The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.
In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It's important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.
The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment.
I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
We think that 5G will likely last longer and be deeper than first thought.
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.
AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives significant bandwidth, and the iPhone drives significant bandwidth, and so I think it's a very logical fit.
I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, while the internet is like a crime-ridden slum,
Our bet is on the future of micronetworks.
We see opportunities in the networking and telecom space, including 5G, where we see accelerated investments.
Everybody's got cable.
Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I'm really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this.
Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.
We don't know which use cases will ultimately be the most important for 5G, but we know that early adopters tend to get a sustainable advantage.
Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.
E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.
Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.
Actually, we chose the name Sun Cellular because we believe the name 'Sun' is bright, forward-looking and optimistic. It is my sincere hope that the whole Philippines will share our positive outlook, optimism and faith in the country's future.
