Telecommunications Technology Quotes

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.

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

I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life... That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover.

My father worked for Bell Labs. Hence, I knew very much about the place. I knew it because also he was involved with telephony.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

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

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.

I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.

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.

Next-generation networks are hard to build. It takes a lot of money and effort to lay fiber, install wireless infrastructure, build satellite earth stations, and more. It also requires a reasonably certain business case for deployment, which is all too often hard to prove in parts of the country with sparse population and/or lower incomes.

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

Telecom companies are doing very, very well. And the internet economy is doing very, very well.

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.

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.

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

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