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Zayo, Near North Partners Cite 'No Significant Market Overlap' in Proposed Neutral Path Deal

Zayo Group and Near North Partners said there's "no significant market overlap" between Zayo and Neutral Path, NNP's parent. They responded to an FCC staff request to supplement their application to transfer Neutral Path assets to Zayo. "Neutral Path services…

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focus on long haul links rather than metro networks," including a "long-haul fiber route from Minneapolis, MN (with an extension to Rochester, MN) to Omaha, NE," said the filing Monday in docket 18-49. "Since Zayo has an extremely limited network in Omaha, Minneapolis is the primary metropolitan area where Zayo and Neutral Path have overlapping, owned fiber facilities. Neutral Path primarily provides service to other carriers on a wholesale basis and therefore the proposed Transaction ... will not remove a competitor serving residential or enterprise business in any market." They said potential competitors in the Minneapolis, Rochester and Omaha markets include CenturyLink, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cogent, Charter Communications and Cox Communications.