going towards traditional telephone services and broadband and do you see the need for increasing the usf? >> we need the universal, they are critical to reach an objective spirited fight no means it is it the only tool that will get it to ubiquitous been deployed in the country and obviously private-sector investment is a locomotive in this economy and always has been and always will be. but universal service fund can play i think eight mightily important role in supporting that. it is necessary to modify that funding and make it primarily a broadband fund. we still have some challenges as you know and the invoice and some places indian country and other places like that where we are lucky if you have two-thirds of the folks we even have behalf service, so we can't get out of that business but by and large we need to transform it into the infrastructure in the future and universal service has a role to play in that and by a understand about the contribution factors and all of that, people get nervous and i get nervous, too but it's generally not going to get done on the cheek and by not

going toward traditional telephone services and broadband, and do you see a need for an increase in the usf? >> guest: yeah. we need to use universal service, it's a critical tool to help us reach our objectives. by no means is it the only tool that's going to get broadband ubiquitously deploy inside this country. obviously, private investment is the lead locomotive, but the universal service fund can play, i think, a mightily important role in the supporting that. it is necessary to modify that fund and make it primarily a broadband fund. we still have some challenges, as you know, in voice and some areas in the country where you're lucky if you have two-thirds of folks even have voice service. so we can't get out of that bid, but by and large we need to transform it into the infrastructure of the future, and universal service has a role to play in that. i understand about contribution factors and all that, and people get nest, and i get nervous, too, but this job's not going to get done on the cheap, and i'm not into making promises that we're going to hold the universal service fund at s