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A request by Free Press to allow the public to...

A request by Free Press to allow the public to review Form 477 data should be denied, Qwest said in a filing. The National Broadband Plan already recommends that the FCC should “collect more data regarding broadband deployment and adoption…

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and to provide analysis of such data.” The recommendation “encompasses most, if not all, of the relief Free Press is seeking,” the telco said. “Public release of Form 477 data would damage the providers from which that data emanates,” said the American Cable Association, USTelecom and other associations in joint comments. “If such information were made public, it undoubtedly would be used by competitors in developing their own strategies to compete with other broadband providers,” NCTA said in comments.