#telephone

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content. ↗

— Steve Crocker

#challenging #commercial #companies #content #control

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#i #ring #sit #telephone #wait

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

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#designed #luxury #owned #people #tax

I stay away from the telephone if at all possible. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#i #possible #stay #telephone

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#calls #century #change #charging #did

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. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#compare #just #network #number #people

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. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#another #exception #fax #internet #just

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man. ↗

— Ilka Chase

#best #buy #call #man #phone call

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ↗

— Doug Larson

#none #opulence #paradise #telephone #three