The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (the Chamber) commissioned a comprehensive independent study "Sending the Right Signals: Promoting Competition Through Telecommunications Reform" because the telecommunications industry is in a depressed economic condition and is not recovering along with the rest of the economy. This condition has already cost the nation more than 380,000 jobs and has diverted tens of billions of dollars of capital from the industry. It is now beginning to seriously erode the United States' technological leadership in the world.

If it is not reversed, this situation will affect the nation's international competitiveness, causing further losses of jobs and investments, eventually harming the high standard of living of all Americans.

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