Michael O'Rielly Quotes

The notion that there's finite spectrum is mostly wrong.

I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

Every two and a half years, every spectrum crisis has gotten solved, and that's going to keep happening.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.

No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

I can assure you that the United States intends to pursue the best course of action to meet its own spectrum needs.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

Increasingly, meeting the connectivity needs of all Americans - no matter where you live - means freeing up spectrum to meet the growing demand for wireless broadband.

The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.

Great measures are always rested on small precedents.

What is under our [the government’s] control is the signals we send and the way we organize ourselves.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

I was fully aware of the challenges facing London before I was elected as mayor, but I didn't anticipate the issue that is likely to define my time as mayor - Brexit.

I joined Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill in 1963 as part of A. B. Crawford's Radio Research department in R. Kompfner's laboratory.

The Federal Communications Commission, where I have the pleasure of serving, generally has done a good job of providing an environment for Wi-Fi to flourish in the U.S.

Government is about priorities.