40% of americans are now landline less. they don't have a landline, they just have cell phones. >> guest: even at the heart of the storm, our wireless network was operating at 94% capacity. we argued back to full capacity pre-store. so i think that many people, not just through the telecommunications, but with the power outage, learned and found out the electricity is very important along with telecommunications. i think it's a reminder for many of our customers that good wireline service is very helpful. because they can help offset each other. >> host: the so-called triple play packages offered by bryson and others, do they have the same reliability as the old-style telephones for the copper wires and etc.? >> guest: i think there is a little bit of a difference, but by and large, we have seen that fiber is more resilient than copper. it will impact fios, so there can be emergency calling. going back to your other point, there is a crossover with wireless usage. the ability to make an emergency caller reached a loved one.

guttman-mccabe, a lot of people have kept landlines for emergencies. it appears right now that it looks like wireless phones were more reliable than the fiber- optic, the non copper wire lines. >> sure. the reality is, we are talking a storm of almost biblical proportions. it had an impact on the wireline and it works. also had an impact on the subways, all transportation and bridges and tunnels. the reality is, this was something that caused some serious impact on infrastructure. the wireless networks performed pretty well. part of that is the efforts by the carriers in advance of the storm to preposition materials, to make sure that they had backed up supplies in place, and wherever possible, they do have backup power. in instances where they could, they brought in satellite trucks to use satellite to back call the information, -- back haul the information, using generators, using batteries to keep the network up and running. >> about emergency communications? >> from our perspective, the public safety ports, very few of them went down. they had a ni

and of people who have landline telephones, about 30% of them have cable telephones. so there is competition out there, and in terms of the internet, 4g is coming in and there is various predictions about what will happen with internet capability. i would predict and 10, 15 years and majority of the use of the internet will be over mobile phones and cell phones through the world. >> i would actually expand that. >> excuse me? >> if you expand that to wireless devices, not limited to sell funds. >> that is what i mean, yes. tablets, you name it, exactly. >> i think the really important point about your question is the mindset of the world well into the mid 1990's was that wireline access, with stuff either on poles were buried in the ground was the key to understanding telecommunications. the intriguing part about the wireless story is how very few people inside the industry -- that is why the mackenzie report came out the way it did -- it was not just judge greene and the fcc who did not understand the potential of wireless. it was the entire industry, except a few vi

have never done one of these things, a, write a check, b, write a letter, or, c, use a traditional landline phone. >> facebook friend terry moen wrote it should be all three, teens aren't taught to really write anymore and the cell phone and iphone have made landlines a thing of the past and checks, debit cards are the thing, but i'll take a, if they can't write a letter, how can they write a check? >> remember, it's only 26% there. log onto our facebook fan page and leave your response. we'll have your answer in about an hour. >>> so have you made up your mind yet which candidates you're going to support at the polls today? >> we'll talk to a few of the undecided who could influence the outcome in northern virginia coming up. we'll be right back. good morning, it's 5:47 on this tuesday morning. how are you doing? have you voted? howard says the weather won't be a problem. >> no. just a little chilly out there. so bundle up for that. >> hot cocoa. >> gloves. >> yeah. it is chilly out there. 20s and 30s. in fact, i just got offline with steve from crosstown, virginia, that's north of winches

a lot of the still have landlines. we have to look the best means and the best way and the timetables in terms of deployment of getting that spectrum to market. spectrum sharing, looking at what the federal -- within the federal coffers, so to speak, in terms of spectrum. all of it is in play. it is and all of the above strategy to get this to market. dynamic spectral small sales, you hear a lot about that. all of these, we are looking at how we can be more efficient and getting spectrum to market both long-term and short-term. >> in the summer, there was a report that said that sharing federal government agencies should be the norm. the administration to get those agencies to identify 1,000 megahertz of spectrum to share. wireless carriers say hold it. first we should be a signing spectrum for exclusive use, not sharing. what would you say to them? >> i would say again that everything needs to be on the table. there should be a rigid -- not be a rigid timetable in terms of whether this should go first or there should

but if you actually look, the latest government statistics are 32% of the people don't even have landline telephones anymore. they use cell phones. the competition out there, in terms of the internet. 4-g is coming in. i would be willing to predict that in 10 or 15 years, the majority of youth on the internet will be over mobile phones and cell phones throughout the world. >> host: if you expand that to wireless devices so you don't limit it to cell phones -- >> guest: that's what i mean. tablets, you name it, exactly. >> host: i think the really important point about your question is that the mindset of the world well into the mid-1990s was that wireline access was stuck on poles or buried in the ground was the key to understanding competition in telecommunications. the intriguing part of the wireless story is how very few people inside the industry -- that that is why the mckenzie mckinsey report listed, it wasn't just judge green and the fcc who did not understand the potential of wireless. it was the entire industry, except for a few visionaries that were regarded as kooks. so what tu

