quite a ways

“So you’ve got essentially a situation along a front line that extends, I don’t know, probably Washington, D.C., to Atlanta, something like that. It’s quite a ways. And that front line hasn’t changed hands. It’s essentially been stalemated,” he said.

“And then we inched back from it, and now we’ve inched back quite a ways from it — and it could be many years until we get there, if we ever do.”

While it seems like forever since someone won, it’s quite a ways from the record of 41 straight drawings that has occurred a couple of times, most recently leading up to that $2.04 billion California prize.

“There is quite a ways to go. It’s such a big part of this community and has been for so long. I think there are many more conversations yet to be had.”

As for SpaceX and T-Mobile, their plans are quite a ways out, giving the companies time to try and work things out with regulators — they don’t expect to even start testing their service until the end of next year.