the snowden revelations, nas, and germany saying, no thank you, verizon. >> people have not been able to pin point how much the contract was worth and whether or not it's the only one. >> who wins? that's interesting. deutsche telecom? >> all the european carriers will trumpet their ability. privacy the issue across the board whether it's facebook or google, we have to continue to think about this, what it means to the business models. >> more than privacy, isn't it? talking about setting their own internet structures, and the bulkization of the internet as a result. we don't want the americans to have this sort of access to what we do on a daily basis. >> broke right before the world cup game yesterday, u.s. versus

you may have noted one of the lead stories this morning, the german government is essentially saying bye-bye to verizon as one of the key suppliers of telecommunications and wireless services. because of the fallout from the edward snowden revelations and the nsa. this is not significant, but something to watch, will result in an incredible loss of business. investers are taking it in stride, but it came up a lot when we were in -- when i was reporting on whether at&t would make a move on vodafone, and one of the reasons it withdrew from the european market as a place to conceivably consolidate, come here for the direct jp tv deal, the snowden revelations, nas, and germany saying, no thank you, verizon. >> people have not been able to pin point how much the contract