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Friday, December 01, 2006

GAO special access report brings FCC to the reality-based universe

Like some other aspects of the Administration, the FCC has been criticized by some for describing the world as they would like it to be, rather than how it is.

Yesterday, GAO admonished the FCC for failing to reasonably define "effective competition" and for failing gather data to adequately measure competition in the $16 billion dollar a year dedicate access business, which is dominated by AT&T and Verizon.

Kudos to GAO. We hope this report and others like it will bring the Eighth Floor to the reality-based universe.