Having completed several rounds of telecommunications reforms, the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) has now announced a number of policy decisions governing the infrastructure provided by new market entrants. To ensure that the public benefits from a competitive market through a "network of networks," the DPUC ordered all facilities-based carriers to make their services available for resale and their networks available on an unbundled basis. So as not to slow the development of alternative network facilities, the DPUC ruled that a competitive carrier need not offer the full array of unbundled network services until its access lines equal 20 percent of the current access lines of the incumbent LEC in "any single modified labor market area."
