Rod Blum: “Get off my back with excessive regulations so I am not spending time and money on that.”

It reminds me of someone buying a drug that there is only one available in the country and then raising the price 100-fold.

Get out of my back pocket with excessive taxes so I am not spending time and money on that.

To me, it is almost like legalized extortion, in that you can get a letter--and we have, our company has--get a letter that says, you know: You are violating this innocuous patent we have never heard of because you--I will use an extreme…

It is imperative--imperative--that we identify and help mitigate the difficulties identified by small, rural carriers in deploying broadband so we can begin to close the urban and rural digital divide.