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February 28, 2013  Opening Statement of Commissioner Ajit Pai
at the FCC Field Hearing at Moffett Federal Airfield  Santa
Clara, California  February 28, 2013  Good afternoon. I’d like
to begin by thanking everyone at Moffett Federal Airfield for
hosting today’s event. We at the FCC can’t claim to be your most
exciting guests—for instance, I know that the cast and crew of
“MythBusters” have used your hangars to test whether aircraft
can be constructed of concrete, as well as other important
questions. But we appreciate your hospitality nonetheless.
Today’s hearing is a valuable complement to the Superstorm Sandy
field hearings that we held earlier this month. In New York and
New Jersey, we learned a great deal about the damage to our
communications systems wrought by Sandy and what steps can be
taken to harden our network