For being with us today. I look forward to a fascinating conversation. My pleasure. Thank you for being with us. I could not be the more delighted to welcome my old friend general washington to be in company once again. It has been a time, general. It has been, search. Its actually my pleasure and my honor to be with you, although i confess i do not understand how this is happening. Well i believe, general, it is because of one of the duties written explicitly in our constitution. One of the duties of the legislative body. The pursuit of science. Which i am a strong supporter of. Our first question then. It is for the two of you. What do you remember as your first meeting . First meeting. You know. If you will allow me, mr. Jefferson, i reckon that those who are viewing may or may not be aware that i am older than yourself by 11 or 12 years. 11 years, your excellency. We were both born under the old style calendar. Thats correct. Very confusing at different times. I actually believe i
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Only is more than 50, almost 55, maybe 56 now which leaves a pretty small portion that has to pay for electricity, trucks, people, gas, benefits, wages, you know, repair and so forth. So if i were trying to operate a 45,000subscriber cable tv system in todays world, it would be pretty hard to do just with Cable Television service. Host and, in fact, you were quoted recently in a news article saying as far as television verse is us internet is concerned, its the internet. Guest absolutely. Host thats the future. Guest yes. Oh, absolutely. Were making our plans now to be a, to build a gigabit fiber overlay over our entire system. It will take years to do and cost many millions of dollars, but thats really where the future lies. The television ecosystem seems to be so badly i wont say broken, but distorted, its on a, i think its sort of on an autopilot course toward being unaffordable in small towns like ours. Not by me, but by the consumers. Host so what does that mean for consumers who
Have more internet broadband customers than we have other customers. That is universal. Peter matt said, do you provide dfull spectrum that said, provide a full spectrum of cable tv options do you provide a full spectrum of cable tv options . Yes. A fiber rich kovacs coaxial design. We have full service on television, two way, home gateways, video on demand, local advertising. We do everything the large cable tv operators do, just better. Same do you face the regulatory issues that comcast would face . Yes, we do. Technically we do. There are certainly some exceptions that have been negotiated or created over time. I like to think we do not face the same scrutiny. One because we mind our peas and qs. P and peter is a profitable . Absolutely. Peter is cable tv profitable . It depends on how you define cable tv. I dont know that the television element on its own is highly profitable. The content costs have become high. For example, our basic Cable Tv Service the usual 100 channels cost a
List i ask you guys work with the community and get tech people if i was a ceo guy im not one i dont make that money thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon my name is zach and im a tech professional so this is now i also grew up in a Small Business households i appreciate the challenges that citys is making i just got out of jury duty i feel strongly about this legislation enough to be here today when i first saw it public last year. Could you pull the milk to our mouth. When i saw coverage of sxhaurns to limit the proliferation of this Massage Service i applaud it those businesses to the greater neighborhood to City Government intents the massage establishment and make it difficult for them to act in San Francisco the legislation is not that action it is only made available to this week and with the carve outs for the sole practitioners existing businesses this legislation will do far more harm to the Community Members theres a world of difference bet