Political Quotes

“Madam President, I am working with the managers of the bill to try to address concerns they might have on an amendment I have filed at the desk and hope to get accepted. But I wish to speak to it now, if I might. Essentially, the amendment is just a sense of Congress regarding the Federal Government's use of spectrum, and, in particular, spectrum use of the Department of Defense. Spectrum is a very important resource to the Department of Defense, and it is a very important resource to the private sector. Unfortunately, spectrum is becoming a scarcer and scarcer resource, and it is increasingly necessary for there to be better and more efficient management of this scarce resource. Demand for spectrum is sharply rising due to the growing advanced network of communication devices that rely on spectrum to transmit and receive information. The rise of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, the iPhone and iPad over the past few years, are the reason for this sharp rise in demand for spectrum. According to a recent study by Cisco, last year's mobile data traffic was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. The Cisco study predicts that global mobile data traffic will increase eighteenfold between 2011 and 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 78 percent, reaching 10.8 exabytes per month by 2016. The rise in the smart phone and the tablet has contributed significantly to our Nation's economy.…”