Communication Infrastructure Quotes

In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.

Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

The free flow of information is vital for economic development.

The FCC has been hard at work doing what we can to help close the digital divide.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.

Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented.

I can assure you that the United States intends to pursue the best course of action to meet its own spectrum needs.

I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.

I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.

Whether you live in a big city or a small town, a call placed by a loved one, friend, or customer should go through.

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.