Ajit Pai Quotes

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

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

The FCC on any given day has much more influence than the better known agencies like the entire Department of Health and Human Services.

Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

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

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

There is no lack of profitability or investment among these telecommunications companies. There is nothing that an open-internet order did to them that diminished their success.

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.

There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

Telephone and cable monopolies were positioning themselves to compete with one another.

When the government handed over the running of the Internet backbone to commercial Internet providers, it was the largest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet.

We support an open Internet and having rules - the right kind of rules that are legally enforceable and allow for investment and innovation.

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.

Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.

The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.