Common use of Cooperation on Preventing End User Fraud Clause in Contracts

Cooperation on Preventing End User Fraud. 38.1 Each Party shall be liable for any fraud associated with that Party’s End User’s account, including 1+ IntraLATA toll, ported numbers, and Alternate Billing Service (ABS). ABS is a service that allows End Users to bill calls to account(s) that might not be associated with the originating line. There are three types of ABS calls: calling card, collect, and third number billed calls. 38.2 The Parties agree to cooperate with one another to investigate, minimize, and take corrective action in cases of fraud. The Parties' fraud minimization procedures are to be cost-effective and implemented so as not to unduly burden or harm one Party as compared to the other. 38.3 In cases of suspected fraudulent activity by an End User, at a minimum, the cooperation referenced in the above paragraph will include providing to the other Party, upon request, information concerning End Users who terminate services to that Party without paying all outstanding charges. The Party seeking such information is responsible for securing the End User's permission to obtain such information. 38.4 AT&T will provide notification messages via fax to CLEC on suspected occurrences of ABS-related fraud on CLEC accounts stored in the applicable LIDB. 38.4.1 AT&T will use a Fraud Monitoring System to determine suspected occurrences of ABS-related fraud for CLEC using the same criteria AT&T uses to monitor fraud on its own accounts. 38.4.2 CLEC understands that Fraud Monitoring System alerts only identify potential occurrences of fraud. CLEC understands and agrees that it will need to perform its own investigations to determine whether a fraud situation actually exists. CLEC understands and agrees that it will also need to determine what, if any, action CLEC should take as a result of a Fraud Monitoring System alert. 38.4.3 The Parties will provide contact names and numbers to each other for the exchange of Fraud Monitoring System alert notification information twenty-four (24) hours per day seven (7) days per week. 38.4.4 For each alert notification provided to CLEC, CLEC may request a corresponding thirty-day (30- day) historical report of ABS-related query processing. CLEC may request up to three reports per alert. 38.5 ABS-related alerts are provided to CLEC at no additional charge. 39.0 CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND ACCESSIBLE LETTERS‌ 39.1 Notice of Network Changes 39.1.1 AT&T agrees to provide CLEC reasonable notice consistent with applicable Network Disclosure FCC rules (adopted by the FCC in CC Docket No. 96-98, Second Report and Order, codified at 47 C.F.R. 51.325 through 51.335), of changes in the information necessary for the transmission and routing of services using AT&T's facilities or networks, as well as other changes that affect the interoperability of those respective facilities and networks. This Agreement is not intended to limit AT&T’s ability to upgrade its network through the incorporation of new equipment, new software or otherwise. 39.2 Each Party is individually responsible to provide facilities within its network that are necessary for routing, transporting, measuring, and billing traffic from the other Party's network and for delivering such traffic to the other Party's network in the standard format compatible with AT&T’s network as referenced in Telcordia BOC Notes on LEC Networks Practice No. SR-TSV-002275, and to terminate the traffic it receives in that standard format to the proper address on its network. 39.2.1 The Parties are each solely responsible for participation in and compliance with national network plans, including the National Network Security Plan and the Emergency Preparedness Plan.

Cooperation on Preventing End User Fraud. ‌ 38.1 Each Party shall be liable for any fraud associated with that Party’s End User’s account, including 1+ IntraLATA toll, ported numbers, and Alternate Billing Service (ABS). ABS is a service that allows End Users to bill calls to account(s) that might not be associated with the originating line. There are three types of ABS calls: calling card, collect, and third number billed calls. 38.2 The Parties agree to cooperate with one another to investigate, minimize, and take corrective action in cases of fraud. The Parties' fraud minimization procedures are to be cost-effective and implemented so as not to unduly burden or harm one Party as compared to the other. 38.3 In cases of suspected fraudulent activity by an End User, at a minimum, the cooperation referenced in the above paragraph will include providing to the other Party, upon request, information concerning End Users who terminate services to that Party without paying all outstanding charges. The Party seeking such information is responsible for securing the End User's permission to obtain such information. 38.4 AT&T SBC TEXAS will provide notification messages via fax to CLEC on suspected occurrences of ABS-related fraud on CLEC accounts stored in the applicable LIDB. 38.4.1 AT&T SBC TEXAS will use a Fraud Monitoring System to determine suspected occurrences of ABS-ABS- related fraud for CLEC using the same criteria AT&T SBC TEXAS uses to monitor fraud on its own accounts. 38.4.2 CLEC understands that Fraud Monitoring System alerts only identify potential occurrences of fraud. CLEC understands and agrees that it will need to perform its own investigations to determine whether a fraud situation actually exists. CLEC understands and agrees that it will also need to determine what, if any, action CLEC should take as a result of a Fraud Monitoring System alert. 38.4.3 The Parties will provide contact names and numbers to each other for the exchange of Fraud Monitoring System alert notification information twenty-four (24) hours per day seven (7) days per week. 38.4.4 For each alert notification provided to CLEC, CLEC may request a corresponding thirty-day (30- day) historical report of ABS-related query processing. CLEC may request up to three reports per alert. 38.5 ABS-related alerts are provided to CLEC at no additional charge. 39.0 CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND ACCESSIBLE LETTERS‌ 39.1 Notice of Network Changes 39.1.1 AT&T agrees to provide CLEC reasonable notice consistent with applicable Network Disclosure FCC rules (adopted by the FCC in CC Docket No. 96-98, Second Report and Order, codified at 47 C.F.R. 51.325 through 51.335), of changes in the information necessary for the transmission and routing of services using AT&T's facilities or networks, as well as other changes that affect the interoperability of those respective facilities and networks. This Agreement is not intended to limit AT&T’s ability to upgrade its network through the incorporation of new equipment, new software or otherwise. 39.2 Each Party is individually responsible to provide facilities within its network that are necessary for routing, transporting, measuring, and billing traffic from the other Party's network and for delivering such traffic to the other Party's network in the standard format compatible with AT&T’s network as referenced in Telcordia BOC Notes on LEC Networks Practice No. SR-TSV-002275, and to terminate the traffic it receives in that standard format to the proper address on its network. 39.2.1 The Parties are each solely responsible for participation in and compliance with national network plans, including the National Network Security Plan and the Emergency Preparedness Plan.

