Unbundled Network Elements-Platform (UNE-P, UNE-Platform) - Individual parts of an applicable network infrastructure. The FCC ruled that ILECs (incumbent local exchange carriers) are required to provide their competitors access to these, at a discount. Thus their competition can sell telecommunications services without having to install their own lines, presumably increasing competition and
lowering consumer cost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNE-P