that brings us indeed to craig sullivan, and he is the senior vice president for public policy and governmentffairs at verizon. with that, welcome, distinguished panelists. to be throwingng questions at the panel. not necessarily going to have to answer all of the questions. if you want to say something, you can let me know. for many of them, i will certainly welcome comments from all of them. the first question i am going to ask, and this will test and demonstrate my resolve to remain in control of the panel. the naturalow tendency. i have been there myself. here is the question. from the perspective of your company or association, what should be the single most important priority for the commission, with the emphasis on single most? i'm going to start with rebecca. just go right down the row on this, and just, you know, take just a minute or two. rebecca? all ofk you for inviting us here to have this conversation. i do think conversations are important. i'm going to answer that quickly with a very short historical story that was triggered by an event a couple months ago where the digital pi

bolster the legal case concerning what 706 meant if it were challenged in court by people like craig sullivan over here. so i want to throw that out because as i read the decision at least, it seems like there's been a complete decoupling of the finding requirement from the determination about the commission's authority that is a little bit puzzling to me. so, steve, why don't you go first and then the if anyone -- and then if anyone wants to comment that might resolve this question in my mind, i'd welcome that as well. >> let me say, first of all be, that 90% of consumers in this country today have access to three or more wireless carriers for wireless broadband. 98% of all consumers in the united states have access to at least two wireless providers for wireless broadband. so the fact is that healthy competition is taking place, and consumers have a lot of choices when it comes to broadband. but what i wanted to say about the whole net neutrality debate that really came up six, maybe seven years ago is that i was in congress for eight years. i've been at ctia for over ten years, and i have