spend more money, about $22 billion a year for the next three years, upgrading its wireless and landline networks. a.t.&t. hopes the investments will lead to higher revenue growth. it also raised its quarterly dividend, but that didn't help stem today's stock loss. another key apple partner, semiconductor maker qualcomm was in focus after the closing bell. fiscal fourth quarter earnings were stronger than expected thanks to more demand for smart- phones including its technology. its outlook was stronger than expected too. after closing down 3.7% to $58.12 per share during the regular session, they rebounded to $63 in extended hours trading. as investor attention turn toward the fiscal cliff combination of tax hikes and government spending cuts, they were looking for safety in government i.o.u.'s. the interest rate on the 10 year benchmark government bond dropped to 1.63%, it's lowest since early october. as this yield falls, the price of the bond rises. all five most actively traded exchange traded products suffered losses. the financial sector fund fared the worst, down 3.3%. and that's

we don't use them we reach people who abandon a landline through on-line. my sons to not even a you can talk on the cellphone. they think it is for texting and twitter. five years there will be no more phone polls. john: you ay the internet but that is a select group of they may not respond. >> we don't know. we're back to the 1930's experimenting. we will do some polls, internal experiments using entirely different techniques to measure up against the election result to see how well we do. john: with 2000 bush you were way off. 5% higher. >> we missed we showed the president winning by more than he did. we went back and compare what you found to the results and learn from them. by 2004 we were within half a percentage point* per kaltbaum of be predicted 52/ 56 -46 but it was 53. john: i was looking for stuff to confront him and those were the only examples . >> we make mistakes that is part of the process. one out a 20 both the off more than a margin of error that is what you look at a variety and look for the common ground. john: i would say to heck with

is it, a, write a check, b, write a letter, or c, use a traditional landline phone. >> log onto the wusa9 facebook fan page and leave your response. we'll reveal the answer during the 6:00 hour. >>> four weather first on this tuesday morning. it's a cold one out there, twebilitys and 30s. couple of clouds now, but generally a sunny and cool day. winds five, maybe 10 miles an hour. we'll see highs struggling to get near the 50-degree mark. i'll be back talking about that nor'easter in just a few minutes. right now here's monica with time saver traffic. >>reporter: the story this morning is the accident south of 66 on balls ford road at the prince william parkway. that intersection is shut down here on the northbound side of i-95, things look good in springfield. i'll have more in traffic coming up at 5:01. mike and andrea. >> thanks, monica. >>> we all know that voting is a time-honored tradition. >> what will voting look like with the trend of technology? we have a look at the future of voting. >>reporter: in this era of mobile devices and cloud computing, voting is a rare holdout, which

we don't use them we reach people who abandon a landline through on-line.my sons to not even a you can talk on the cellphone. they think it is for texting and twitter. five years there will be no more phone polls. john: you say the internet but that is a select group of they may not respond. >> we don't know. we're back to the 1930's experimenting. we will do some polls, internal experiments using entirely different techniques to measure up against the eleion result to see how well we do. john: with 2000 bush you were way off. 5% higher. >> we missed we showed the president winning by more than he did. we went back and compare what you found to the results and learn from them. by 2004 we were within half a percentage point* per kaltbaum of be predicted 52/ 56 -- 46 but it was 53. john: i was looking for stuff to confront him and those were the only examples . >> we make mistakes that is part of the process. one out a 20 both the off more than a margin of error that is what you look at a variety and look for the common ground. john: i would say toheck with y

stacy lawrence and hundreds of her neighbors have struggled without heat, without power, without landlinene service. >> the staircase is dark. it's just scary. every day i'm coming down the step i'm afraid i might see a dead body somewhere. it's horrendous. >> reporter: we're inside the ocean individual apartment bu d community, building three. we walked through the doors. the first thing that hits you is the smell before we looked through the doors. we've been told there's garbage in and around the hallways because some people can't get to tin sin rater, don't want go to incinera incinerator. as kro the stre across the street the flood flooded this woman's apartment. she slept in the cold for 15 days without power. >> me and my daughter have to sleep with our coats on and five pairs of socks and ten covers on top of us. >> reporter: she suffered the same as her neighbors but she was optimistic at least for the sake of her 17-year-old daughter. >> we're going have help soon and everything's going to be all right. >> reporter: was there a moment you didn't believe that and you were just te

pollsters still make calls to landlines. campaigns still produce advertising for campaign.way to go in how to fully utilize social media to campaign and reform. stay tune as we continue advocating for campaign reform as we find new less costly and more transparent ways to elect our presidents in time for 2016. have a great night and follow our conversation on facebook twitter and google-plus. [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. are you in good hands? what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone is ready with the know-how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male announcer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu/knowhow. ♪ ♪ [ forsythe ] we don't just come up here for the view up in alaska. it's the cleanest, clearest water. we fi

