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The challenge is identifying those areas where there are market failures. That is where there
isn't a market-driven incentive for companies to deploy broadband because it's too expensive
and there's no profit there. That's where the market is failing. Unfortunately in some
of those communities, because they are densely populated and rural or poor, sometimes those
people don't have as much influence with political leaders. So in some ways the question is not
what is the pressure that politicians are getting, but are politicians identifying those
people who aren't pressuring them who have a need for this technology and reaching out
and doing the right thing and finding those people and being a voice for them. In my view,
that's the role of government. People with money and power, they don't have any trouble
being heard in Brussels or Washington, D.C. It's the people who don't have power that
rely on you to represent them and speak for them.