Tom Wheeler: “I think that is a pretty good return on investment for America.”

We are stuck with the buggywhip era, the horse and buggy era of analog 9-1-1.

It is hard to understate the seriousness of something like this for two reasons. One, as has been pointed out, this is the people's money.

The benefits of IP networks are simply not being realized because for far too many Americans, Next Generation 911 networks don't exist.

We must be vigilant. What we have been doing, as I said before, is playing Whac-a-Mole on this.