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elements will no longer be offered by BellSouth at TELRIC prices. Within ninety
(90) calendar days of the Effective Date of this Amendment, TC SYSTEMS will
either negotiate market-based rates for these elements or will issue orders to have
these elements disconnected. If, after this ninety (90)-day period, market-based
rates have not been negotiated and TC SYSTEMS has not issued the appropriate
disconnect orders, BellSouth may immediately disconnect any remaining USLF
elements and will bill TC SYSTEMS any applicable disconnect charges.
2.8.5 Unbundled Loop Concentration
2.8.5.1 Upon the Effective Date of this Amendment, the Unbundled Loop Concentration
(ULC) element will no longer be offered by BellSouth and no new orders for ULC
will be accepted. Any existing ULCs that were provisioned prior to the Effective
Date of this Amendment will be grandfathered at the rates set forth in the Parties’
interconnection agreement that was in effect immediately prior to this Amendment
and may remain connected, maintained and repaired according to BellSouth’s
TR73600 until such time as they are disconnected by TC SYSTEMS, or BellSouth
provides ninety (90) calendar days notice that such ULC must be terminated.
2.8.6 Dark Fiber Loop
2.8.6.1 Dark Fiber Loop is an unused optical transmission facility, without attached signal
regeneration, multiplexing, aggregation or other electronics, from the demarcation
point at an end user’s premises to the end user’s serving wire center. Dark Fiber
Loops may be strands of optical fiber existing in aerial or underground structure.
BellSouth will not provide line terminating elements, regeneration or other
electronics necessary for TC SYSTEMS to utilize Dark Fiber Loops.
2.8.6.2 Transition for Dark Fiber Loop
2.8.6.2.1 For purposes of this Section 2.8.6, the Transition Period for Dark Fiber Loops is
the eighteen (18) month period beginning March 11, 2005 and ending
September 10, 2006.
2.8.6.2.2 For purposes of this Section 2.8.6, Embedded Base means Dark Fiber Loops that
were in service for TC SYSTEMS as of March 10, 2005. Subsequent disconnects
or loss of end users shall be removed from the Embedded Base.
2.8.6.3 During the Transition Period only, BellSouth shall make available for the
Embedded Base Dark Fiber Loops for TC SYSTEMS at the terms and conditions
set forth in this Attachment.
2.8.6.4 Notwithstanding the Effective Date of this Agreement, the rates for TC
SYSTEMS’s Embedded Base of Dark Fiber Loops during the Transition Period
shall be as set forth in Exhibit A.
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