Connectivity Issues Quotes

I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me.

Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones.

In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.

I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

My biggest challenges when I first started out were not having a computer or camera or Wi-Fi! The computer and the camera had to be borrowed, and there were times that I used the computer at the library, and I literally sat outside people's houses to steal their Internet connections.

As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, I've logged more than 5,000 miles driving across the country to see first-hand how digital technologies are unleashing opportunity in U.S. communities and to understand the connectivity challenges many Americans face.

I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

I do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.