I believe that is why Mr. Meena advertises his national map off of his website.

I distinctly remember when I was a kid, every Sunday at exactly 9 a.m. in Minnesota, my grandmother would call from New York.

I am sure I am not the only one here who remembers when Ma Bell controlled how we communicated with each other.

I know that carriers like AT&T and Verizon have really a tremendous advantage over everyone else.

Will AT&T commit to offering smaller wireless carriers data roaming agreements at reasonable rates?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I come at this, first of all, as someone who was in private practice for 14 years representing a number of different private phone companies and arguing that competition was really good for the market and that it would-- both the local…

If this merger is approved, not only would AT&T have 44 percent of all U.S. wireless subscribers, but AT&T would be able to demand exclusivity contracts from any phone maker seeking their business because of that enormous market share.

I am not convinced that less competition is going to bring us there.

This is the opportunity for rural America to catch up.

But this is what Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said to the press: 'We build a crowdsourced data base of WiFi and cell tower hotspots, but those can be over 100 miles away from where you are. Those are not telling you anything about your location.'

Google has a screen that contains a number of those, and it seems to work for you guys, right?

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse.

We still have to protect ourselves from Government abuses, and that is a big part of the digital privacy debate.

I think the people have a right to know who is getting their information and the right to decide how that information is shared and used.

It sounds like opt out to me.

When people talked about protecting their privacy, they talked about protecting it from the Government.

To me, this Subcommittee is about addressing a fundamental shift that we have seen in the past 40 or 50 years in who has our information and what they are doing with it.