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Southern Light
1Q08 GENERIC INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT – 03/10/08
between the customer’s premises and the serving wire center. The UCL-ND typically will be
thirteen hundred (1300) Ohms resistance and in most cases will not exceed eighteen thousand
(18,000) feet in length, although the UCL-ND will not have a specific length limitation. For Loops
less than eighteen thousand (18,000) feet and with less than thirteen hundred (1300) Ohms
resistance, the Loop will provide a voice grade transmission channel suitable for loop start signaling
and the transport of analog voice grade signals. The UCL-ND will not be designed and will not be
provisioned with either a DLR or a test point.
2.4.3.2 The UCL-ND facilities may be mechanically assigned using AT&T’s assignment systems.
Therefore, the Loop Makeup (LMU) process is not required to order and provision the UCL-ND.
However, Southern Light can request LMU for which additional charges would apply.
2.4.3.3 For an additional charge, AT&T also will make available Loop Testing so that Southern Light may
request further testing on the UCL-ND. Rates for Loop Testing are as set forth in Exhibit A.
2.4.3.4 UCL-ND Loops are not intended to support any particular service and may be utilized by Southern
Light to provide a wide-range of telecommunications services as long as those services do not
adversely affect AT&T’s network. The UCL-ND will include a NID at the customer’s location for the
purpose of connecting the Loop to the customer’s inside wire.
2.4.3.5 OC will be provided as a chargeable option and may be utilized when the UCL-ND provisioning is
associated with the reuse of AT&T facilities. OC-TS does not apply to this product.
2.4.3.6 Southern Light may use AT&T’s Unbundled Loop Modification (ULM) offering to remove excessive
bridged taps and/or load coils from any copper Loop within the AT&T network. Therefore, some
Loops that would not qualify as UCL-ND could be transformed into Loops that do qualify, using the
ULM process.
2.5 Unbundled Loop Modifications (Line Conditioning)
2.5.1 Line Conditioning is defined as routine network modification that AT&T regularly undertakes to
provide xDSL services to its own customers. This may include the removal of any device, from a
copper Loop or copper Subloop that may diminish the capability of the Loop or Subloop to deliver
high-speed switched wireline telecommunications capability, including xDSL service. Such devices
include, load coils, excessive bridged taps, low pass filters, and range extenders. Excessive
bridged taps are bridged taps that serves no network design purpose and that are beyond the limits
set according to industry standards and/or the AT&T’s TR 73600 Unbundled Local Loop Technical
Specification. AT&T shall provide Line Conditioning on Loops, as requested by Southern Light,
even in instances where AT&T does not provide advanced services to the end user on that Loop.
2.5.2 AT&T will remove load coils only on copper Loops that are equal to or less than eighteen thousand
(18,000) feet in length. AT&T will remove load coils on copper Subloops where the total loop
distance (feeder plus distribution) from the AT&T central office to the end user is equal to or less
than 18,000 feet or, if there is no copper feeder, the distance from the remote terminal (RT) to the
end user is equal to or less than 18,000 feet.
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