we're also joined by kim hart, senior technology reporter for "politico." here here to discuss several telecommunications issues confronting vise season and the wireless world, and we'll begin the questioning with kim hart. >> host: hi, mr. tauke, thanks for being here. so on thursday, the fcc had a significant vote on reforming the universal service fund. that's a mouthful and even more complicated to follow. i wanted to get your opinion on how you thought it all turned out after so many months of lobbying and so many years of talking about needing to do this. how do you think it all turned out? >> guest: it's almost decades of talking about this, and i think, first of all, the chairman and the commissioners deserve credit for taking on this issue, tackling it and getting it done. it's a big issue, very complex. and, essentially, we had system of subsidies under the old telephony world that continued as the old telephony world has died away. and the subsidies were, in many cases, being abused, they weren't targeted in a way that was helpful to consumers, s

our guest reporter, from politico, kim hart. >> a wanted to shift the discussion to spectrum issues. as we know, the super committee is right now trying to figure out its recommendation for deficit reduction, and spectrum auctions could be part of that recommendation. it how do you think the super committee will handle whether to include at the spectrum auction or allow that to go through the regular congressional process? >> i think the odds are that the super committee, as it comes up with recommendations, if it comes up with recommendations for congress on deficit reduction it will include a proposal relating to auctions of spectrum. they are scrambling to find the money, and there are not many places to find money for the treasury without raising taxes. i think they will grab on to this and included in the deficit reduction package that comes forth from that committee. this is a good thing, from our perspective, because it is important that more spectrum be made available. the yankee group just did a study not long ago that said by 2015 the capacity of wireless networks would hav

. >> hi, kim hart with "politico". the lifeline mentioned by the commissioners as a an important next step. any idea when that's taken up? >> well, i mentioned today i asked the bureau to gear it up for action this calendar year. that's the goal. we have to work within the resources that we have, but as you've seen, we have not been waiting on that to tackle adoption. we've had announcements in the past few weeks of adoption that are very significant, that are moving the needle, and it's important to understand that lifeline will be part of the solution on broadband adoption. it can't be the whole solution what we're looking at is investing in broadband pilot projects to develop ways to determine the most effective ways to close the gap on broadband adoption by using that program. >> hi, "the hill. " there was a lot of talk about anticipating on the future commission needs of the american consumers. given that, doesn't it make sense for wireless or mobile to constitute a larger proportion of the u.s. endeavor? >> well,