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It could take months to get Office of Management and...

It could take months to get Office of Management and Budget approval for a mandatory data request on the state of competition in the special access market, and even with a quick review process and a short comment cycle, a…

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new analytical framework to regulate special access circuits might not be in place until 2014, AT&T’s Bob Quinn said in a blog post (http://xrl.us/bngrzu). Dissecting Metropolitan Statistical Areas into smaller, more disaggregated areas could take even longer, wrote the senior vice president of federal regulatory affairs. “By the time this process is completed every other country in the world will have migrated to IP technology,” Quinn said. “Wouldn’t it be better from a policy perspective to be world leaders in this area and instead devote our limited resources to easing the path to investment in new, IP technologies by network providers, equipment manufacturers and consumers? If we don’t begin that process until we're done here, we will be looking up at the Top 10 IP technology countries in the world, not down at them."