Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

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

Some people are using landline connections and dial-up modems to call ISPs in other countries and get onto the Internet. Still others are using satellite connections.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.

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.

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

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.

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house.

The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

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

A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.

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.

I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow speed.

It's vital that low-income Americans have access to communications services, including broadband Internet, which Lifeline helps to achieve.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

Broadband access is important for everyone, for telemedicine, for telehealth, for communicating.

As Chair of the Broadband and Technology Task Force, I will strive to ensure that legislative and regulatory policy making on these rapidly evolving services takes fully into account the needs of the Latino community.

As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, I've logged more than 5,000 miles driving across the country to see first-hand how digital technologies are unleashing opportunity in U.S. communities and to understand the connectivity challenges many Americans face.

To bring the benefits of the digital age to all Americans, the FCC needs to make it easier for companies to build and expand broadband networks. We need to reduce the cost of broadband deployment, and we need to eliminate unnecessary rules that slow down or deter deployment.

We know businesses can't compete without reliable infrastructure.

Broadband is not a luxury; it's critical infrastructure.