Why Ocean is different:

I have a portfolio of products that nobody else on this island has.

On State-run telephone companies:

Most incumbents carry high overhead costs and a lot of baggage with them.

On competition arriving in Northern Ireland:

All of a sudden you were treated as a businessman rather than an administrator.

On being responsible for billing in Belfast:

I made sure I collected the money. Outside the politics . . . Politics is not part of business.

Synergies with British Telecom:

If you have a customer in Dublin who wants to do business in the North, I know the levers to be pulled or the contacts to be made.

The industry shake-up:

You will begin to see casualties, rearrangements, alignments and some people will go by the by.