 Hi and welcome to another five minutes with Harold Feld, where we try to take insanely complicated boring stuff and make it slightly less boring because this stuff is important. I talked before about something I call virtual redlining, which is where if we're going to have these pay for prioritization fast lane things, we're going to find that the folks who make the content, the folks who make the services, what are usually called edge providers because they're not the ones who control the network, they're the ones that the ad-true stuff gets taken into the network. Folks like Netflix, Google, those kind of things. They're not going to want to pay to prioritize to everyone. They're going to choose which customers they want to pay in order to get the better service, the faster service, and which customers are just going to get the plain old ordinary service. The way I described it sounded like it was kind of one of these urban issues where we were talking mostly about minority communities and certain zip codes and how people are going to make all kinds of stereotypical assumptions, but it's not just limited to minority communities in urban areas. We're also talking about rural areas because people make the same kind of assumptions about rural areas also. It's already hard enough to get broadband in rural areas. Some of the broadband there is just not going to support this kind of prioritization. If you're stuck getting satellite, there's a built-in lag. You'll never get prioritization, which means services that are high-end services designed for these paid prioritization fast lanes are just not going to work for you in the same way. Even if you have regular broadband, odds are good that companies like Facebook, Google, or new high-end providers that are trying to bring this content and these services in are not going to pay to prioritize to rural areas because they're generally poorer and people just assume that they don't need the high-end stuff and they're not interested in the high-end stuff. So yeah, John Deere and the other companies that are working on precision agriculture, maybe they will prioritize, but if we're talking about educational things or just plain old entertainment like Netflix, they're not going to pay to prioritize to rural areas. What makes me say that? Well, already these companies don't pay to prioritize to rural areas in the ways that are legal. Right now, you can set something up called a content delivery network, CDN, which way in which companies like Netflix or Disney or other companies that have lots of content to move, move that content closer to the subscribers so that it gets there faster. Right now, they don't bother to do that for rural areas. You can get that in urban areas where there are more customers and it's worth it to pay the price to do that kind of a CDN, but even Netflix, which was trying to give away content on its CDN, only reached 86% of the country. They did not go into the rural areas. So when the question is, are people going to pay to prioritize to the rural areas? I'm betting not so much. So we're looking at a world where between urban and rural, your internet service is going to work different and even in cities. It's going to be different in my neighborhood than it is in your neighborhood. That's not a very good world to try to run a business or even to figure out whether everybody's got access to what they need.