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" Throughout the history of communications, we've seen that the country that sets the pace in rolling out each new generation of wireless technology gains an economic edge. "
Ajit Pai
Technology
Edge
Generation
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" Whether you live in a big city or a small town, a call placed by a loved one, friend, or customer should go through. "
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" Some claim that the Obama FCC's regulations are necessary to protect Internet openness. History proves this assertion false. We had a free and open Internet prior to 2015, and we will have a free and open Internet once these regulations are repealed. "
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" Beginning in the Clinton administration, there was, for nearly two decades, a broad bipartisan consensus that the best Internet policy was light-touch regulation - rules that promoted competition and kept the Internet 'unfettered by federal or state regulation.' Under this policy, a free and open Internet flourished. "
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" It's vital that low-income Americans have access to communications services, including broadband Internet, which Lifeline helps to achieve. "
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" Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities. "
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" Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria each caused billions of dollars in damage, claimed the lives of many Americans, and disrupted millions more. They also reminded us how important communications networks can be during emergencies - and that the FCC has a role to play in helping keep people safe. "
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" Next-generation networks are hard to build. It takes a lot of money and effort to lay fiber, install wireless infrastructure, build satellite earth stations, and more. It also requires a reasonably certain business case for deployment, which is all too often hard to prove in parts of the country with sparse population and/or lower incomes. "
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" I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes. "
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" As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud. "
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" Whether it's police officers, firefighters, first responders, or 911 dispatchers, many dedicated Americans work long hours, and often in difficult conditions, to make sure that when someone's in need, they can help. "
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" The United States needs modern, flexible, light-touch network regulation, not a one-size-fits-all utility model from the 1930s. "
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Modern
United
" I'm not an IT expert myself. "
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" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "
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" In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear. "
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" Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from. "
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" The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter. "
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" You may never need them, but if you do, they'll be there. It's that bedrock promise of protection that makes our public safety officials the unsung heroes that they are. "
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" Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use. "
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" Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will continue to be an American success story. "
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" The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal. "
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" Imagine a world where everything that can be connected will be connected - where driverless cars talk to smart transportation networks and where wireless sensors can monitor your health and transmit data to your doctor. That's a snapshot of what the 5G world will look like. "
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