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6/23/04
Attachment 3
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services. ISP-bound Traffic is not Local Traffic subject to reciprocal compensation,
but instead is information access traffic subject to the FCC’s jurisdiction.
14.2.2 Local Traffic, which is defined as any telephone call that originates in one exchange
and terminates in either the same exchange, or other local calling area associated
with the originating exchange as defined and specified in the originating Party’s
tariff. Additionally, Local Traffic includes any cross boundary, voice-to-voice
intrastate, interLATA or interstate, interLATA calls established as a local call by the
ruling regulatory body.
14.3 Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed in any way to constrain either Party’s
choices regarding the size of the local calling areas that it may establish for its end
users.
14.4 The Parties recognize and agree that the compensation for the transport and
termination of Local Traffic is intended to allow each Party to recover costs
associated with such traffic. The Parties recognize and agree that such
compensation will not be billed and shall not be paid for calls where a Party sets up a
call, or colludes with a third party to set up a call, to the other Party’s network for
the purpose of receiving reciprocal compensation, and not for the purposes of
providing a telecommunications service to an end user.
14.5 Transport and Termination Functions – Reciprocal compensation provides
compensation for both Call Transport and Termination of the applicable traffic
between the originating carrier’s point of interconnection and the last point of
switching. The terminating Party shall assess, and the originating party shall pay,
compensation in accordance with this section. Each Party shall assess the equivalent
(symmetrical) rates set forth in this Agreement for the specified transport and
termination function it provides in the transport and termination of Reciprocal
Compensation Traffic.
14.5.1 For purposes of this Attachment, transport is the transmission and any necessary
tandem switching of telecommunications traffic subject to section Reciprocal
Compensation of the Act from the interconnection point between the two carriers to
the terminating carrier’s end office switch that directly serves the called party, or
equivalent facility provided by a carrier other than an incumbent LEC.
14.5.2 Where reciprocal Traffic is transported via a Party’s dedicated trunk group, whether
to an end office switch or a tandem switch, the dedicated transport rates set forth in
this Agreement shall apply in addition to the applicable per minute of use rate
elements. To the extent a rate associated with the dedicated transport is not set
forth in Exhibit A, the rate shall be negotiated by the parties or where applicable,
shall be as set forth in the appropriate Party’s Commission filed and effective tariff
for switched access services.
CCCS 214 of 433