TC Systems, Inc. South Carolina - AT&T Clec Online

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2.4.3.3 For an additional charge, BellSouth also will make available Loop Testing so that
TC SYSTEMS may request further testing on the UCL-ND. Rates for Loop
Testing are as set forth in Exhibit A of this Attachment.
2.4.3.4 UCL-ND Loops are not intended to support any particular service and may be
utilized by TC SYSTEMS to provide a wide-range of telecommunications services
as long as those services do not significantly degrade other services on the
BellSouth 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 an existing BellSouth circuit that is currently
providing service. OC-TS does not apply to this product.
2.4.3.6 TC SYSTEMS may use BellSouth’s Unbundled Loop Modification (ULM)
offering to remove excessive bridged taps and/or load coils from any copper Loop
within the BellSouth 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 BellSouth
regularly undertakes to provide xDSL services to its own customers. This may
include the removal of any device, from a copper Loop or copper Sub-loop that
may diminish the capability of the Loop or Sub-loop to deliver high-speed
switched wireline telecommunications capability, including xDSL service. Such
devices include, but are not limited to, load coils, excessive bridged taps, low pass
filters, and range extenders. Excessive bridged taps are bridged taps that serve no
network design purpose and that are beyond the limits set according applicable
industry standard technical references. Absent any applicable industry standard
technical reference, (e.g. Telcordia, NESC, ANSI, NEBS) BST TR 73600
unbundled local Loop technical specifications shall apply in a non- discriminatory
manner consistent with 47 CFR 51.311(b), the BellSouth TR 73600.
2.5.2 BellSouth will remove load coils only on copper loops and sub-loops that are less
than 18,000 feet in length.
2.5.3 Any copper Loop being ordered by TC SYSTEMS which has over 6,000 feet of
combined bridged tap will be modified, upon request from TC SYSTEMS, so that
the Loop will have a maximum of 6,000 feet of bridged tap. This modification will
be performed at no additional charge to TC SYSTEMS. Loop conditioning orders
that require the removal of bridged tap that serves no network design purpose on a
copper Loop that will result in a combined total of bridged tap between 2,500 and
6,000 feet will be performed at the rates set forth in Exhibit A of this Attachment.
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