ctia right now is neutral on that. is that something you think the industry should come out against as well even if it's on a hands-free device because of the cognitive distraction? >> guest: yeah. i think that one is a little more controversial. people think that provides a great value, so we've taken the position of letting the customer decide looking at all the relative information, being transparent about that and letting the customer make that decision. when it comes to texting, i think that's a very clear case that we don't want people to do that. >> host: if we could return to net neutrality for just a minute, i just want to ask with regard to the spectrum that at&t recently purchased, what would happen if that spectrum fell under net neutrality proposed rules? >> guest: well, that's a very interesting question and somewhat, you know, complex, but when we bid on the spectrum at the time of the 700 megahertz auction, there were two classes of spectrum, one that was the open access c block spectrum, and we purpose

this ctia is neutral on that. is that something you think the industry should come out against his will and say people shouldn't talk while driving even if it is on a hand-held device because of the cognitive distraction? >> guest: that one is of little more controversial. people think that provides a great value in some cases so i think we have taken the position of letting the customer decide, looking at all the relative information, being transparent about that in letting the customer make that decision. when it comes to texting i think that is a very clear case that that is way too much distraction we want people to do that. >> host: mr. de la vega of look at return to net neutrality for just a minute. does want to ask with regard to the spectrum that at&t recently purchased but what happened that spectrum fell under net neutrality proposed rules? >> guest: that is a very interesting question

i think you are seeing ctia and its member companies taking up that slack.t our young people texting and driving. >> we should just know that ralph de la vega is the incoming chairman of the ctia, which is the wireless association. >> at at&t, we have taken a policy that we do not want our employees driving an texting. it is best practices like that that we are encouraging all of the ctia companies to take up. we also enforce those policies with our own employees. we want to be able to walk the talk, and that is to say we have got to stop customers of doing that by setting the example. it is not safe for our young people. >> some said the group said people who have lost relative talk about its cognitive impact of talking while driving. is that something you think the industry should come out against as well, and say people should not talk all driving, even on a handsfree device, because of the cognitive destruction? >> that is a little more controversial. i think we have taken the position of letting the customer decide, looking at all the relevant informati

one of my goals for the incoming year for ctia is to reach out to all members of ctia to make sure that we focus on the things that unite us and other things that divide us. when you look at all the issues that we have in common for the good of the group and for the good of the industry. we have many more issues that unite us than divide us. so you're going to see me reach out to rural carriers are meant to new carriers, and make sure that we act as one ctia moving forward in addressing the key issues that are facing this industry, which is such a critical industry to the country. and so, you're going to see me be reaching out. already then so out to our members and asking us to be more united. i think the more united we are the more effective we are going to be able to operate. >> host: ralph de la vega president of at&t mobile. thank you for being our guest on the indicators. paul kirby has been our guest reporter. of congressional quarterly. a senate majority leader,.com and baucus spoke to reporters after democrats met with reporters tonight but they didn't say anything to the subst

ctia? fcc? anybody?can tell you is the spectrum that we have available to this industry today is used more efficiently than any other country of the world. >> yeah. i'm going to take that as a no. and i thank you for that. now do all ctia carriers operate at full capacity on their allotted spectrum today? >> no, sir. >> has fcc conducted any use age studies which examine whether the spectrum either by your members or anybody else is being properly and adequately used with regard to that spectrum which is assigned to them? >> i'm not aware of any. >> okay. so the argument seems to be here, i think, that you have enough spectrum for now, but we'll need it 10 years or some future time? is that correct? >> we have enough now. we'll need it before ten years. >> i agree with you. our problem is to see how we're going to get the spectrum efficiently allocated. if you remember from that time, we had a serious problem to the fact that the spectrum was just thrown out by the fcc and by the government to be sold by

to all ctia carriers operate a full spectrum today?o, sir. >> as the fcc conducted any usage studies which examine whether the spectrum either by your members or anybody else is being properly and adequately used with regard to that spectrum which is assigned to them? >> i am not aware of any. >> the argument seems to be that you have enough spectrum for now but will need to 10 years from now or at some future time, is that correct? >> we have enough spectrum for right now but we will need spectrum before 10 years. >> i thoroughly agree with you. our problem here is to see how we will get that spectrum officially allocated. you'll remember that we had a serious problem due to the fact that the spectrum was was going to be sold for budgetary reasons as opposed to addressing the proper use of the spectrum. to all witnesses, starting on your right and my left, how do you do h.r. 3125 and h.r. 3019? do you view it as, iii to the sec's alert -- do you view as complementary to the fcc's alert system? >> yes. >> yes, very much. >> the answer