Walt Mossberg Quotes

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

Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

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.

Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.

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

President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

Giving consumers the power to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers has been great for consumers and businesses alike.

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.

When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

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

The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

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.

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.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.

Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks.