"65,049,600" - the number of tons of copper wire supporting the communication of America.

"Regulators, politicians, and litigators always imagine that they can promote various high-minded goals, such as universal service, by offering monopoly privileges to companies for providing it. But the result, as Peter Huber and his associates show in their text, Federal Broadband Law, is mostly to promote monopoly at the expense of real universal services, which ultimately depends not on law but on innovation"

[from Telecosm by George Gilder, 2000]