my name is michael calabrese and i direct the wireless enterprise at new america which is part of our open technology institute and of course we focus on our wireless and particularly encouraging more efficient use of the airways such as wi-fi and so on. actually as we approach a 5g world connecting everything else including cars is becoming increasingly relevant. this event we are talking cars, 5g and wi-fi trying to get more mileage from a car is very timely. it was just a mobile world congress and there was an incredible focus on 5g as well as on connected cars and how that will happen and how we would use the public airwaves for that purpose as well as for all the other businesses we have. as the invitation indicated the obama administration's proposal to mandate vehicle to vehicle communication systems in particular and all new vehicles which would go into effect over the next 15 to 20 years is reportedly on life support and the department of transportation. the notice of rulemaking has been essentially put in a limbo status. the conventional wisdom right now is the new administr

we've got michael calabrese of the wireless feet futures product and mark with the competitive enterprise institute, we've got mary brown with cisco, senior director of government affairs, and we've got daniel paneras with the int internet and television association. and finally we've got roger who has just generously given us a great background on the subject. michael, i'll start with you. >> thanks for doing this. and you know as roger said, it's looking increasingly unlikely that there will be a mandate for dsrc as the specific technology or really any mandate for a vehicle to vehicle safety signaling. particularly if there's no mandate, the fcc should use the opportunity to make take an immediate fresh look at the high use of this fairly large and now incritical conditi increasingly value spectrum which lays empty. this should be fairly obvious, quite a bit has changed since 1999 when it was first allocated. and i'll mention a few of those first, there is a revolutionary new auto safety technology to avoid most serious accidents, it's just not radio communications technology. as autom