Bell Quote by Ajit Pai

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things…

— Lester Thurow

The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty…

— Tim Wu

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can…

— Paul Boutin

Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.

— Marvin Ammori

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

— Daniel J. Bernstein

While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed,…

— Om Malik

“I did not get why the world needed the third ecosystem in phones, unless we changed the rules.”

— Satya Nadella

An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.

— Tom Peters

Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.

— Marvin Ammori

Mobile users happily suffer bad connections, dropped calls, inaccessible networks and pay higher charges for services that would have caused endless annoyance on a…

— Sucheta Dalal

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.

— Michael Gerber