FCC Releases Instructions for and Modifications to Special Access Mandatory Data Collection

Today, the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau ("WCB") issued an Order adopting a mandatory data collection in the special access proceeding. This Order follows the FCC's December 2012 Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking described in our December 2012 regulatory update titled "FCC Releases Special Access Order on Mandatory Data Collection and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking." A copy of our earlier update can be found  here. In today's Order, the WCB modifies the mandatory Data Collection for special access that was issued last December, and provides instructions for entities required to respond. The FCC will not issue a deadline for responding to the Data Collection until it receives final approval from OMB.