Why does the FCC keep using old data?

[Commentary] If the Federal Communications Commission is going to be "data-driven in its decision-making process," and "as the nation's expert agency on communications, the FCC must have access to, and base its decisions on, data that are robust, reliable, and relevant" why is it relying on old data when deciding open Internet, network neutrality rules? The FCC doesn't have to supply obsolete data. Current information is available to it. The agency is in charge of wireless spectrum licenses and transfers, so commissioners and staff have up-to-date records of what has happened since 1997 to the small wireless competitors. By doing a search on the Web, the FCC could have found much later data from the Census Bureau and Small Business Administration on Internet providers and all other small business competitors. The FCC is required by the "Regulatory Flexibility Act" to create an analysis, essentially an impact study, on how the FCC's regulations will affect small business competitors. Such an analysis is in every FCC proceeding that creates a new rule. However, over the last decade, instead of actually doing an analysis, the FCC has taken boilerplate - the 1997 data - and thrown it into the back of each rule making.