kind ofess is any communication that goes through space without that wire.f technologye that is very common, very popular. what we call wireless local area networks. if you subscribe to a broadband service that does data, brings data into your house through the cable company or telephone company, you will quite typically then have a wireless modem that distributes or signal around the house through a standard called wi-fi. so that is a particular type of wireless technology. host: you say some very positive things about a politician that is no longer alive. inleft congress, defeated 1980. he was the chairman of the communications subcommittee in the cows -- in the house. this is not good audio, but i want to show the audience what he sounded like. -- i want you you to tell me how he fits. >> three years ago, the subcommittee had just commuted -- completed a hearing on the breakthrough study of cable, cable promise versus performance. we found out that the regulatory impediment to full cable development has been such that you would have almost been put out of