Behind me is the tappan zee 1952, which was built in intended to be a temporary bridge at the time. Over 140,000 vehicles go over the tappan zee bridge, theh is more than twice capacity and design of the bridge. Outdated, unsafe, in need of repair for many, many years. This state has said on many occasions that the bridge had to replaced. 80 millionspent and 10 years talking about bridge. G the but we just couldnt get it done. Complex. Emingly too it was too big. We couldnt even get it started. Metaphor for a what had happened to our state, gridlock, government parial sis, fear, and indecision had taken control. My friends, is not the new york way. Bold, the state of the the state of the daring, the state of performance, the state , of intricate transit systems. Works the state of public that challenge the imagination. North of here, straight up the hudson river, the erie canal, one of the most ambitious public the nation at the time. People said it couldnt be done. Was clinton who set
Are not watching video or emailing, if you are not doing is more it effective and costefficient. We are talking about the old Voice Network. How do we move from the cost benefits of the Service Benefits by thinking about how things have to change . Another thing going on that we have not talked about. We talked about the supply side and how people provide it. In the wayhanges users arent using the network. Not the services but what people want. Place inte is taking europe. They have a set of universal Service Obligations that still includes phonebooks. A lot of us today say we cannot remember the last time we looked at a phone book. That information is obsolete. Online is more efficient. Another thing that is part of their universal Service Obligation as payphones. In the world of ubiquitous cell phones you cannot find a pay phone on most streetcorners anymore. They are not useful because of the way people are using the network. One of the pivotal questions is we used to think about vo
Its a pleasure to be here today to talk about the i. P. Transition. But before we do what i want to talk about is another transition thats been occurring and thats directly related, and thats the transition of our networks from copper to fiber. Of course its generally understood today Everybody Knows that fiber to the home is the best Broadband Network possible and one that many are striving to obtain. When verizon started to roll this out ten years ago it wasnt so obvious and we got a lot of questions about why we were doing this. Who needs 30 megabits per second . But Everybody Knows today that we need much more than that which is why were now up to 500 per second over the fiber and much more to come. So fiber is an important part of the i. P. Transition and a basis for the i. P. Transition. But the transition of voice from copper to fiber doesnt depend on i. P. And thats what i wanted to talk about for a few minutes. So fiber started in the Telephone Network many years ago. There ar
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Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. Visit xfinity. Com moving today. Good day from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Well bring you the latest as we begin with new reaction this hour to bombshell secret recordings of President Trumps sister sharply criticizing him. Maryain trump spoke with mary trump for hours in 2018 and 19 unaware she was being recorded and saying things like this . [ bleep ] and the lying oh, my god, really, but you know it is the change of stories, the lack of preparation, the lying, the holy [ bleep ]. But hes appealing to the base. What theyre doing with the kids at the border, i mean well the tapes were reported by the Washington Post and obtained and confirmed by nbc news and recordings were made here in new york where only one party needs to consent for a conversation to be legally recorded. Meantime, the president is gearing up for a scaled down Na