Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I won't get anywhere close to asking all my questions.
There has been a lot of talk about vintages here, and I guess I'm of a slightly different vintage from everyone else in the room. My background is in IT and computers. I used to run my own small web design business, and I've also worked in fibre and cabling and terminating fibre.
I'll start off with Mr. Hersche. You mentioned the high cost of plowing fibre at about $18,000 per kilometre. I have a very good understanding of what that means. Folks around the room may not. I would love to ask you about that, but it would take the whole five minutes to explain it. Could you perhaps provide to the committee at a later time an explanation of the process and what's involved in plowing fibre and why the cost is so high? I think that would be very useful for the committee to hear.
I will give you a question to answer right now. Both the United States and Australia have laid out clear long-term spectrum deployment plans to give industry certainty moving forward. In Canada, however, no such long-term plan has been announced. Has the government's failure to lay out a coherent plan for future deployment of spectrum impacted your long-term planning and business operations?