We have made great progress in making online services even more valuable to people's everyday lives, but there is still much to do. As successful as it has been, e-commerce must become even more convenient and secure for businesses and consumers. To earn and keep consumer trust, we must keep working to protect people's online privacy, and we must make the medium as safe and appealing as possible for families to use. This commitment to ensuring that the medium continues to offer the most it possibly can should also extend to new services that developing technologies will help make more available in years to come. As you may know, there's been a debate in the past few months over high-speed broadband access to the Internet.
Most people currently connect to the Internet over a conventional phone line.
In the next few years, however, we will see new access technologies over high-speed phone and cable lines. At AOL, we are excited about offering broadband access to our members who want to upgrade to faster speeds. We're also committed to embracing every available high-speed technology ready for mass deployment, so that we can offer our members an array of choices. That's because we believe that consumer choice has been the very foundation for the incredible growth of both our industry and this medium. Consumers currently enjoy a very competitive marketplace with more than 5,000 Internet service providers to choose from.