was the uncertainty that fcc cured call originally caused by the fcc? -- was the uncertainty that the fcc cured originally caused by the fcc? was that unfair? >> i think reflected this in my opening statement. i think the rule is a fair middle ground. it is fair in comparison with the alternatives we were facing. >> i want to end up with mr. d ereggi. i appreciate your testimony. i see a segue to market principles as the best way to provide services to individuals. do you believe it is equable that these rules apply to you but not what companies? >> i find it to be a tragedy that they applied solely to us and not webb cos. >> do you agree with the letter we received from the cable folks the drawing these distinctions between broadband providers and with companies no longer makes sense? >> i would agree. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes miss matsui. >> i still have reservations regarding the process. there are too many unanswered questions that will lead to unintended consequences on the market. i strongly oppose

the fcc or the department of justice? guest: i would neutral. i do not think that this poses a threat to verizon. it does not pose a threat to their network, which is considered to be the best of the carriers. if you are verizon you are and a great position, actually, because you see your main rival, at&t faced with a lengthy and difficult regulation process that will occupy a lot of management time and attention. following that, they are going to have the difficult task of integrating of very large transaction like this and putting all of the pieces together and making the technology work, which is almost always more difficult than it sounds initially. and even once that is accomplished assuming the transaction goes through verizon now has one less competitor and particularly it has one less competitor that is a very cost competitive and innovative. so i think if i were representing verizon my advice would be to remain neutral with respect to this transaction . host: are there any issues regarding cdma technology with th

the measure disapproves of the fcc net neutrality ruling. the resolution must pass both houses of congress and be approved by president obama to overturn the fcc regulations. you can hear more from congressman walden on this matter later today on "the communicators." in his weekly radio and internet address, president obama recognizes women's history month by talking about the need for quality -- equality and opportunity for women. he urges passage of legislation that will stop pay disparities between men and women in the workplace. he is followed by the republican address with senate energy and natural resources ranking member. she discusses rising energy costs and the need for energy alternatives to reduce demand. >> march is women's history month. it is a time to celebrate the progress women have made. we also sold. the women throughout history who made the progress possible. one of inspiring american who comes to mind is eleanor roosevelt. in 1961, the former first lady was unhappy about the lack of women in government. she marched up to

second is looking at fcc process and reform. chairman genachowski has put in some reforms, and i'm not picking on this commission. i think over time there are issues that come to the fore, there are processes that have, people have had some criticism about how rule makings move forward at the commission. and surprising commissioners and big changes late at night, kind of what congress was doing for a while in this former chairman of the gop transmission. we tried to change that in our rules. the fact that no two commissioners can talk to each other about a policy issue is an issue they've raised with us, and there are members of both sides that say maybe that's something we ought to look at so they can actually talk to each other. and then, of course, there are issues related to the universal service fund. the fcc is working on some proposals on universal service reform, intercarrier compensation, all of those very technical issues, and we've got members in our subcommittee that have an interest in that. spectrum, who has it, wh

to turnover the fcc rulemaking on net neutrality. you used the congressional review act in overturning this. what was the purpose of that? >> guest: to pull. one, this is a very specific law that was passed in a bipartisan matter. senator reid in the senate helped get through back i think it was a 95 to just address regulations that have big consequences that the congress is wait a minute, we don't agree with you. and so the vantage frankly for those of us who seek to overturn this government regulation, the internet, is that using the congressional review act means that they can be brought up in the senate. it is a privileged motion. there are 40 senators that find it. it has to come to the floor and it is not subject to the filibuster. so, if you are where i'm sitting in want to do something about repealing a rule there is a shot clock that starts in 60 days. is accommodated way to count to 60 days described in batches but it gives you a real opportunity to move an issue forward and not get a roadblock in the senate on a filibuster

we had all the fcc commissioners before. if it is equally divided among the democrats and the republicans. at the conclusion of this hearing, there will have been two hearings. probably one of the first times in history of the committee, the minority has more witnesses on the topic and the majority. we're trying to hear from people. we're trying to be fair and balanced about this. we look for it your testimony when we resume. so i recessed the committee until after the prime minister. it is probably about an hour by the time members go and get back. it may be a little more. we can hang out, but not too far away. with that, the committee stands in recess. >> potential republican presidential contenders are making stops in key primary states. bachman in michele bock an minnesota. >> in the house today, members debated a bill that would eliminate the emergency mortgage relief program. this program subsidizes mortgage refinancing for certain homeowners who owe more on the house and it is worth. this is about 45 minutes. what pur

