and if a guy like malone can get it exactly wrong, then we all can. there were these students at the university of illinois in champagne urbana who were inventing the thing that became netscape that created a universe of infinite channels. then malone course corrected and helped create at home which was the country's first mass market broadband provider. and part of what we say in this plan is there's certain things we need to get right. like we need to get spectrum right, we need to rights of way right. but the market is going to do all kinds of things we can't predict. we need to make sure that the inputs are appropriately available and then let the market work its wonders. now, one of the most important things we think in the plan is understanding what are the barriers to using these tools to solve a number of our nation's props. -- problems. and so we go into, you know, what is preventing the best courses in the world from being offered to all students everywhere in terms of education? what's preventing our kids from going around with 25 pounds of

if john malone got it wrong, we all can. there were students at the university of illinois who were inventing mosaic that became netscape and an infant -- infinite number of channels. part of what we say in this plan is that there are certain things we need to get right. we need to get the spectrum right. we need to get universal service right. the market is going to do all kinds of things we cannot predict. we need to make sure that the inputs are appropriately available and then let the market worked its wonders. one of the most important things in the plan is understanding the barriers to using these tools to solve a number of problems. we go into what is preventing the best courses in the world from being offered to all students everywhere in terms of education. what is preventing our kids from going around with 25 pounds of books and probably out of date instead of using the most up-to- date information on ebooks? there are barriers to use. you will see a lot more uses of it. the important thing to understand this is a

radio personalities but just good quality books, whether it's on licy the economy, for example george malone the former wall street journal columnist. he recently wrote a book on the great money binge. so we do a wide range of books not just radio and tv personalities but a wide range of authors, politicians, what have you. >> can you tell us who heads up threshold at the moment? >> louis burke is our publisher for the in prin. my responsibilities under louise are to help market and promote. and then, of course, mary mad lin acts as our editor at large. she's running a lot of great projects f us, including vice president cheney's book, which we will be publishing next year. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. up next, after words. this week former massachuset ces -- massachusetts governor mitt romney. in it re-examines what are the greatest challenges to the nation today and provides his own blue prin for american progress in years to come 37 the expected 2012 candidate talks with juan williams of national public radio. >> i'm juan williams. today on after words, mitt romney.

i'm here with tony malone. here at the wireless conference. good to see you. >> great to be here, michelle. >> you are all excited because you have a 4g network coming and sprint beat you. does that give them a competitive advantage that you now lost? >> we're very excited about our deployment this year. if you think about the explosion in demand for mobile broadband, i would like to equate it to a resort community and the beach front property is spectrum and the luxury high rises are lt technology. >> that's your technology. >> that's our technology and we're going to launch this year covering a third of the nation, 100 million people are going to be covered with our technology by the end of the year. we're very excited about that. >> i will ask you the same question. why do we need it? what's so wonderful that will make that network a selling point so that people get your service versus others? >> well, just like years ago, voice, people did not want to be tied to that landline device and they wanted mobile. same thing is happening in a mobi

i talked to ron malone, who is the vice president of gentiva health services and one of the largest providers of home health services in florida. he said, look, senator, it's not going to hurt us so much. we're a big company and we can spread costs. we'll get more market share. but it is going to hurt the smaller companies and a lot of the smaller companies are going to go out of business. how is that health care reform? who do we owe an obligation to provide health care more than to our seniors? the florida medical association, and i recently got to visit with their president, which is the largest physician association in florida, with 20,000 members says, that this legislation does not adequately fix what's wrong with our current system. it contains many provision that's would allow government bureaucrats to interfere with patient care decisions and raises the cost of health insurance unnecessary lymph this is from the doctors of florida. and they say it's going to interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and increase costs. why are we doing this? the sixth myth that i want to tackle,