Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

I don't even think in the future, pay-per-view is going to exist. You see Netflix and Amazon and what they're doing, and that's a model I think is going to grow and grow.

I feel like - like Netflix is great if you've got a project ready to launch itself into the world rapidly.

YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.

I always admired Netflix's business model; they are really good at what they do.

So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material.

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.

I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person.

We took the brains out of the set-top box and put it in the cloud. Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That's magic.

In 2011, mobile data traffic in the United States was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. That's traffic.

Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

Who could have imagined that a platform like - I'll use Netflix as a example - that it could be so good?

There's no question that the Internet generally, and Netflix specifically, upended the traditional content-distribution supply chain and caused profound changes in the entertainment industry.

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.