In those countries, when a regulator says to do something, what happens is that within a very reasonable, short timeframe, those things are done. What happens in the United States is that, when a regulator says something—I’m not complaining about it; I’m just pointing out reality—it’s challenged in the courts and you have a time lag.

Blair Levin, FCC coordinator of the National Broadband Plan, Ars Technica, March 2, 2009