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March 09, 2006

Backstage and on Camera at CNBC's Squawk Box:

Yesterday morning I had a slightly surrealistic experience when I had my first chance to be interviewed on CNBC's Squawk Box. While I did have to get up at 4am, it was for the right reason and I would welcome the opportunity to do so again. It turns out that at 4.45 AM the roads around the metro NYC area are pretty empty so I made it from my home on Long Island to their Green Room in less than 30 minutes. While most of the time I spent at CNBC was in their Green room, the ten minutes I spent on their set and the six minutes that their segment on "Net Neutrality" ran, it was great to be there, sitting at the same desk as the Squawk Box team.

Squawk Box is a program that I've been watching for years and as a fan of the show, it felt great to be there, being interviewed and sitting on their set in the presence of the Squawk Box team.

While I knew the interview was going to include a discussion of "Net Neutrality" I really wasn't sure what kinds of questions would be asked.

When asked about Net Neutrality, what I said on live on Squawk Box was: "It has always been my opinion that the application providers are central players on the web because they provide the ingenuity that can change the world. Our industry should not constrain their creativity by burdening them with incremental costs, but rather, the access providers - who charge end users - should be the ones responsible for ensuring fast, reliable access that enables customers to see what they want to see, and do what they want to do on the web."

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