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And then in other places, analog is still king. LA County, huge county, that's basically the city of LA. They're different than Florida, right? They've got these jagged mountains and deep canyons. And in these places, digital radios really suffer from the cliff effect, where essentially, once too much of the data stream is lost, it's irrecoverable, and your audio goes from good, good, good, good to not so good, and then boom, gone. And you don't really know when you're going to hit a cliff until you hit it. And the problem with that is, if you have somebody who's in a canyon, they can't get into the system. Whereas with an analog system, even if you keyed your mic and you were covered in static, you still knew somebody was there, and you could still perceptibly hear what they were saying. It might be difficult, but having something come through was better than nothing at all. So this is one of the arguments that they made. There are other arguments as well in that there are...