Mobile World Congress Chatter: CEOs on Mobile Data

“When you consider the amount of investment needed – and it’s dramatic and stretches across timelines from five to ten years – we need a predictable regulatory environment with a light touch. That will be critical to driving all this, as well as openness across the ecosystem.”–  AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at MWC Q&A per Telecom Asia

“Content is going digital, but it’s about context. Make sure everything that gets served up is relevant, especially as screens get smaller. Noisy internet is old.” –  Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, during a Q&A panel per V3

“I feel very, very strongly that we depend on the successful businesses of the operators globally, and I disagree with that quote ‘we’re trying to turn the operators into a dumb pipe.’ The only specific issue we have is that we don’t want operators to choose between different vendors of the same kind of content.” – Google CEO Eric Schmidt in his keynote address  Appscout

We need to re-invent ourselves to support the operators in building the networked society – this will be their greatest opportunity.”– Ericsson CEO Hans Vesterberg per Gadget

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