"Hey, Hilary," you say, "what's your Wi-fi password?" Get that, get on the network, and you can play your music on her speakers.
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And as Mr. Johnson points out, "If you can't get on the network, you've been locked out of the market".
"But someone could go out to a remote substation that has very little physical security and get on the network and take out hundreds of substations potentially.
Despite the fact that Al Jazeera's economic correspondent was just kicked off the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, officials in Washington have been lining up to get on the network.
"People were coming in and walking up and saying, 'I can't get on the network.' " Like companies and individuals around the world, Ford was caught by surprise on Thursday by a rogue software program propagated by e-mail messages with "I love you," in the subject field.
Simply put, if too many people get on the network at the same time, performance goes down.
"You capture an experience, you come home, get on the network.
"It is all very well to test speeds, but if you can't get on the network then the speed becomes irrelevant," he told the BBC.
How much will it cost to get on the network? A. That's another business decision for Verizon Wireless.
