Recently, GCI and Quintillion announced their partnership to bring broadband to Kotzebue and Nome businesses, schools and health clinics. It was stated they may be able to bring broadband to those residents by the end of the year. Some of you may be wondering if it will be affordable or why other communities on the fiber weren't included? After all, Quintillion fiber does land in those communities and if the goal is to serve rural Alaskans, why not add all those residents immediately The problem is that we spend a lot of money and we're expanding broadband at a snail's pace. Large fiber and microwave projects that extend into rural communities are primarily aimed at providing broadband to schools and health clinics, which are heavily subsidized by the federal government. These systems, when used for consumer broadband, result in the high prices that you see today.