. >> host: well, a republican commissioner of the fcc, robert mcdowell, and the republican chairman of the energy and commerce committee, fred upton, have both said when it comes to retransmission that the government should not be regulating between broadcasters and cable television. do you agree with that? >> guest: well, i do, and i think the proof is that while there is the rare interruption, the truth of the matter is 99% of these negotiations are, are settled without interruption and on a market basis. and that works better than the government getting involved in trying to urge a mar outcome or -- a particular outcome or a particular price. government doesn't usually do that very well, so we think the proof is in the pudding, and it's working. it works for cable when they get paid for their content, it works for broadcasting as well, so what is broken shouldn't be fixed. >> host: is it helpful to your organization that the republicans took the house back in 2010? >> guest: you know, our issues are not republican and democrat. our issues are about the american people. the news, wea

the fcc believes it has those authorities. this is an agency of seeing his congressional authority and its action will hurt investment and cost jobs. small cable and internet provider in my district recently wrote to me about her concerns. "they invested billions of dollars of private capital to build broadband it infrastructure to 90% of american homes. commissioners are looking in the rearview mirror, attempting to regulate the internet of yesterday. how well companies be able to compete if we bear the brunt of the regulations while the giants go free. the internet is evolving. all members of the ecosystem need to work together to innovate. these efforts will cost jobs and dampen investment." this is not a partisan issue. in 2006, 50 democrats voted with us on the house floor to oppose the network neutrality for the legislation. some of the democrats are on the full committee. some are on the subcommittee. that was not a title to versus the title one approach. it was against the network neutrality rules. dr. david farber war

you used -- fcc ruling on net neutrality. you used a specific law for this. >> this was a law that was passed in a bipartisan manner in the senate back in 1995 to address regulations. the congress said, wait a minute. we do not agree with this. the advantage, frankly, for those of us who seek to overturn wreckage -- a return government regulation of the internet means that it can be put into effect. 40 senators have signed it. it has to come to the floor. it is not subject to the filibuster. if you are wanting to do something about repealing our role, the shot clock has started at 60 days. it gives you a real opportunity to move an issue forward and not get a road block in the senate on a filibuster. >> i will read you two things to get your response. these are from your colleagues on the democratic side of the committee. henry waxman, "republicans could not get a single major broadband for a brighter -- broadband provider to testify in support of the resolution. ." "to upset the applecart would be fooling around with somethi

i certainly would not want to destroy the fcc and create something else. but what is the right role for the federal communications commission, and what authority should it be operating under? >> what about international regulation, the world wide net? >> we do not do a particularly great job of international regulation of anything, from trafficking in human -- all that sort of stuff. i do not think people are comfortable with, for example, the un regulating the internet. a lot of all internet hands are pretty happy with the non- governmental organizations that have done it in the past, but i think there are real questions about whether or not they fail. if you said, what international agency would do this, the i.t. you? i think you would -- the itu? i think you would hear a collective groan. i think the industry needs to be proactive, because i do not think it is a reasonable position for them to think they can push of international regulation forever. they need to help people who do not want it to be organizations like the itu. give them ideas of somebody

