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6/23/04
Attachment 3
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Order shall in no event be deemed to apply retroactively prior to the Effective Date
of this Agreement.
14.8 Exclusions from Reciprocal Compensation.
14.8.1 Reciprocal Compensation Traffic shall not include the following types of traffic:
14.8.1.1 Exchange Access Traffic (Switched Access Traffic). Exchange Access Traffic is
defined as telephone calls requiring local transmission or switching services for the
purpose of the origination or termination of non-Local Intrastate IntraLATA,
Intrastate InterLATA, and Interstate InterLATA traffic, with the exception of any
mandatory local calling areas that cross LATA boundaries. If BellSouth or TC
SYTEMS is the other Party’s end user’s presubscribed interexchange carrier or if an
end user uses BellSouth or TC SYTEMS as an interexchange carrier on a
101XXXX basis, BellSouth or TC SYTEMS will charge the other Party the
appropriate tariff charges for originating switched access services.
14.8.1.2 Traffic that originates from, or terminates to, a subscriber line that TC SYTEMS
provides, where TC SYTEMS does not own, lease from a third party or otherwise
provide its own switch(es).
14.8.1.3 To Transit Traffic, as defined in this Attachment of this Agreement. Transit Traffic
does not include traffic originating from or terminating to TC SYTEMS customers
utilizing resold BellSouth services and such traffic should be addressed consistent
with Attachment 1 of this Agreement. Transit Traffic also does not include UNE-P
traffic, which shall be treated consistent with Section 14.8.1.2 above. Transit Traffic
shall be compensated and billed in accordance with Section 19 of this Attachment.
14.9 For the purposes of this Attachment 3, Common (Shared) Transport is defined as
the transport of one Party’s traffic by the other Party over the other Party’s common
(shared) facilities between the other Party’s tandem switch and end office switch
and/or between the other Party’s tandem switches.
14.10 For the purposes of this Attachment 3, Tandem Switching is defined as the function
that establishes a communications path between two switching offices through a
third switching office through the provision of trunk side to trunk side switching.
14.11 For the purposes of this Attachment 3, End Office Switching is defined as the
function that establishes a communications path between the trunk side and line side
of the End Office switch.
14.12 “IP Enabled Services” includes, but is not limited to, services and applications that
rely on internet protocol for all or part of the transmission of a call. IP Enabled
Services could include the digital communications capabilities of increasingly higher
speeds, that use a number of transmission network technologies, and that generally
have in common the use of internet protocol. IP enabled applications could include
capabilities based on higher-level software that can be invoked by the customer or on
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