Mike Fitzpatrick Quotes

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

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

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.

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

While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.

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.

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

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

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.

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.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

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.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits