it's a new framework for telecommunications policy for the 21st century according to the authors, robert luiten and hal singer. mr. litan, if we could start with you. if you would, assess the current status of broadband in the u.s. >> guest: um, it's doing pretty well, but it could do a lot better. we have a high degree of penetration of what the fcc defines as minimally-acceptable broadband which is something called four megabits per second, and a megabits is a million bits per second. and we measure the speed of broadband by the number of bits that can go per second. and the faster you can go, the more stuff you can watch. the less jitter you have on youtube or whatever site you're on. and clearly the faster you go you can watch movies, and the main objective that hal and i argue in the book which, actually, i think is uncontestable because while the book, i think, is controversial to some degree, there's no question about what the ultimate objective of broadband policy in this country should be, and that is to get with faster. we need faster broadband. >> host: what are the benefits of faste