We think we have made some very strategic, very smart bets,

The timing is propitious. The FTC did help us perhaps get this done a little bit sooner than it would. I think Time Warner is genuine in their interest in providing multiple ISPs access to their cable plan and we're happy we're the first one,

Wireless Philadelphia represents an important milestone in the deployment of wireless broadband in the United States on such a wide scale. It provides a competitive alternative to high-speed Internet offerings and gives many Internet users the ability to stay connected, no matter where they are in the city.

Cable is still a small piece of the pie. The predominant way people will be connecting, even in five years, will be over plain old copper phone wires.

But it's a hard living. It's like being a sharecropper. They are basically selling (access) to me for almost what they are selling it to consumers. And it's hard.

We have been so disenchanted about our ability to get access to broadband pipes that we felt like we needed to take a more proactive stance. Our model would prefer that we be a non-facilities-based provider, but if you don't have people who own the network willing to sell it to you at a price that you can make a living, you've got to change the name of the game.