Vint Cerf Quotes

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.

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

Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.

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

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

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.

AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives significant bandwidth, and the iPhone drives significant bandwidth, and so I think it's a very logical fit.

We create the technology to connect the world. We are a large network company and not restricted to just the telecom space.

5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution.

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

Before I became the president of AT&T's consumer division, I was running strategy and our internet services, so I was the president of one of the first internet service providers, ISPs, AT&T Worldnet, and running our internet protocol product development as well. So I knew a lot about what was going on with the internet.

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.

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.

Latency is very important when you think about autonomous cars and things like that - 5G will really change the game, and I think will be another spike of growth in the wireless industry.

We see some positive signs coming from our North American customers. The desire to move fast to 5G is certainly there.

What I think is happening in China is that they are recognizing mobile infrastructure is actually a critical piece of national infrastructure.

Telco cloud and virtualization remain a clear priority for us, and we became the first vendor to supply a commercial telco cloud solution compliant with ETSI Architecture for end-to-end voice-over-LTE services.

The value that SoftBank saw in us was that we are a technology company in the mobile Internet space.

Here, in low earth orbit, we're going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.

Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will continue to be an American success story.

The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.

I use Verizon. My wife uses Cingular. I also have an AT&T phone for the car.