on any given day has much more influence than the better known agencies like the entire Department of Health and Human Services.

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

People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.

There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.

It's often taken for granted that the most dominant tech companies control the world's most important technology and communications platforms. Instead, the truth is that these giants run on top of the world's most important platform: the mobile communications networks.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.

Telecom companies are doing very, very well. And the internet economy is doing very, very well.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

The bottom line is this: I want America to be at the forefront of innovation in the broadcast sector, the wireless sector, and every other sector of the communications industry.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Telephone and cable monopolies were positioning themselves to compete with one another.