For several years on the communications commission, also as administrator of the Rural Utility Service and now is head of pcia, the Wireless Infrastructure association which is what, mr. Adelstein . Guest this association represents the company that builds Wireless Networks, basically, the ones that deliver all of that content to your cell phone, your smartphone, your tablet. The big Cell Phone Companies are on there, at t, verizon, sprint, tmobile as well as companies that own and build the cell towers, the antennas that you find in Shopping Malls. All of the equipment thats behind the scenes that makes possible what you see on that little screen. Host so how many cell towers are there in the u. S. Right now this. Guest theres hundreds of thousands of them and, you know, the fact is its hard to keep up with the level of demand that we have for new infrastructure because of the demands that consumers are placing on the infrastructure we have today. Host what are some of the legislative
Guest the demands the consumer are placing on the legislation. Host what are issues you agencies is focused on . Guest we trying to build out the networks. Sometimes there are leaking issues and sometimes federal rules that affect how we deploy or the impact on historic sights or the environment. We want to be sensitive to those issues, but we want to move forward on deployment as well because these customers depend on having a good, strong connection and getting the data wherever they are. Host the spectrum auction; big deal . Guest they are a very big deal. There is not enough spectrum Going Forward for the demand. Cisco found there is going to be an eight fold increase in the amount of data travelling over the networks. How do you deal with that is the question. There are three levers we use to meet the demands. They use spectrum and they need more. They can use technology move to forth generation because it is more efficient and travels over the same spectrum and the third level is
Topic a for reopening it to discussion. But you made an excellent observation there seems to be a lot of tech illogical stuff arising and consumers are as we say in my household, just pay cash. Why not . And then my kids roll their eyes at you. But this is the argument over a consensus could be argument over do not track, are they really viable or am i going to go out and buy a bad kiss my refrigerator, this marker anyway and just know it will track stats or must i physically turn it off. For the consumer marketplace is going in the regulators behind that point reads business behind that point were only just ourselves and some sense in having the ability to self regulate . First of all, please indulge. Lawyers, too. So that said, privacy is not security and security is not privacy. Thats an important point to make. The more sad that we are as data for an actual asset, the more we will make assetbased discovery decisions and develop incisions and Investment Decisions because as it turns
The sanctions worked. The really tough sanctions forced the the iranians to the table. Russia didnt agree to them. Another area where we dont entirely agree, to put it mildly, is ukraine. You talk about russian attitude to ukraine. You could not write in your book about what is happening right now in kiev, but recent by president yanukovych to moscow, his agreement with president putin. We talk about that . Yes. So the leadership of the ukraine, after the orange revolution, i describe it in my book their russians were disconcert by this, we were hopeful and didnt work out the way the west hoped it would. The leadership under you sharon can they were arguing all the time and you had a relatively free and Fair Election in 2010. Mr. Yanukovych came to power, and the European Union was trying to entice him through this eastern partnership, to sign a deep sea trade agreement, an association agreement, which does not mean membership but it should a tailor the more towards european norm. The
Compromise after 9 11, discusses allegations that the cia spied on staffers. Looks at therter Obama Administration effort to get young adults and africanamericans and hispanics to sign up for health insurance. Former assistant treasury secretary talks about the fiveyear anniversary of the home affordable medication project. Will look for your cause and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal on cspan. On wednesday, british deputy Prime Minister answered questions from parliament on behalf of david cameron. Hes on his First Official visit to israel. Harriet harman represented the opposition side. The deputy Prime Minister spoke about humanitarian efforts in syria and urged allies to continue working with eu in on the ukraine. He also answered questions on the National Health service, the automobile industry, and unemployment. This is over 30 minutes. Concern. He is right to raise it and were on the case. Order. Questions to the Prime Minister. Naomi lon