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Minute to explain. Everyone will probably remember that mitt romney promised in 2012 that the first thing hewas going to do on his first day of in office was to defund obamacare. But maybe you dont remember what he said, the second thing he was going to do. He was going to defund both the national endowment, that was the second thing was going to do on his first day in office. These endowments are in the sights of the republicans because they would like to get rid of them. Mister chairman, this is a good amendment but the one thing thats missing is a sentence calling for increase in the fundin...

All of our infrastructure is wireline based. So that has been a good thing in the context of throughput for broadband speeds because you are not paying for data bits based on usage. We just acquired three Additional Properties in florida and california and texas where we bought some of the fios assets from verizon and we have lightningfast speeds with lots of content and choice for consumers. Host how big is frontier . Guest we are the fourth largest teleco. I think a tshgt t and verizon a am not saying them in order then century link and then us. We are the eighth largest provider of video co...

Guest we created a digital freeforall in that bill where every company could do anything. That telescoped the time frame that it took in order to deploy fiber all across our country to create the capacity so that all of these new companies could get created so that words like google and hulu and youtube are are part of the culture today. But they were impossible to be created before the act. So we got a lot right. Nothing is perfect. But one thing we did do was we moved not only our own country, but the world from analog to digital. And if youre living in india or china, youre now using the wo...

We got a lot right, nothing is perfect. But one thing we did do was move not only our own country but the world from analog to digital. If you living in india or china in a using the words that were created including twitter or facebook that would not be possible without that bill. What we got right is, we worked together. Fortunately, we had a very strong friendship prior to that, as he did to other members of the committee. I think we asked the right questions. I think it was our sincere desire to get this right. The last major piece of telecommunication legislation somed in 1934 when you ha...

Auction task force. Mr. Epstein, what does that mean . Guest thank you, peter. Im happy to be here. I am the head of the task force at the fcc which is responsible for implementing the incentive auction which is a firsttimeever auction at the fcc for spectrum. Host and the incentive auction is the auction, the spectrum auctions involving the broadcasters, correct . Guest indeed, it is. It is whats called a twosided auction which for the very first time will acquire spectrum from broadcasters in a socalled reverse auction and then turn around, repackage it and make it available to the wireless...