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You as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and joining us this week on cspans Communicators Program is Walter Mccormick who is president and ceo of an association called us telecom. Mr. Mccormick, who do you represent here in the washington . Guest well, we represent the nations Broadband Service providers, Companies Large and small, you are wan and urban and rural, publicly traded, privately held. These are companies that his to have create were telephone companies, but today they are Broadband Service providers, and they offer service on both a wire line and wireless basis. Host who are some of your members . Guest Companies Like verizon, a, the and, the, centurylink, windstream and Companies Much smaller that serve rural markets in sparselypopulated parse parts of the united states. Host what are some of the major issues right now being confronted by the companies that you represent . Guest i would say the single most, the Biggest Issue is the transition to the new ip
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The russians with something that they know cant happen for two, three years is, may be counterproductive and, my reaction as an Energy Person is to say that the russian reaction would be, if that is the best youve got, then we have nothing to worry about. Thank you all for your testimony. I once again, thank you. Mr. Chow, let me follow up on that for a moment if i might. And that is you mentioned that any solution with lng in regards to ukraine would be midterm, longterm solutions, not short term. Can you just review with us what we should be doing in the short term . N russia has a doubleedged sword here. They can absolutely imply different pressure on ukraine by either raising price or, or cuttinger off but, its a very profitable source of income for russia. And of course a lot of the energy goes through the pipelines to other countries. However, ukraine needs to make itself more independent and have alternative sources and use less energy which is an area that i think the imf is ve
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