Roger McNamee Quotes

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.

To say that Wi-Fi is a critical component of Internet access in today's always-connected society doesn't do it justice.

5G is no longer just a buzzword.

I find myself without Internet a fair bit in the house I live in in Streatham.

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.

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.

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

5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it's quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

It is important to note that Internet access is not a necessity in the day-to-day lives of Americans and doesn't even come close to the threshold to be considered a basic human right.

I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.

I used to be a pretty hard-core iPhone fan. But over time, I grew more and more frustrated with the lousy service on AT&T. My iPhone simply could not reliably make and hold a phone call. Not just in New York and San Francisco, where I spend a lot of time, and where AT&T's service has been notoriously bad for years.

5G trials will accelerate in 2018, and in 2019, we can expect to see meaningful deployment in the U.S., China, and potentially other markets like Japan.

Broadband is not a luxury; it's critical infrastructure.

Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.

There's a reason why Silicon Valley is the worldwide innovation center, or why this is the startup valley, because I truly believe startup companies like mine are pushing the economy forward.

High speed Internet access isn't a nice thing to have, it's a necessary thing to have.

Some people are using landline connections and dial-up modems to call ISPs in other countries and get onto the Internet. Still others are using satellite connections.

I came to Silicon Valley in 1997 and joined WebEx. At that time, WebEx was small, only 10 engineers and two co-founders.

I was the first one to have high-speed Internet before all my friends.

While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.

In 2005, I had a blog, where people discussed topics such as a sustainable economy, renewable energy, and broadband coverage.