Broadband Quotes

• 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

  Home, Technology, Order

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• 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

  Internet Access, Cities, Ubiquity

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• 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

  Smart, Government, People

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

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

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Connections, Skype, Internet

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

  Julius Genachowski

  Excited, Get Real, Can Do

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• 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

  Dream, Fields, Tools

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

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• 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

  Years, Quality, Needs

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

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• 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

  Real, World, Eras

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• 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

  Powerful, Work, Phones

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• 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

  Winning, Technology, Government

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• 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

  Powerful, People, Connections

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• 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

  Country, Competition, Serious

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• 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

  Food, Phones, Two

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

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Government, Laying Down

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

  John Sununu

  Voice, Matter, Standards

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• 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

  Communication, Home, Phones

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

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• 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

  Sorry, People, Memorial

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• 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

  Deployment, May, Aids

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• 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

  Art, Educational, Community

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• 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

  Two, People, Use

  “Software Will Eat The World” by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, Vision, Strategy

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• 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

  Communication, Space, World

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• 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

  Ideas, People, World

  "Wikipedia comes out as a book" by Grainger Laffan, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2006.

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• 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

  Jobs, Reality, Europe

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• 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

  Country, Strong, Men

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

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