As utilities and other critical infrastructure industries (CIIs) move forward in the development and deployment of smart grids, marketing ploys that misrepresent their capabilities and needs have been implemented that are designed to skew both decision making and regulatory oversight. The marketing ploys ignore the fact that CIIs will ultimately choose to build their own networks or buy telecom services based upon technical requirements, costs and levels of service required. CIIs have and will continue to utilize others to provide telecom services for certain aspects of their operations and smart grid deployments based upon these criteria. For many of the reasons identified in UTC's new Information Bulletin, CIIs will meet their telecom needs by expanding their existing networks. As described in the Bulletin, the rhetoric which has been introduced into the marketplace tends to understate the real capabilities of utilities and other critical infrastructure industries and overstate the capabilities of others. UTC's new Information Bulletin has separated fact from fiction and can be found on the UTC website.