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See, e.g. Applications Filed for the Transfer of Control of tw telecom inc. to Level 3 Communications, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, 29 FCC Rcd. 12,842,12,846-47, 12,848-49 ¶¶ 13-14, 16-17 (2014) (describing the relevant markets for merger analysis in terms of global footprint, metropolitan footprint, and on-net buildings); Applications Filed by Global Crossing Limited and Level 3 Communications, Inc. for Consent to Transfer Control, Memorandum Opinion and Order and Declaratory Ruling, 26 FCC Rcd. 14,056, 14,066, 14,069- 70 ¶¶ 21, 30 (2011) (identifying the Tier 1 ISP and international transport markets as relevant markets for purposes of merger analysis); Applications Filed by Qwest Communications International Inc. and CenturyTel, Inc. d/b/a CenturyLink for Consent to Transfer Control, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 26 FCC Rcd. 4194, 4202 ¶ 16 (2011) (concluding that the relevant geographic market for wholesale special access services is “a particular customer’s location, because it would be prohibitively expensive for an enterprise customer to move its office location in order to avoid a ‘small but significant and nontransitory increase in the price’ of special access service”). transit); (2) the market for international transport services (including submarine cable facilities and the capacity needed to provide those services); (3) the market for long-haul services (including inter-city fiber needed to provide those services); and (4) the market for retail and wholesale enterprise services (including facilities needed to provide those services, e.g., connections to buildings and fiber transport facilities deployed near to buildings). The combined company will face significant competition in each of these markets. As noted above, CenturyLink and Level 3 face formidable challenges from AT&T, Verizon, cable companies, and other non-ILEC vendors in the provision of enterprise services such as Ethernet. In addition, the Commission itself has acknowledged that the internet backbone transmission services and international transport services markets are characterized by high levels of competition.21 Furthermore, and as explained more fully below, CenturyLink and Level 3 today have only a limited degree of overlap in any of these markets. As a result, the Transaction will not have a significant effect on the number of providers or the availability of such services in these markets. Even in the locations or on the routes in which CenturyLink and Level 3 today are both...