Broadband access to the Internet is a critical conduit that is essential for modern life,
Through its actions today, the Commission creates a national standard by which it can ensure that broadband internet service is treated as an essential service,
Public utilities are notorious for chronic underinvestment and glacial innovation. The FCC’s action uses our nation’s aging utilities and crumbling infrastructure as the model for today’s internet,
The value is so great that we cannot wait for the flood to arrive before we start to build the levee,
The last FCC threw this authority away and decided broadband needed no supervision,
The internet in America has thrived in the absence of 1930s command-and-control regulation by the government,
The action we take here is good for consumers, public safety, national security and network investment,
These 400-plus pages of relentless regulation are proof positive that old orthodoxies die hard,
The FCC has identified no gap in national security,
It is time to have broadband oversight, national net neutrality rules and policies that ensure the internet is fast, open, and fair,
I think in a modern digital economy we should have a national net neutrality policy and make clear the nation’s expert on communications has the ability to act when it comes to broadband.”
But it is important to understand that our actions did not extend to broadband, thanks to the work of the last FCC,
Every consumer deserves internet access that is fast, open and fair,
This is a nonissue for broadband consumers, who have enjoyed an open internet for decades,
In our post-pandemic world, we know that broadband is a necessity, not a luxury,