Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

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

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.

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

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

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

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

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.

In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories.

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.

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

Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

In 1970, there was a single telephone company in the United States called AT&T, and its technology was called circuit switching, and that was all any telecom engineer worried about.

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

Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

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

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

Radio has no future. Wireless [telegraphy] is all very well but I'd rather send a message by a boy on a pony

I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.

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

There were a lot of naysayers over the years. People would say, 'Why are we spending all of this money? Are you sure this cellular thing will turn out to be something?'

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