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But you bring a great point. I'm Gonna ask each one of you to address that if you would for me, please I come from South Central Pennsylvania an incredibly rural area with our over 5000 farms and these are all small businesses Please touch on the importance of accessibility to rural broadband in your particular concerns and the concerns regarding small businesses throughout your areas Sure we think broadband is incredibly important because we know that the Internet is often the first place that people are turning now when they're looking for businesses we we met a person this week who had a long care business and he was connected through them tech to his neighbor who lived across the Street who Didn't know that he had a lawn care business but because of the Internet Cause they rebel to connect online they got new customers and help build their business So making rural broadband is incredibly important, because we know that That's, where everybody is going to turn to make sure that those are able to access the Internet and have an online presence So they're not missing out on potential clients I I would echo that sentiment in terms of just the importance of connecting people we hear from businesses all the time that are outside of large cities about how they would love to be able to access higher one of the big reasons why we would never never. But why we can't go to some of these smaller communities is that we are at these business So if people don't have access to broadband, they don't have access to potentially even downloaded app or being able to connect them But sometimes it's the small businesses in rural communities that being a service like higher more than a business. That's it You know downtown Manhattan because they do need to access People so I think that making sure that people have access to broadband is is about fourth support with important across the country and I would just add to what, They've said as far as marketing connection. But also education. And I think I know for myself and for a lot of entrepreneurs that education that then training they're receiving they're finding online. And so when you don't have access to even hides, be Internet or broadband to stream videos to learn techniques and other elements of In your business and not the insurance as well If I could just add to what she said we, we also been surveyed the professionals that say you know when you need information about your business, where do we turn to you turn to the Do you turn to your local chamber and increasingly people are turning to the Internet to Facebook groups to Youtube videos to get information from Fellows in their industry and then just other business owners about how to solve challenges that We've talked about throughout this panel I might just indulges a few more seconds If I asked a yes or no question for each one of you if there was more access to Internet through rural broadband Expansion and accessibility would that make your business stronger and grow more? It's? A. Yes? No Yes Yes yes thank you all for being here today I yield back











