The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.
The Federal Communications Commission, where I have the pleasure of serving, generally has done a good job of providing an environment for Wi-Fi to flourish in the U.S.
I think net neutrality needs to be explored in a broader sense.
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.
The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.
The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.
Instead of fostering investment and innovation through deregulation, the FCC will be devoting its resources to adopting new rules without any evidence that consumers are unable to access the content of their choice.
Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.
Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.
There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
Inadequate infrastructure has social as well as economic consequences. Lack of full access to vital networks—whether roads or broadband or running water—serves to reinforce existing patterns of economic growth and stagnation. It threatens to create new classes of haves and have-nots.
My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have 'no force or effect' and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.
We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.
A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
Net neutrality is at the core of what we love about the Internet. Put simply, it allows any individual or business equal access to online services.
Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available.
The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.
In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It's important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.
The Internet eco-system should be such that users should not pay for Internet connection, content, or anything that is basic.
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
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.
Broadband access is important for everyone, for telemedicine, for telehealth, for communicating.
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