even if you're calling both cell phones and land landlines first you have to get that mix right.a tricky business. if you do that, because of the nature of who responds when the phone rings you're going to have not enough--too many white citizens not enough younger too many who are well educated, and you need to bring that into line with what we know from the census of what the population looks like. >> eliot: if you do your 1200 phone calls and suddenly 900 of them are male, you say wait a minute this is not the way the public looks. there way you have to overweight the female sample and underweight the male sample, and the moment you do that you're making assumptions about what the larger public looks liker and that's where there are kinks in the joints. >> sure, there are hard and fast statistics on what the mix should be, but with voters we never know for certain. we have some guidance from history, but what i think ends up happening in most polls, one way or another there is adjustment, there is subjective adjustment about that mix. either directly. either the pollsters sayi

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never done one of these things, is it, a, write a check, b, write a letter, or, c, use a traditional landline phone. one of our facebook friends thinks the answer is a, write a check. checks have gone by the way of the typewriter, she says. the answer is a, write a check, 26% of teens have never done that. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. 6:54, your weather first. we've got a few clouds out there right now, but overrule overall today a sunny day. -- overall a sunny day. get started early. mike or andrea, go ahead. >> thanks, howard. >>> here's a check of the news before we go at 6:54. voters in maryland will be voting on several things, ballot initiatives, gay marriage is one of them, the dream act ballot initiative 2. if that passes, undocumented immigrants will be allowed to pay in-state tuition at community colleges. also there's question 7 that talks about a casino in prince george's county and table games at five other gambling venues. >>> two former governors, democrat tim kaine and republican george allen are battling it out for the seat senator jim webb is vacating. the outcome

polling procedures are developed in a nation that had landline telephones and a population that answer the phone. we do not live in such a nation anymore. peter researchers found 9% of calls resulted in a complete interview. in 1997 was 37%. is the representative of the larger public, we are not sure. the exit poll intake has not been representative of the general public. there are questions to be asked in things to be learn further. on predictions, it is -- i think there are a lot of predictions out there. where are the eight targets it's going? if they have done differently, you would have seen different result. the electoral college, as i say, what looks like a landslide is not a landslide in popular votes. in 2000 a barack obama got 53% of the vote. that is regarded as a solid win but not a landslide. you get a landslide of electoral votes usually when you do that. >> i do not break edge anything that michael or dick morris said about any election. anybody who does this knows how hard it is to do. i agree with michael that anything between the range he talked about was entirely rea

they said, listen, this is going to be a significant impact on the fourth quarter, both from the landlineess and the cell phone business as well. we don't know how big. they didn't quantify significant. you look at the stock, it's only down a percent. in the same regulatory filing, they said they're going to save $500 million from new union deals they just made. so maybe the market balancing those two things out. >> all right. thank you so much. so should you buy verizon on this weakness or look at at&t? maybe both are bad bets right now. on the heels of that, we do "talking numbers." looking at the technicals with ennis tanner with riskreversal.com. on the fundamental side, david burkes. he joins us from louisville, kentucky. good to have you on the program. david, let me kick this off with you. who -- to what extent will this impact verizon? >> good afternoon, maria. we like them both. while i think both companies will be impacted in their fourth quarter results, we think both companies look attractive for three reasons. they both offer attractive dividend yields. they're both experienc

been degraded somewhat because polling procedures were built up in a nation where we have universal landlineand population that answer the phone. we no longer live in such a nation. pollsters and both parties and non-partisan pollsters are concerned. pew has completed interviews on 9% of the calls a initiated in 2011. we don't know. >> megyn: that is fascinating stuff. are you ready? time to compare plans and see what's new. you don't have to make changes, but it's good to look. maybe you can find better coverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. ♪ medicare open enrollment. now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare. ♪ >>. >> megyn: fox news alert. back and forth between the presidential candidates. governor romney making a new reference to president obama's controversial comment that his supporters should get out and voted out of, quote, revenge. brand-new hour of america live. less than 48 hours to go before people vote. i'm megyn kelly. at this moment both presidential candidates are in middle of all out dash. gov

host: jason says they do not sample anyone without a landline phone. guest: not true. host: on the republican line, welcome to "washington journal." caller: i would like to bring your attention to the scott walker election. the national media and the polls all had him losing and yet he won fame. if you take that into consideration -- the polls and the way they poll, these polls are just no good with a fall on side a or side b. americans like to be treated fairly. they do not like to see somebody not being treated fairly. host: thank you. we will get a response. guest: we did a lot of work in the walker recall last year. we had it exactly on the margin was walker winning. there are outliers or things that happen. more often than not, polling is still accurate. we make sure we are calling cell phones and we are getting people who are going to come out to vote. i believe the polling is an accurate science. host: the president concluded his stay in virginia. he begins his day in new hampshire and heads to florida and back to ohio and colorado. this indicates how small the

