COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION (CEI)

An equal- access concept developed by the FCC stating that, ". . . if a carrier offers an enhanced service , it should be required to offer network interconnection (or collocation) opportunities to others that are comparably efficient to the interconnection that its enhanced service enjoys. Accordingly, a carrier would be required to implement CEI only as it introduces new enhanced services." [FCC Report and Order June 16, 1986]