So, it's a fight to introduce competition, but that's a fight I eagerly take on. In Britain, the government of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulated most aspects of the telephone and cable industries in one fell swoop. As a result, investment in the British version of the info highway has taken place at an incredible pace. These debates about sequencing are like a dance contest between two partners when neither one wants to let the other take the lead. They're all trying to figure out where the advantage lies.
Incumbents are anxious about the prospect of competition and the new entrants are eager to enter.
It's very important to break down that gridlock. In this interview with Malone that you mentioned earlier, he talks about how he thinks cable is the most aggressive competitor in building the information highway. I thought that was an interesting interview, because it was only last fall that many people were saying telephone and cable mergers were essential to building the information highway. It was Malone who launched the biggest such merger himself. And many people think that if the government did anything to stop telephone companies from merging with cable companies, it would be inconsistent with wanting to build the information highway.