Broadband Quotes:

I get really excited imagining what we can do in the future with broadband.

- Julius Genachowski

topic: Excited, Get Real, Broadband

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

- Eric Schmidt

source: "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

topic: Google, World, Broadband, Advertisers

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

- Michael Oxley

topic: Home, Technology, Order, Information Technology, Broadband

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

- Matt Mullenweg

topic: Cities, Ubiquity, Getting High, Broadband, Internet Access

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.

- Tony Abbott

source: Full text of Tony Abbott's budget reply speech, May 12, 2011.

topic: Smart, Government, People, Broadband

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

- Niklas Zennstrom

topic: Skype, Connections, Internet, Broadband, Internet Connection

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

- Michael K. Powell

source: "Broadband Internet Keeps The American Dream Alive & Accessible" by Michael K. Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

topic: Dream, Information, Matter, Broadband, Playing Fields

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

- Malcolm Turnbull

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Years, Quality, Needs, Broadband, High Quality

For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.

- Howard Stringer

topic: Real, World, Eras, Broadband, Digital World

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.

- Niklas Zennstrom

topic: Powerful, Work, Phones, Broadband, Multimedia

Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy...

- Barack Obama

topic: Winning, Technology, Government, Broadband, Universal Health Care

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.

- Niklas Zennstrom

topic: Powerful, People, Connections, Broadband, Internet Connection

We should be leading, and we’re not. We need to get serious about broadband, we need to get serious about competition, we need to get serious about our country.

- Michael Copps

topic: Broadband

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187

- Michael Pollan

topic: Food, Phones, Two, Broadband

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

- John Hodgman

topic: Believe, Government, Laying Down, Broadband, Interstate

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

- John Sununu

topic: Voice, Matter, Standards, Broadband, Interstate

Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home with broadband. There was a big change.It used to be people used the Internet primarily at work, because that's where they had a good connection. Now they're using it at home. And the second big change is, they used it not just to get information, but to communicate with one another. And, so, it became not simply an information exchange, but a personal exchange, a communication mechanism.

- Esther Dyson

source: "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

topic: Communication, Home, Phones, Broadband, Big Changes

People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

- Michael Copps

topic: Sorry, People, Memorial, Broadband, Prompts

Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.

- Neelie Kroes

topic: Deployment, May, Aids, Broadband, Market Failure

This is very positive for our community...The educational facilities in our area are enjoying advanced broadband services over a state-of-the-art 4G wireless network

- Larry Gates

topic: Art, Educational, Community, Broadband, Our Community

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Two, People, Use, Broadband

We're doing some very exciting, bold things, pioneering content on mobile and for broadband, ... My vision is to say, as we take the strategy forward, we are doing it to deliver public remit. We're thinking less and less about C4 and more about the brand family.

- Tim Duncan

topic: Thinking, Vision, Strategy, Broadband, Pioneering

In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom. Now, history is repeating itself with traditional broadcasting.

- Jeff Pulver

topic: Communication, Space, Tvs, Broadband, Telecom

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

- Jimmy Wales

topic: Ideas, People, World, Broadband

If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.

- Viviane Reding

topic: Jobs, Reality, Europe, Broadband, Practical Things

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

- Tony Abbott

source: "Tony Abbott's gaffe: credits Malcolm Turnbull for 'inventing the internet'" by Matt Young, www.news.com.au. June 28, 2013.

topic: Country, Strong, Men, Broadband

The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at night. So therefore isn't the real prime time 9 to 5? Playing games at your desk - that's the new prime time, isn't it?

- Mark Burnett

topic: Real, Night, Playing Games, Broadband, Prime Time

I live by statistics, so if look at U.S. Census statistics regarding families making over $100,000 dollars a year, 93% of them have broadband internet at home.

- David L. Cohen

source: Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Home, Years, Dollars, Census, Broadband

E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.

- Andy Grove

topic: Hype, People, Deployment, Broadband, E Commerce

I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.

- Wolfgang Schauble

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Thinking, Defense, Infrastructure, Broadband

We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

- Keith Ellison

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Country, Thinking, Needs, Broadband, Rural Areas

Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

- Barack Obama

topic: Important, Regulation, Rebuilding, Broadband

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

- Viviane Reding

topic: Clever, Use, Members, Broadband

I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.

- George W. Bush

source: "The Complete Bushisms". www.slate.com. June 24, 2004.

topic: Mean, Technology, Example, Broadband

E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

- Randall L. Stephenson

topic: Data, People, Mail, Broadband, Internet Access

Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

- Ray Ozzie

topic: Past, Ubiquity, Two, Broadband

One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

- Eric Schmidt

topic: Loss, Connections, Negative, Broadband, Online Advertising

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

- John Doerr

source: "Tech leaders: Feds should push broadband" by Patrick Thibodeau, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2002.

topic: Rights, Intellectual, Growth, Broadband

From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.

- Bev Perdue

source: "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

topic: Strong, Military, Bridges, Broadband, Strong America

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

- John Sununu

topic: Innovation, Environmental, Benefits, Broadband

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

- Anne-Marie Slaughter

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Broadband, Aging Parents

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.

- Vinton Cerf

topic: Country, Numbers, Fundamentals, Broadband, Penetration

Gujarat's e-governance projects have been recognized in the country and abroad. To give a few examples- Gujarat has the largest Wide Area Network in the Asia Pacific. It is the first State to provide broadband connectivity in all schools and villages. It makes maximum use of video-conferencing including trial of the prisoners. Gujarat's ICT based Grievance Redressal System called SWAGAT has got the United Nation's Public Service Award. In addition, it has received eleven national awards for our various e-services.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Country, School, Awards, Ict, Broadband