site is that if you did all that there were cell tower equipment located here you just you can't see it you wouldn't know at the end certainly from a distance there's there's no sign of that which we try to do here this afternoon we're so excited about the cell site and i really want to thank governor someone for being here with us as we announce the turning on of this site we're also really excited about our investment in the state of vermont over the past three years we've invested more than sixty million dollars in our network here and we've made that investment for a number of reasons we want to serve our customers as a factory as we can but i will also tell you that that this investment has been made and the foundation of it has been governor shumlin leadership and his commitment to bringing high speed broadband to vermont residents he has created an environment for companies to come in and invest and we are so grateful to him with us in putting the site in and allowing us to tell the site you guys have been terrific to work with and we really thank you and your father it's also the at the only thing that we want to do is recognize the role of local officials  bringing broadband to vermont we have had the privilege of working with outstanding committed local officials here when we when we build a site we try to do it we work hard to do it in a way that is responsive and sympathetic sensitive to the concerns of the local community and so when we work with local officials to tell us what the concerns are and are willing to work with us to address those concerns we can always find a site and a solution that is sensitive and responsive to those need so i want to thank the local officials across the state of vermont for doing that and working with us finally the last thing i want to say is this site was constructed and is maintained by local contractors so we work with local the state of vermont and without further ado introduce your governor peter shumlin katty kay should thank you patty thank you and thank you wait to give to you thank you on you and your tire family for making this tower possible i know the c order the entire team this is a big deal anyone who does business lives or gets near to an encounter knows that when you get to richmond we always said  we're getting a response hole we're going to lose you now that hole has been fixed and this is happening across the state why we can't grow jobs we can't enjoy our quality of life we can't meet in the twenty first service so we won't get there still but what we can do is work together with a canteen and our other providers to cruel ourselves service and do it smart that's what this project's all about if you drove up to this  you wouldn't go that this is now one of the towers that taking care of the richmond home if you drive past our rest area up the road you wouldn't know that it's one of the transmission centers for taking care of the rich so this is really an example a public private partnerships come together government private industry to solve big problems for providers to grow jobs to improve our quality of life i want to thank you and my entire team we've now put in over four hundred you i just want to say that you have a governor that is very very committed and involved in this process in the department and a government that has been very helpful and i can tell you that that's not the case in all the places that we do business and it's one of the main east and southwest of vermont all across the state and this issue of comic to vittie has been huge for us we hear all ican from our members i'm going to repeat a lot of what's just been said but i think it's important to make that point number one we have to thank the governor and his leadership when he ran six years ago this governor took on one of the most intractable problems that we had in vermont which was cut activity he understood that we needed to connect all vermonters so that we were not living in the bit twentieth century that our business is whether or not they were in the northeast kingdom or in southern vermont or in tunbridge vermont could join the twenty first century that we could have a robust growing and thriving private sector economy here in vermont and he has made that promise we're meeting that promise in this is one of the things we're doing today also in that process what he did was he respected the core values of vermonters as did a teensy when they put up this site we worried about these statics and we wanted to make sure that it didn't these towers were not a blight on our landscape we wanted to respect the governor wanted to respect eighteenth's he wanted to respect the community process making sure the community members could have through to forty a process of voice into how these things were going to be set up we went through that process the process sometimes takes a while it's never clean it's never easy but the end it produces durable solutions like we have here today and then eighteen t twenty even further is as many of you know there were in the process of a merger with directv and when that happens and we hope the federal regulators approve that the governor has said as a t t has said this is a true public private partnership that works it benefits government it benefits the private sector it benefits all vermonters whether or not you're working at home working at a business or you're in the can school trying to help your kids in sixth grade to learn about what's going on in the world so on behalf of the business community in the state of vermont i like thank you governor for his leadership and you for your support and leadership in moving us forward and that's pretty much wrap things up again want to thank all of you for being here and i know the governor has a very tight schedule but i think you know questions related to the cell site or what agency has done i would be w bring high speed internet access to every last mile with the exception of one discrete and that's what we're trying to do we are now what you're saying ninety nine percent of the way we've got a solution for virtually every address so we're making real progress we have deliver on the promise of high speed internet access we're building out some of the last locations in terms of cell service the good news is that as we move to four g in many of our wired we're driving fiber is deep as far as we can we are building out a four g wireless network from there and as we do that we're moving cell service in many of those locations but really what this is about is working together with our providers wherever we can to get a group cell service and it there another area that you're focusing well we're actually focused all all over the state we just turn on a new site the end of january a new thing in an area that had no coverage whatsoever and so we're proud of that and my network guys who were here so i've got to whisper this but we've we've got we've got probably eight sites or so that we're going to be turning on this year and a number of other sites that there was a woman who died in the northeast kingdom earlier this year because she was trying to get to a neighbor's house to use the phone since there's no cell coverage of where she lives in the northeast kingdom other active plans right now to take get coverage switched on up there for cell phone but speak clearly we are the toughest day probably in the nation to get universal so coverage because of arcos of dollars geographically this is one of the toughest places in the world to get cells universal service so you know we're really ha