i hear the fcc's say this will be a market and congress will allocate to broadcasters money to go out of business to be repackaged. my concern as a former legislator is that when you stack up these issues where you are pushing $33 billion on the table or more, i remember in a pay-go environment which is the budget environment across the street, spectrum auctions paid for everything. when you put billions on the table, there are a lot of claimants. where will the broadcasters fair? i said to those in broadcasting who may want to volunteer, make sure that the check clears before you let go of your spectrum. but is there any reason to think this might be different than some of the other options, some of which raised $20 million. >> we're talking about two potential different ones. one relates to public safety. we support that. dedicated or however the will of the congress, whether you sell it commercially and use those assets to build up the public safety network. that is one way to do it. the other way is to give it to public safety and then go to the other option where we get it. we th

so i think that's more an area for the fcc to be involved in than the doj. this is c-span communicators program. discussing the at&t-t-mobile usa deal, jeffrey silva of medley global advisors, and robert bell who practices antitrust law for which firm? >> case schuyler. >> how does it lead to the deal that is were blocked? there was a sprint and directv and echostar. >> directv, echo star was really a 2-1 transaction. it would have been a merger to monopoly. i think it was a fairly easy decision on the part of the department of justice to move to block it. the mci transaction i'm less familiar with. it's a long time ago. and i can't really dredge up the details. here you have a very close call, i think, because mergers like this do two things simultaneously. on one hand, they create a stronger competitor, one that has as we've been talking about more spectrum, a better ability to expand and into new technologies, better service for customers, and cost savings. on the other hand, a transaction like this has the ability to impose higher costs on consumers and

i think the fcc has a role to play in it. i was sort of not terribly comfortable with the original, for example, fcc rules on nondiscrimination largely because i didn't think they were ultimately enforcen, and i think they get you into a whole lot of ore problems about, you know -- other problems, you know, they beg more questions than the answer. is interconnection part of the access, can you regulate access without regulating interconnection? a whole bunch of other questions come up that i don't think we're in a good position politically or even technically, really, to sort of figure out how exactly we want to answer. so i think if you looked as those principles and you sort of said, okay, i'm not really sure what these mean, but i think i can tell you about egregious examples, everybody would say that violates these. are there plenty of examples of gray area close to these principles that i wouldn't know how to add adjudicate? yeah. the question is, are those problems we have to deal with right mow? i think the answer is,

i think the fcc has a role to play in it. i was sort of not terribly comfortable with the original, for example, fcc rules an nondiscrimination ultimately because i didn't think they were enforceable. they get you into other problems like, you know, they beg more questions than to answer. what's the service, what's the internet, you know, is interconnection part of the access? can you regulate access without regulating interconnection? a bunch of other questions come up that we're not in a good position politically or even technically sort of to figure out one answer, so i think if you looked at those principles and said, okay, i'm not sure what these mean, but i think i can tell you about egregious examples and everybody says that violates these. are there plenty of examples of gray area close to the principles i don't know how to adjudicate? yeah. the question is are those problems we have to deal with right now? i think the answer is no. >> dr. william lehr, the die ma'am irk -- dynamic of a house of representatives, what

making it essentially impossible for the fcc to enforce net neutrality rules.epublicans claim that the net neutrality is overregulating the internet. as you can imagine, democrats are not happy about this. we spoke with congresswoman who represents silicon valley. she says it's essential for high-tech innovation. >> the startups that have developed into successful economic enterprises in silicon valley would have just been crushed in their infancy if net neutrality had not been the rule of the land. >> even if the gop bill passes through the committee, it still has to pass the full house, the senate and get a signature from president obama who has said that he supports these new fcc rules so this is still a work in progress. even if it does not pass, the net neutrality rule still faces legal challenges from both verizon and metro pcs. they are currently suing to overturn them in federal court. that's the latest from silicon valley. back to you guys. >> the battle has just begun. okay, kcbs radio's matt bigler, thank you. >>> the time now 6:40. who wants to be a