procedures were developed in a nation that hadup veer sal landline telephones in a population that answeredhe phone. we do not live in that nation anymore. only 9% of calls initiated resulted in a complete interview last year, and in 1997, it was 36%. is that 9% representative of the larger public? we're not sure. the exit poll intake is typically not represented for the general public, a different kind of poll. there's questions to be asked here and things to be learned further so, you know, on predictions it's, you know, there's a lot of -- i think there's a lot of predictions out there. they -- where are the eight target states going? if they went differently, you would have seen a different result, and the electoral college, as i say, what looks like a landslide in the electoral college is not a landslide of popular votes. in 2008, he got the votes, and 53-46 is recorded as the solid win, but not a landslide. you get a land slide of votes usually when you do that. >> i don't begrudge anything that michael or dick morris or anybody said about any election because anybody who does this wi

host: jason says they do not sample anyone without a landline phone. guest: not true.ost: on the republican line, welcome to "washington journal." caller: i would like to bring your attention to the scott walker election. the national media and the polls all had him losing and yet he won fame. if you take that into consideration -- the poles and the way they pulled and the exact science -- polls and the way they polls, these polls are just no good with a fall on side a or side b. americans like to be treated fairly. they do not like to see somebody not being treated fairly. host: thank you. we will get a response. guest: we did a lot of work in the walker recall last year. we had it exactly on the margin was walker winning. there are outliers or things that happen. more often than not, polling is still accurate. we make sure we are calling cell phones and we are getting people who are going to come out to vote. i believe the polling is an accurate science. host: the president concluded his stay in virginia. he begins his day in new hampshire and heads to florida and ba

for likely voters and do we get it right in this era where a lot of people use cell phones and not landlinesan art and science and they didn't very good job by and large. almost every polling organization. gallop was probably the outlier but they were still within the margin of error so i think that is a big take away. number three, i think the myth of the undecided voter. all yearlong, we had stories, who are the undecided voters? the people who are parking themselves going one direction or the other end depending and depending on which week it was, your definition of who is an undecided voter change. before that the first debate the undecided voter were people who, because obama was ahead in the polls and people who said they were undecided were people who were still dissatisfied with the economy and with obama's performance but they weren't yet sold on romney so that was the undecided voter. a week later those people were saying they were for romney and the people who were undecided were people who used to be for obama but they didn't like his performance in the debate so they were undeci

if you look at who we in america doesn't have landlines its young people, it's the exact folks that some pollsters were saying they are not going to turn around this time. in a lot were in putting in their simple but the question is was it enough and i think the whole industry has to take a look at what are we going to do methodologically to make sure we are reaching those people that we have a hard time reaching. >> daniel greenburg said obama was going to win by 3.5 points because everybody was systematically under representing the minority vote. >> i agree with you on the dimare affect challenges for republicans but some did come back. the margin was closer but i think some people expected they would come back more. and they did in some very red states in helping the congressional races. what did republicans do this time? was it just a pretty good bounce back but not enough compared to the demographics? >> you know, i'm surprised where they bounced back. there were some places that weren't really terribly surprising of the congressional level for example middleton kentucky ben chandle

. >> in this room if you're under 30, raise your hand if you have a landline?ise your hand if you have a cell phone. come on. so for people who don't put cell phones, hang on. i'm not done ranting. we did an experiment until bennison of people who we know already early voted using the gallup electorate. 20% of people who had early voted for the gotten thrown out on the screen. they said they were going to vote. that's just a completely wrong screen. you guys, everyone also putting tolls on the front page of their papers in the leak of the new saint obama is now down 14 points and he was tight a week ago. no, no, he wasn't. the fact is he just screwed up your sample on the pole. >> former abc news reporter and "nightline" anchor, koppel talks about how news consumption and the internet except to the quality reporting. from a reporter in harvard university professor, now contributes to not center is and also a commentator on npr. this is about an hour 15 minutes. [applause] >> hello and welcome to the national press club into another edition of the caliber poor.

polling procedures were developed in a nation that universal landline telephone in a population that answered the phone. we do not live in such a nation anymore. pugh research found calls initiated resulted in a 1997 it was 36%. is that 9% representative of the larger public? we're not sure. the exit poll intake is not as typical not been represented for the general public which is a different kind of poll. there are questions to be asked here and things to be learned further. so, you know, it's, you know, on predictions it's, you know, there a lot of -- i think there's a lot of predictions out there. they basically are where the eight target states going if they gone differently, you would seen a different result. and the electoral college, as i said, what looks like a landslide in the electoral college is not a landslide in popular votes. barack obama got 53% of the vote and 365 electoral votes. i think it's regarded as a solid win, usually. not a landslide. you get a landslide of electoral votes usually when you do that. >> as somebody -- i don't begrudge anything that michael or