The DTE's regulations dictated certain terms by which propertyowners would be required to accommodate telecom carriers seekingaccess to their buildings. Any telecom service provider would beallowed to enter every privately owned, multi-tenanted building inthe state to install their own wiring and equipment for little orno cost.

The National Association of Industrial and Office Propertiesalong with the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and theMassachusetts Association of Realtors lobbied against theregulations. NAIOP's website's states that the regulations "wouldcreate an expensive, cumbersome, unworkable bureaucracy funded bytaxpayer dollars, and ultimately stifle competition for telecomchoice."

David Begelfer, president of the local chapter of NAIOP tellsGlobeSt.com that DTE has appealed the ruling and they are stillwaiting for the results of that appeal.