. >> if you could redesign the fcc -- where would you start? >> i would start with spectrum policy. spectrum policy, which seems to be about spectrum, about how we manage spectrum -- i'm sorry -- >> you can just keep talking. >> it seems to be about -- spectrum seems to be about the retial engineering in the early 1930's and the way we managed spectrum was to say one and only one can broadcast on any given spectrum in any given locale because we have no way to manage interference. one little slice of spectrum that didn't matter was 2400 gigahertz, because it is the frequency of which one is the microwave frequency so they said fine, a garage door openers and microwave ovens, do what you like, and this one little spectrum is where wi-fi showed up which is plainly the most incredible change in the networking technology these last ten years. and if i could redesign the fcc i would make it clear that when the engineering changes, the regulatory apparatus changes as well. because we could get so much more value, so incredibly much more value out of the sec managers on our behalf if we ap

i would note that in recent fcc merger approvals that has involved broadband, the fcc has extracted concessions whereby their low-cost pricing tiers for broadband for a number of year. it may be that in this case to win approval at&t would have to make a similar concession. >> suarez: you heard jeffrey sill virginia bring up the possibility of improvements in service, in coverage, because that's been a blind spot for both these individual companies but perhaps as merged they have a more filled- in american map. is that a counterveiling value here? >> i don't believe so. at&t could take the $39 billion it wants to pay for t- mobile and improve its network right now. what they're doing is they're taking the easy way out. instead of taking all their money-- and they've got lots of it-- and putting it into improving their network, building out the spectrum they already have. they have a lot of spectrum they haven't built out yet, and improving their service they're instead buying off a competitor. let me talk about the prices that jeff talked about. he talked about how the g.a.o.did a study showing

we would be interested, as the fcc weighs the potential harm. that benefit would be codified in an order. the commitmenttment they have made would be codified. others would deal with addressing broadband problems. some kind of low-income subsidy. to expand broadband to the householsds on the digital divide. they don't have the capacity for the enormous benefits. >> the same question. >> i do not think they are any conditions to alleviate the harms that would come to the transaction. at & t has now show why it needs spectrum to reach out the goals of 95% of the broadband population. at & t has the spectrum. they have not invested or built this. so i don't think at & t can reach the t-mobile spectrum. they can do this without t- mobile. >> we are out of time. parul desai of the consumer's union. thank you for being on the communicators. we are goined by bob goodlatte. a member of the house judiciary committee. a member of the internet subcommittee. you will be holding hearings on this deal. what are you looking to find out. >> obviously two things

we had all the fcc commissioners before. if it is equally divided among the democrats and the republicans. at the conclusion of this hearing, there will have been two hearings. probably one of the first times in history of the committee, the minority has more witnesses on the topic and the majority. we're trying to hear from people. we're trying to be fair and balanced about this. we look for it your testimony when we resume. so i recessed the committee until after the prime minister. it is probably about an hour by the time members go and get back. it may be a little more. we can hang out, but not too far away. with that, the committee stands in recess. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] b>> thank you for being here. i believe we will just go left to right. we appreciate your willing to come in and testify. if you want to go ahead and start, we welcome you here. >> good afternoon. as a coordinator representing more than 800 groups, i appreciate th

. >> telecommunications report could you expand on the five-year fcc program with the enforcement power? >> it will have the enforcement power but the idea is to get it started is to somehow indicate to the public that these are the goals it will be self regulatory s sort of a broad sense and to allow this to move forward. many of us would like to see the ftc come up with the good housekeeping seal of approval so countries could abide by the regulations then could receive the good housekeeping seal that goes along way to give assurance and don't have to read the fine print. that is the idea. >> you had mentioned it is important consumers to decide how much is too much with information collection so does that require access requirements of they have an idea how much is being collected? >> and the bill the idea is to give the consumers the choice. i think in america we all have credit reports and access to the credit reports we cannot tell them to stop collecting and we cannot tell businesses they cannot stop collecting but certainly we should be able to see that information much like you

