 to the Terms of Use as given at the website. The Byzantine World of Telecom Regulation WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF EVERYTHING WORKED THIS WELL? What else in your home is used routinely by every member of the family, gets dropped on the floor, chewed on by teething babies, slammed down, knocked around and, after all that, still works when you need it? Few things in life are as reliable as a genuine Bell phone. So if you're looking for a new phone, there's really only one place to go. The Bell PhoneCenter. It's for you. Bell Phone Center longer had to provide switching as an unbundled element to CLECs for business customers unless state regulatory agencies could prove within 90 days of the order that this resulted in an overly onerous impairment to their ability to do business. In the residence market, the FCC outlined specific criteria that each state had to use to determine whether CLECs were impaired without Downloaded from Digital Engineering Library @ McGraw-Hill (www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com Copyright © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use as given at the website. The Byzantine World of Telecom Regulation Chapter 4 unbundled switching. They also concluded that ILECs did not have to provide competitors with SONET-level transport services (OC-N), but shifted responsibility to the states to determine whether ILECs should be required to unbundle dark fiber and DS3 transport on a route-by- route basis. For broadband, the FCC's decision was clearer. They ruled that all new broadband buildouts, including both fiber builds and hybrid loops, were exempt from unbundling requirements as well. They also ruled that line sharing would no longer be classified as a UNE, a decision that put considerable pressure on competitive carriers, such as Covad Communications, that rely on line sharing. Apparently, the decisions reached by the Commission were far from universal. Commissioner Kevin Martin was the only member who agreed with the entire order. Chairman Powell and Comm