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LOCAL INTERCONNECTION
1 NETWORK INTERCONNECTION
6/23/04
Attachment 3
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1.1 The Parties shall provide interconnection with each other’s network for the
transmission and routing of telephone exchange service and exchange access service.
1.1.1 BellSouth shall permit TC SYTEMS to interconnect at any technically feasible point
on the BellSouth network, including, without limitation, tandems, end offices,
outside plant facilities, Commercial Intra-Building Interconnections and as described
in 47 CFR §51.305.The point where the parties interconnect shall be called a Point
of Interconnection (“POI”) . Such POIs shall be used to (1) deliver Reciprocal
Compensation Traffic originating on TC SYTEMS’s network to BellSouth and (2)
to exchange Meet Point Billing Traffic 3) and Transit Traffic.
1.1.2 At TC SYTEMS’s sole discretion, TC SYTEMS will establish at least one or more
POIs on BellSouth’s network within a LATA in which TC SYTEMS offers local
exchange service.
1.1.3 BellSouth shall deliver Reciprocal Compensation Traffic originating on the
BellSouth network and at such points mutually agreed to between the Parties or,
lacking mutual agreement, at the POI established by TC SYTEMS for the delivery to
BellSouth of its Reciprocal Compensation Traffic originating on TC SYTEMS’s
network.
1.1.4 The originating Party shall compensate the terminating Party under terms of this
Attachment for any transport that is used to carry Reciprocal Compensation Traffic
between the POI and a distant switch within the same LATA as the POI serving the
terminating end user. Such transport shall be either Dedicated Transport or
Common Transport pursuant to the interconnection method elected by the
originating party, subject to the terms of this Attachment.
1.1.5 In the event that TC SYTEMS elects to offer service within a LATA using a switch
located in another LATA, TC SYTEMS agrees to provide the transport for both
Parties’ traffic between the remote TC SYTEMS switch and a point designated by
TC SYTEMS (e.g., TC SYTEMS’s Point of Presence) within the LATA in which
TC SYTEMS offers service. Such facility point of presence shall be deemed to be
an TC SYTEMS Switch Center for the purposes of this Attachment.
1.1.6 Installation, Testing Maintenance and Repair. Interconnection shall be equal in
quality to that provided by BellSouth to itself or any subsidiary, affiliate, or third
party. “Equal in Quality” shall have the meaning accorded in Section 51.305(a)(3)
of the FCC’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 51.305(a)(3). If BellSouth is at any time unable to
fulfill its obligations under this Section, it shall notify TC SYTEMS of its inability to
do so and will negotiate alternative intervals in good faith. BellSouth shall provide
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