“I think you're going to see it ultimately come back in the line.”

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“here our [ AIA ] footprint is, the cohorts of customers we're going to target in those particular areas, the ones that we think we can hold over time, and we believe that, that's what builds a sustainable franchise, and leads us to service revenue growth in growth and leadership in the industry by the time we exit this decade. And that reordering of convergence along those asset bases that's going to make that happen. It's going to take a little bit of time for that reordering of customer base to asset base to occur. And I think there's going to be a little bit of the accelerated churn dynamic that you've been seeing in the last couple of quarters as that shakes itself out. But just like any math equation, you hit that tipping point where you start to get the benefits of the strategy. And I think you're going to see it ultimately come back in the line. And when we tell you that we've got fantastic converged lifetime values, for example, fiber and wireless, then we'll have a dominant part of our portfolio that represents that base, and that's when profitability looks good. And the franchise looks like a really strong franchise move forward. Operator: The next question comes from Michael Rollins with Citi. Michael Rollins: John, in your opening comments, you described that AT&T operates the most advanced and open communications network by the end of the decade. Can you unpack how AT&T is defining the term open, including how that impacts your go-to-market? And how you look at further partnerships, or acquisitions to maximize the TAM and your return on capital? And then just secondly, if I could, on the account growth sequentially in consu”