Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
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About, tell us consolidated communications. Thank you for having me. Consolidated communications is a broadband provider that Services Mostly rural areas. Our territories extend from the northern parts of the midwest down to east central texas. Sacramento upof into the northern areas, northern new england. What is the service you provide . Broadband services to consumers, commercial customers. Even connections to wireless towers. We Service Everyone in the community and leverage those assets. Help Rural Communities connect with the internet. We are really passionate about living, working, playing in those communities. Who are your competitors . Cable tvre typically companies. We often serve places they do not go. You will see Wireless Service providers. Technology we employ to extend our footprints. Does somebody that have your service write out a check . Send money every month . They do. We are not on the radar. In the communities we serve, we are. We are involved, we do not by big br
Matt denman of commit occasions daily. Before we get into some of the issues, tell us about consolidated communications. Thank you for having me. Consolidated communications is a broadband provider that Services Mostly rural areas. We are passionate about bringing Broadband Services to our customers. Our tour tours extend from the Northern Areas of the midwest down to east central texas. And from the outskirts of sacramento up into the Northern Areas of northern new england. What is the service you provide . We provide Broadband Services to consumers, commercial customers. Even backhaul or connections to wireless towers. We Service Everyone in the community and leverage those common assets. Help Rural Communities connect two with the internet. We are really passionate about living, working, playing in those communities. Who are your competitors . They are typically cable tv companies. We often serve places they do not go. You will see Wireless Service providers. Which is a technology w