It's a very difficult question. As you know, Mr. McTeague, the regulators in this country and in the U.S. and elsewhere have been struggling for over a decade to try to find the appropriate test for deregulating markets. In fact, it's been two decades since we started with the long distance industry.
I suppose it's one of these things that could be studied further; indeed, we recommended as a panel that there be some further study of it. Having said that, once the commission issued its decision on forbearance of local markets, I don't think we considered it inappropriate for the government to act to expedite the deregulation of the local markets.
The reality is, it's very hard to set a specific test. The commission's test, based primarily on a market share threshold, which was the commission's best effort to try to come up with a bright line test, had its flaws. Most economists would not support a straight market share test as a determinant of when a market should be deregulated. I think, given that literally for four or five years now regulators have been studying—or postponing, in some cases, the study of—forbearance of telecom markets, and given the relatively rapid pace at which the markets have become competitive—and they've become very competitive—I don't think it was inappropriate for the government to try to expedite the level of—