Vint Cerf Quotes

The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.

A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

If we didn't have Net neutrality, carriers could do things like penalize companies that use a lot of bandwidth or create high-speed lanes and charge Internet companies extra fees to send their stuff over them. That would give an advantage to big companies and make life harder for startups.

Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.

Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.

The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.

Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.

A ban on paid priority is central to any real net neutrality proposal, beginning with the Snowe-Dorgan Bill of 2006. Indeed, the notion of 'payment for priority' is what started the net neutrality fight.

Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed.

I support greater access to the Internet, but going back to Obama-era regulations is not the answer.

I think there wouldn't be a Net neutrality debate in this country if we really had a competitive environment for access.

I think net neutrality needs to be explored in a broader sense.

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated.

I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV.

The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they have struggled because there has been more than one court case in which it was asserted the FCC didn't have the authority to punish ISPs for abusing their control over the broadband channel.