Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

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

Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

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

Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.

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.

LTE has accelerated faster than most people had anticipated. It really took off very quickly from the time it was introduced. We did have our internal development road map, but we just needed to accelerate it.

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

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

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.

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.

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

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