In addition, the company more than doubled its building access rights to more than 8,000 buildings at year end, with over 1,500 access rights added in the fourth quarter alone.
Unreasonable delay is probably our biggest barrier.
In a majority of cases, it takes nine months to two years to negotiate access rights with building owners. At this rate, it will take decades to obtain access rights to all the buildings and customers that our networks are designed to reach. Testimony of Timothy Graham, general counsel and exec. Some TSPs, who are requesting forced access, are in fact the same ones who have failed to take advantage of all the opportunities available to them at this point . . . The telecommunications industry cannot have it both ways.