Ronald Coase Quotes

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

Ideally, the ITU must be made up of truly visionary leaders - those willing to do the hard work to get critical spectrum bands realigned and put to their highest use.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 transmission systems are still regulated.

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

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.

As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

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

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

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

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

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

Our dream was that someday nobody would talk on a wired telephone. Everybody would talk on a wireless phone.