. >>> a cop depressional committee has voted to reverse the fcc's new net neutrality rules. the subcommittee on communications and technology voted along party lines to send the whole idea to the full house. the fcc rules prowho prohibit internet providers from deliberately slowing people's internet connections based on the data they download. now republicans don't like the rules. democrats say the rules keep the internet fair for everyone because everyone has equal access. both sides have fair points. neutrality means a start up in silicon valley has the same access to the internet as google or apple, but net neutrality rules put the u.s. government in charge of the internet and republicans say government should stay away. >>> thank you, scott. the time is 5:26. charms dropped. another suspect is excused in the deanza rap case. >>> and the latest scandal to rock the san francisco police department has criminals waking up free today. good morning, i'm marla tellez. we'll hear from one of them as he walked out of this jail a free man late last night coming up. >>> and the sex

many lamb the fcc outdated technology which is woefully behind the financial firms are using. many blame the problem which prevents coordination among the sec and the offices and other that has been cited as the sec workforce which some margin includes too many lawyers and not enough industry veterans. and we've all heard about the sec employees union pornography instead of doing their job. these are reasonable concerns and merit oversight from these two subcommittees. we've also heard about the potential conflict of interest from david becker, senior counsel with the fcc -- sec is my understanding that david copps is investigating the matter and i look forward to his report. just from the financial crisis since the great depression, we view the sec to do its job and do it well. the sec has watched its policeman and established by the 1934 securities exchange act to prevent fraud and abuse in the securities market, creating the sec was essential to restoring investor trusten the country's economic system. if the economic system is going to work so was the nobel laureate joseph

creation that i've seen that's come out of big mergers, but yes, of course, we need drk i mean, the fcc is weak at best. the law is very much on this side. we're almost afraid to go to the supreme court with anything because we don't want it codified that some of these actions are legal, and so we keep working around p them and lobbying and trying to do the best we can. i think as i said before, i don't mean to be a nay sayer, but i think we're in perilous times in terms of really hanging on to what those on the right talk about with the american dream and they don't really understand that that means freedom. >> ms. davis, i have to start off by thanking you for making it possible for young people like myself who want to get into journalism, particularly broadcast journalism if that's what we choose to do to have the opportunity to do it. i thank you for that. >> thank you. >> i was surprised to hear you say earlier it's difficult now to get into the industry than it was when you started out. i would have thought it would have been the opposite, but it seems as though for people my age

we have not found this fcc as friendly as we had hoped it would be.plus that, the way jobs are, are described today they're multitasking assignments. if you're working print, you're still taking pictures, and you're still doing video, and you're blogging and doing all kinds of things that reporters never had to do. if you're in television, you're shooting, you're editing, and you're reporting. you're doing all sorts of things that my generation never had to do. all these blogging opportunities, so the people in charge can feel the world is open, go start your own. that's what they say. if you have the skills and the ability. but we know that universeally if we are to exist as a unit, as a country we have to have reliable voices that we can trust, or how are you going to manage yourself? how are you going to manage the politics of your country if you have a right and a left press and you're left in the middle to try to figure out what's right, what's wrong? and as newspapers have closed down and gone to using the tools of the trade today, they have fou

if the fcc in the part of justice have to sign on it. they may turn it down.ives at&t to much power and control of the market. if this deal may not go through. if it does, it will take one year to be approved officially go through. in the immediate future, at&t in t mobile customer will see no change to their service. when and if this deal goes through its principal lot of questions that we don't know the answers to yet. it will improve reception and performance? the combination of these two networks, it should it should greatly improve both networks at the combine. that could be a good thing for at&t in t mobile customers. what about those cheap t mobile wireless lans? they offer much cheaper plan is then at&t in and verizon. it's likely these would go away. t mobile and at&t have set up a page on the web with facts about the merger with common questions and answers that consumers might have. to check this a lot of www.kron4.com and look for news links section. kate slate, kron 4 news. come >>vicki: another quick action on the alert in japan. were showing you

