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Last week the FCC announced that it will start to make industry data gathered during its review of competition in the special access services market available under protective order. 

Members of the public authorized under the protective order will soon be contacted by NORC at the University of Chicago to enable review of the data. The data is housed in a secure data
enclave hosted by NORC, a public policy research institution, and will be accessible remotely as well as through NORC's facilities in Bethesda, Md.

To assist in its own analysis of the data, the FCC has contracted with Boston University Professor of Economics Marc Rysman, who will provide advice and produce a white paper examining the nature of competition and marketplace practices in the supply of special access services. Professor Rysman, who just completed a visiting scholar program at Harvard, is a leading practitioner in empirical industrial organization, specializing in issues of network effects, two-sided markets, standardization and compatibility, notably in telecommunications.

Also, in two related public notices released last week, the Bureau announced more individuals seeking access to the collected data, and extended the comment and reply comment deadlines for the special access rulemaking to November 20 and December 11, 2015, respectively. The deadlines had been September 25 and October 16, 2015.

Show Daily News Due by Friday, October 9
The COMPTEL PLUS Show Daily is a magazine featuring news from the COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2015 Business Expo, which will hit the newsstands at the Marriott Marquis on the mornings of Monday, October 19, and Tuesday, October 20. Exhibitors, sponsors and COMPTEL members are invited to submit news for the Show Daily by Friday, October 9, 5 p.m. ET.

Show Daily Submission Guidelines

• All press releases or news items should be sent via e-mail as a Word document. Accompanying graphics should be JPEG format, with a resolution of 300 dpi or better.
• Please put "COMPTEL PLUS SHOW DAILY" in the e-mail subject line when sending news.
• To be considered for inclusion, news must either be announced at the show, or within days prior to it. All news sent to Show Daily editors will be held under embargo until the official release date.
• COMPTEL PLUS exhibitors, sponsors and advertisers will be given space priority in the Show Daily. COMPTEL members who are not exhibitors or sponsors at the COMPTEL PLUS Fall show are invited to submit their news, which will be published on a space-available basis. The Show Daily editorial staff makes every effort to include all news sent to them by the editorial deadline.

News submissions received via e-mail after October 9, or onsite during COMPTEL PLUS, will be included in the Show Daily solely on a space available basis.All news releases and accompanying press materials and graphics should be e-mailed directly to Show Daily Editor Tara Seals. For questions, she can be reached at 413-313-8863. Please copy Gail Norris when sending news releases.

Companies wishing to advertise in the Show Daily should e-mail Publisher Berge Kaprelian or call 480-503-0770.
 

September 22   Regulatory/Legislative Committee Meeting

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