Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) And our first question today will come from Tom Seitz with Lehman Brothers.
Tom Seitz - Lehman Brothers
Hi. Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Can you give us an update on your various video strategies? The DISH integrated box along with some of the other things you talked about previously? And then, secondly, can you talk a little bit more about small business? Don, you mentioned that the access line weakness in business was related primarily to the three larger customers. Some the other carriers have talked about weakness in [SMEE] and I just would like your take in general on the small business effort right now? Thanks.
Maggie Wilderotter
Hi, Tom, it's Maggie. I will start and Don can pile on. On the video strategy front, we continue to focus on our DISH bundles and selling DISH also (inaudible) with our product sets as our primary video strategy at this point in time. We also see, though, from an Internet perspective the opportunity to offer video content in the future in packages.
One of the things that we have been waiting for is what's called the combination box from the DISH Network. I had the opportunity to see a demonstration of that box just in the last 60 days. It's coming along and the goal is, from DISH to deliver that box in the first quarter of '09 for distribution into our markets. And we were pretty excited about that because the box provides IP as well as satellite television.
So for the customer it's one user interface. It is an ability to access on the television set both your television content as well as any content that you want to watch on that TV coming from the Internet. So we can also customize that user interface from a Frontier perspective and brand certain content on that box Frontier. So it also gives us the opportunity to bring in local video content.
I think as many of you recall, we have got a relationship with ESPN360 and over the last couple of years we have been videotaping different football games in our markets called Game On where our customers, through this 360 product, can actually watch those videos on their PCs. We think that is another great example of what we can deliver on the television set with this type of combo box.
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