Ram Shriram Quotes

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.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

The United States needs modern, flexible, light-touch network regulation, not a one-size-fits-all utility model from the 1930s.

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

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

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.

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.

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.

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

You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at all, but just as an artistic reaction, I find myself being so drawn to moments of silence where things are allowed to breathe.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

I think on both sides of the pond, there are pros and cons to TV and film, and I think that there are things the British people can learn from the Americans and things the Americans can probably learn from us when it comes to the acting industry. But the main thing here in the USA is everything is just a hell of a lot bigger. The sets are bigger, the casts are bigger, the crews are bigger.