State research record

Connecticut pole attachment rules, in writing and dated.

Who regulates the pole you are attaching to in Connecticut, what rate standard applies, where a dispute actually goes and whether cooperative and municipal poles are covered. This is the record we work from, published so you can read it yourself.

Record dated September 23, 2026 · certified under Section 224(c) · 4 authorities cited
The record

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Certified under Section 224(c)Record dated September 23, 2026
Cooperative poles
Not applicable. No electric cooperative owns distribution poles in Connecticut
Municipal poles
No. Municipal electric poles fall outside the public service company definition and are governed by the attachment contract
Rate standard
Not established. Connecticut regulates the electric distribution companies and the incumbent telephone company as public service companies, but no state pole attachment rate methodology could be established at the top confidence tier, so none is published here
Where a dispute goes
Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, by written petition under Conn. Gen. Stat. 16-20(b) where no other specific remedy is provided, or by intervening in the pole owner's rate case. A formal complaint proceeding is established practice
Confidence
High confidence on certification, on the public service company definition, on the whole of Conn. Gen. Stat. 16-20 and on the governing PURA decision, all read by the run; Good confidence on the text of the pole sharing statute; Provisional on the rate methodology, the tariffs, the owner map and the BEAD figures, which is why no rate figure is published

AuthoritiesConn. Gen. Stat. 16-1(a)(3)Conn. Gen. Stat. 16-20(b)PURA Docket No. 19-01-52FCC DA 22-630

Read the chip above as one fact and no more: whether Connecticut has certified under Section 224(c) that it regulates pole attachments itself. It does not settle your pole. Cooperative and municipal poles sit outside federal jurisdiction whether or not a state has certified, so the two owner class lines are the ones that answer the question for the invoice in front of you.

This record is worked from the statute and the order that made it rather than from a summary of one. The confidence line is tied to its source: where a conclusion rests on weaker ground the record says so, because a hedge you can see is what makes the confident answers worth believing. The method is set out in how PoleProof researches and verifies, and how a cleared rule enters an audit is on the methodology page.

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