Brian Roberts Quotes

Broadband is not a luxury; it's critical infrastructure.

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.

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

Broadband access is important for everyone, for telemedicine, for telehealth, for communicating.

Broadband Internet access service is inherently an interstate service, and that is not a determination that just the FCC has made.

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.

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

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

We feel there is already widespread broadband available today.

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

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.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

We have radio and TV in every single part of Mexico. And in every one of the 185,000 schools of Mexico there is an electronic blackboard connected to the Internet—every school.

High-Speed Internet is not only slower in New York City and San Francisco than in Seoul; it also costs five times as much.

Access to reliable Internet is a necessity, whether it's for school, work, or staying connected with family and friends.

It's vital that low-income Americans have access to communications services, including broadband Internet, which Lifeline helps to achieve.

The bottom line is this: I want America to be at the forefront of innovation in the broadcast sector, the wireless sector, and every other sector of the communications industry.

I know how important it is to have affordable and reliable access to cell and Internet services.

The FCC has been hard at work doing what we can to help close the digital divide.

Broadband, wireless, and technology services have become a vibrant sector of our national economy with the potential to both empower and invest in our communities.

In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.