i want to thank commissioners rosenworcel and o' rielly for their remarks. we're going to begin with a presentation from michael calabrese director of new america. author of the report titled spectrum silos to gigabyte wi-fi, sharing the gigahertz car bands. there's copies on the table as you came in. there's also an electronic version available on our website. then after michael's presentation, we'll be joined by a great panel to continue today's discussion. and with that, i will pass the mike back to michael to talk about the paper. >> okay. yeah, as the first panelist but the only one using power point, i'll summarize the report and then we'll have the panel come up. so, much like you've heard from the two commissioners for oti, the 5 gigahertz frequency band represents a unique opportunity to achieve super fast giga wi-fi connectivity. to give you an idea of why this is so important, it was just a couple years ago that the fcc's national broad band came out the chairman warned of a looming spectrum crisis. yet each year since then, consumer demand for mo