to my right is evan fienman, director, broadband, equity access deployment better known as the bead programext to him is carl guardino, vice president government affairs and policy at torona and then alana dish and then director u.s. public policy at amazon. thank you all for being here today to talk about thisimporta. it's a pleasure to be on the panel with you. so to get us started i thought it would be helpful for each of our panelists to talk about what their respective company and product and services and offerings and their innovative technologies can be viewed asd long-term solutions for solving the digital divide. carl, would you like to kick us off? >> thank you, it's really an honor to be here and i just want to start with thank you to evan and team at ntia and the federal program officers who i think are just doing job to make this work with our state broadband and stakeholders. appreciate it. it's two words you probably don't hear enough. thank you. >> there are other words we hear more frequently. >> but not in polite company and thank you. i would love to answer your question