the justice department and the fcc could take a year or longer to review the proposalled transaction. >>> the stanford women played for a chance to return to final four. mark is up next to tell us if they made it. >>> the san jose city council could tighten up lease laws tomorrow night. a woman was injured when she was tangled by a dog leash. it would require leashes no longer than six feet on paths and sidewalks and call for fines of up to $200 for repeat offenders. >>> mark ibanez is here to the talk about sports. >> the stanford women is-- are the best thing in sports this year. not an eyebrow razor to see stanford in a fourth straight final four appearance. when the 27th in a row. even in spokane with their great homegrown product john stockton looking on. he has been working with courtney van der sloot. she had 18 straight at one point. 25 points all told. and stanford put the pedal down. the power move inside gets it to drop. what's new with her. 23 points and 11 rebounds and her freshman sister chiming in with 18 points and 15 rebounds. nice move there. they handle the hostile

the justice department and the fcc could take a year or longer to review >>> the san jose city council could tighten up lease laws tomorrow night. a woman was injured when she was tangled by a dog leash. it would require leashes no longer than six feet on paths and sidewalks and call for fines of up $200 for repeat offenders. >>> mark ibanez is here to the talk about sports. >> the stanford women is-- are the best thing in sports this year. not an eyebrow razor to see stanford in a fourth straight final four appearance. when the 27th in a row. even in spokane with their great homegrown product john stockton looking on. he has been working with courtney van der sloot. she had 18 straight at one point. 25 points all told. and stanford put the pedal down. the power move inside gets it to drop. what's new with her. 23 points and 11 rebounds and her freshman sister chiming in with 18 points and 15 rebounds. nice move there. they handle the hostile environment no problem. >> the way i take it, if they are not cheering for you they are cheering against you for a reason. gonzaga is a strong te

we would certainly be very interested that the fcc has they weigh the potential harm and see this enormous benefit that that benefit would be codified in an order so that the commitment that at&t has made which they have fulfilled in their past merger would be codified. there could be other kinds of commitments that have to do with addressing our broadband gaps for example, some kind of low income subsidy so that we can expand broadband to the hundred million households on the wrong side of the digital divide. something that would look at build out to our schools and our libraries which do not have the capacity that they need for all of those enormous benefit sos that our grandchildren and children will be able to benefit through the internet. >>>> parul? >> as i mentioned, i don't think there are any condition that is will alleviate the harms that will come out. at&t hasn't shown why it needs t-mobile assets and spectrum to build out and reach the goals of 95% of broadband to the population. 95% of the population. at&t has lots of spectrum, they have quality spectrum, like the 700 megaher

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it has not led to confidence in transparency and non biased behavior of the fcc when we look for the tail. how do we know the changes you're asking to be reviewed are going to clearly eliminate anything like this? where do we get the confidence of that? >> it is a fair question and you and i have had many conversations and i try to be transparent and upfront. we will be public, recommendations that he paid and what new councils on, recommendations she made and we will be happy to come back and talk to congress about what is in those recommendations and see if we can develop some metrics that will help us figure out if we are getting it right. >> your ethics counsel served under the general counsel career position and the the general council. would you consider moving that to the independent direct report so there would only be one person, political appointee like yourself that would be between public and ethics questions rather than having general counsel who had a number of jobs. you don't have to answer that today but i would like to consider that. so many different situations in t

wanted to play some of that interview for you but we, unfortunately, are subject to regulations of the fccso, in order to make it a little bit more palatable, we took the audio from the interview and combined it with video from the "smurfs." i think it works really well. >> you think you could ever allow me to hang out in that screening room and watch porn and [ bleep ] and watch your dad's movie with those air force dudes, like, i want to do that. >> you are welcome here any time. >> really? >> but i have to, you know, pull apocalypse off and put on lame porn. >> you banged tabitha stevens? >> like a thousand years ago when she was hot, sure. >> how was that? >> i don't know, i was loaded, dude. winning. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: so, howard will be here in minutes. but first, there was a new episode of "american idol" tonight. randy jackson lately, randy is now the mean judge. he's been telling some of the singers -- this is his criticism, he says, your performances seem like karaoke. and i agree. some of the karaoke singers do seem like they're doing karaoke on the karaoke compet

