Hans Vestberg Quotes

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.

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

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

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

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.

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

We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

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

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.

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

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

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

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.

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

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

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

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.

Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV.

When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.