Phone Companies Quotes

When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.

Phone companies recognize that the pipes are not enough anymore. You need something to go through the pipes. You need content. I think the consolidation will continue. A huge development is mobility. We want the content where we are....producers need to be where the consumers want them to be.

Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies.

Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.

Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.

Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.

But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

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.