in your recent speech, you talked about perhaps subsidies for broadband a la foodstamps. could you reconcile those? >> sure. let's start by saying the investment in this case is huge. our company alone has been investing at the rate of $17 billion a year for the last several years. when you look at that, contrasting it to other american companies, it is much greater than any other american company but at&t. a few years we have been ahead, a few years they have. the rest of the industry is investing huge amounts of money in infrastructure. the >> plant -- the broad been planned -- broadband plan was are in for sure to improve to match the demand that will come into the marketplace. -- once our infrastructure to improve to match the demand that will come to the marketplace. part of creating the climate is having a government policy that makes sense. you want policy that ensures the consumers feel comfortable in the space. that is part of encouraging investment. you also want the policy, however, that moves with the marketplace and technology, which is what i was trying to d