Reed Hundt Quotes (15 Quotes)

Ten years and one month after Congress passed the Telecom Act, Ed's become the biggest winner so far. That's a long time to build a company, and I don't think he's made a bad acquisition along the line, while almost everyone else has.

There's no really good reason why the price for international calls should be so incredibly much higher, ... But we're going to take some very aggressive step to drive that price down.

The New Orleans calamity proved overwhelmingly the government's inability to solve chronic, fundamental problems with communications. No one in the government has shown leadership on this issue, and now the results are tragic.

Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

In lots of places, the Internet is like trying to shovel oatmeal down a straw. You know it's very difficult because the amount of bits that are being communicated and the services and routers in many places really aren't ready for the capacity,

(Cable) has a very powerful infrastructure. It's got a tremendous ability to deliver high-speed Internet access. I think people will find that cable has many, many more channels to offer, making it even more attractive relative to its competitors,

Ed would say that I didn't pass the right rules and that my successors didn't pass the right rules. But the vagaries of regulation have not gotten in the way of his dream, and he's made his business dream come true.

As a result of this order and the WTO agreement, we predict that the average price of an international call will drop from 88 cents today to 20 cents five years from now,

There's no doubt whatsoever the FCC has jurisdiction in this area, ... We always have the right and responsibility to investigate any use of the public airwaves that has an effect on the public interest, particularly the interest of children.

The auction of AWS spectrum is primarily important because it creates the opportunity to change the market structure of the cellular industry.

We still don't have to do this if broadcasters turn down the bags of bucks. A failure of broadcasters to reaffirm the voluntary ban is likely to lead to an outcry that would justify a notice of inquiry.

This is what President Clinton called for in the 1994 State of the Union address, ... and we delivered.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

Ed's not the type to rely on a lot of glitzy presentation. He's made some huge bets, and I think he's been absolutely right about them. His business decisions speak louder than his words.