Ted Waitt Quotes

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.

The mobile phone is not a toy; it's a device that uses radio waves.

I don't have a cell phone.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.

For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!

It's free of hip dialing. You can have some pretty confidential conversations and not get overheard by the camera man by talking into this flip phone.

5G is not going to replace 4G. 4G and 4.5G are going to coexist with 5G.

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

Given a choice, people will demand the freedom to communicate wherever they are, unfettered by the infamous copper wire.

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.

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

We predicted the concept of a telephone that isn't tied to a wall or a desk. We anticipated that everyone would have a cell phone. We joked that when you're born you would be assigned a cell phone and if you didn't answer you had died.

There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

Yes, I was the one people credit with inventing the cell phone. Now, whenever anyone gets a dropped call, they blame me.

I'm mobile.

We thought our vision was right, which was that someday everyone would be walking around carrying phones with them.