The commercial real estate, particularly BOMA International, is applauding the announcement on October 12 by the Federal Communications Commission that it would not mandate access to office buildings. Instead, the FCC will hold the real estate community to the commitment it made to seek marketplace solutions for access. Thus, rather than mandating access to buildings across the board, as the competitive local exchange carriers had hoped, the FCC noted the voluntary standards entered into the record by the Real Access Alliance and is taking the landlord community at its word. As to be expected, BOMA International is closely tracking all developments and offering further analysis of this important FCC decision at its Web site www.BOMA.org. These will be reported in FMLink as they become available. Complete content of the FCC order can be viewed at www.boma.org/download/govt/fcc/order.doc.
Based on a report from BOMA.org, the magazine
