Vint Cerf Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

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.

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

The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.

How do we say to the phone companies that you have to maintain an affordable [subsidized] system for everybody in America and the data companies can do whatever they want? It gives us two different Americas.

Should the federal government be giving people cellphones?

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.

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.

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

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

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

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

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.

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

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.

Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will continue to be an American success story.

Since Charles Dolan founded Cablevision in 1973, the Dolan family has been honored to help shepherd our customers and employees through the most extraordinary communications revolution in modern history.

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.