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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Strong, Military, Bridges

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

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• 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

  Rights, Intellectual, Growth

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

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• 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

  Country, Numbers, Fundamentals

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• 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

  Country, School, Awards

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• 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

  Google, World, Advertisers

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

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Father

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• 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

  Past, Ubiquity, Two

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• 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

  Loss, Connections, Negative

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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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• 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

  Innovation, Environmental, Benefits

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