a panel voting to repeal fcc rules from permitting phone and cable companies interfering with networks. it could keep broadband providers from favoring internet content or certain companies. speaking of speed. a phone testing company says if you buy an iphone from verizon it will work as quickly. it did not notice a difference in speed when they tested the two phones. the company says, tests did show verizon's service slightly more reliable when it comes to dropped calls. silicone valley deal between neighbors to tell you about. net app will buy data storeage of lsi logic, $480 million. jessica, raj, speaking to the rise of video being sent and stored online. back to you. >> thank you very much, scott. remember that tag line from the movie "jaws" -- just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. according to scientists pretty safe now. researchers from uc davis and standford found there were 219 great white sharks between monterey and bodega bay. much smaller number than anyone expected. first time this kind of shark census has been conducted. sharks usually hang around nor

residents must include the word alert fcc along with their street name and zip code. >> big news, it may impact your morning coffee brew. your options might change because there is talk that coffee giants peet's coffee and starbucks could merge. today in the bay's christie smith is live with the latest on the stunning proposal. say it's not so. >> reporter: for a lot of people this is a defining moment in the morning. should go with peet's or starbucks. for most the decision is written in stone. it does not change. there is talk that the lines could be blurring with the potential sale of peet's to coffee giant sar bucks. a lot of jaws are dropping. emeryville-waysed peet's, starbucks is valued at over $26 billion. the ceo's of both companies aren't saying much but talk of a tie has been floating for quite a while. analysts say this isn't just about coffee shops but growing the grocery store business for peet's. we spoke with a starbucks drinker. would they cross over? >> probably. if it was close by and convenient. i would. but coffee is coffee to you? >> i don't drink coffee. i drin

we support that in the fcc. we think that's a good idea. i think you are going to start seeing areas like that could be addressed. >> there isn't a local service. and in the five-mile range, there isn't going to be a small local company. there isn't any kind of infrastructure, and no motivation in a five-mile range for anybody to do that. >> but there are two things that could happen with the capital fund. there are facilities that take the traffic from the local out. and there's building out of that that's being down. the part that you are talking about, the local, part of it could be a wireless model and phone company could get funds from the federal government where it can't be economic to do that. that's what it was designed to do was to take it the final mile where there's no economic capability to do that and get the places filled in. we do need to have the universe reform, not because we are supporting old networks and old approaches, because we need to get broadband built and it's not economic to do that. that reform is important if

recognized as it exists today the huge publicly held bank holding company which was sued for fraud by the fcc and find a half million dollars for the recent crass as well as 31 million to the u.k. financial service authority concerted and the company made a mistake in the regulatory disclosures about london. a grandfather would never have endorsed or participated in financial instruments which he didn't fully understand himself. as a small closely held partnership consisting largely of family members he would have shaken his head in amazement at today's multitude of partners and their salaries and bonuses which exceed the treasury of many foreign countries. however i think he would find it quite amusing simply gold mine although no goldman has worked since 1917 and it is unlikely that one ever will again. [applause] >> i would be very happy to have questions from the floor if you have some. yes, sir. >> i have it question, to parts. first are you familiar with the book [inaudible] and if so could you talk about how it related to respect we were very ordinary kids. we didn't go around flashing

it matched what the fcc gave for radio stations. they were licensed for 40 years so they gave nuclear plants licenses for 40 years. 20 years is thought to be roughly half of that. since we've never been in though territories we will go half of that and take a look after 60 years. >> like jim mentioned 23 identical plants in the u.s. to the mark one that is currently having the issues in japan right now. 105 total nuclear plants here in the united states. now their cooling system and backup batteries basically ran out and that is why they are having the problem that they are having out there is that a system an aspect of the system here in the united states that needs to be looked at to make sure something like that doesn't happen here? >> when japan, the batteries were sized to last for eight hours and that wasn't enough. only 11 reactors in the united states are sized for eight hours. 93 of our reactors have 43-hour bastry capacity. it wasn't enough in japan and we have roughly half of that and not likely in ours we would fare bett

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