It’s only through that virtuous cycle that we can proceed.” “But it’s only with an open and free Internet that we can develop the applications like Skype that have caused people to want to pay for faster, better, more reliable Internet.
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“The focus has been on how to make sure access providers can continue to provide access to more people,” Silverman said Monday while speaking at the Brookings Institution. Now that regulators in Washington are paying attention to the role broadband will play in the nation’s economic recovery, Skype plans to be active in those discussions.
Private investors have agreed to pay $1.9 billion for the service, which was acquired by eBay four years ago. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is also crafting a plan to expand broadband service to underserved regions.īoth issues are key to Skype’s survival as it prepares to become an independent company. The nation’s top communications regulator on Monday proposed new rules that would force Internet and wireless companies to treat all Web traffic equally, a principle known as net neutrality. Silverman is chief executive of Skype, the popular service that allows free or cheap international calls over the Internet, and telecommunications policymakers are going to be seeing more of him in the months to come. But first, companies like his need to be free toĬreate the services people will want to use. Josh Silverman says his company helps drive the adoption of high-speed
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