Ajit Pai Quotes

One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.

Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.

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

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

The remote area today is more proximate to economic potential. A fiber-optic cable can go where no road or rail ever has.

Infrastructure is more than laying new roads and expanding transit: it's running the fiber and deploying new technologies for reliable, affordable Internet in every part of the state.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.

Fundamentally, our broadband policy has been and should continue to be based on private sector companies continuing to build out their networks to meet consumer needs.

All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.

Telecom companies are doing very, very well. And the internet economy is doing very, very well.

Carrier networks were originally built for connecting phone calls. Now they're getting swamped with bandwidth-hogging data applications. Keeping up will require huge investments. Who's going to pay for that?

While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.

We had been busy building up fibre infrastructure under the ground in Hong Kong and underneath the homes of people, so when we launched IPTV, it was relatively smoother sailing than in other territories.

We should be careful and deliberate in how we allow public entry into our vibrant communications marketplace... This is an issue that should be left to our states.

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

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

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.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.