Universal Service Quotes

The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.

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

In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It's important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.

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

While the United States has never decreed that everyone has a 'right' to a telephone, we have come close to this with the notion of 'universal service' - the idea that telephone service (and electricity, and now broadband Internet) must be available, even in the most remote regions of the country.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.

Connectivity is a human right.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

To bring the benefits of the digital age to all Americans, the FCC needs to make it easier for companies to build and expand broadband networks. We need to reduce the cost of broadband deployment, and we need to eliminate unnecessary rules that slow down or deter deployment.

Increasingly, meeting the connectivity needs of all Americans - no matter where you live - means freeing up spectrum to meet the growing demand for wireless broadband.

Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

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.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Protecting the USPS means protecting the essential services it provides our nation.

Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access.

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.

The Postal Service exists to serve every American, regardless of where you live or what you believe.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change