Cooperation on Preventing End User Fraud. 38.1 Each 40.1 Neither Party shall be liable for any fraud associated with that Party’s End User’s account, including 1+ IntraLATA toll, ported numbers, and Alternate Billing Service Traffic (ABSABT). ABS ABT is a service that allows End Users to bill xxxx calls to account(s) that might not be associated with the originating line. There are three types of ABS ABT calls: calling card, collect, and third number billed calls. 38.2 40.2 The Parties agree to cooperate with one another to investigate, minimize, and take corrective action in cases of fraud. The Parties' fraud minimization procedures are to be cost-effective and implemented so as not to unduly burden or harm one Party as compared to the other. 38.3 40.3 In cases of suspected fraudulent activity by an End User, at a minimum, the cooperation referenced in the above paragraph will include providing to the other Party, upon request, information concerning End Users who terminate services to that Party without paying all outstanding charges. The Party seeking such information is responsible for securing the End User's permission to obtain such information. 38.4 AT&T 40.4 SBC MISSOURI will provide notification messages via fax to CLEC on suspected occurrences of ABSABT-related fraud on CLEC accounts stored in the applicable LIDB. 38.4.1 AT&T 40.4.1 SBC MISSOURI will use a Fraud Monitoring System monitoring system to determine suspected occurrences of ABSABT-related fraud for CLEC using the same criteria AT&T SBC MISSOURI uses to monitor fraud on its own accounts. 38.4.2 40.4.2 CLEC understands that Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alerts only identify potential occurrences of fraud. CLEC understands and agrees that it will need to perform its own investigations to determine whether a fraud situation actually exists. CLEC understands and agrees that it will also need to determine what, if any, action CLEC should take as a result of a Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alert. 38.4.3 40.4.3 The Parties will provide contact names and numbers to each other for the exchange of Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alert notification information twenty-four (24) hours per day seven (7) days per week. 38.4.4 40.4.4 For each alert notification provided to CLEC, CLEC may request a corresponding thirty-day (30- 30-day) historical report of ABSABT-related query processing. CLEC may request up to three reports per alert. 38.5 ABS40.5 ABT-related alerts are provided to CLEC at no additional charge. 39.0 CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND ACCESSIBLE LETTERS‌ 39.1 Notice of Network Changes 39.1.1 AT&T agrees to provide CLEC reasonable notice consistent with applicable Network Disclosure FCC rules (adopted by the FCC in CC Docket No. 96-98, Second Report and Order, codified at 47 C.F.R. 51.325 through 51.335), of changes in the information necessary for the transmission and routing of services using AT&T's facilities or networks, as well as other changes that affect the interoperability of those respective facilities and networks. This Agreement is not intended to limit AT&T’s ability to upgrade its network through the incorporation of new equipment, new software or otherwise. 39.2 Each Party is individually responsible to provide facilities within its network that are necessary for routing, transporting, measuring, and billing traffic from the other Party's network and for delivering such traffic to the other Party's network in the standard format compatible with AT&T’s network as referenced in Telcordia BOC Notes on LEC Networks Practice No. SR-TSV-002275, and to terminate the traffic it receives in that standard format to the proper address on its network. 39.2.1 The Parties are each solely responsible for participation in and compliance with national network plans, including the National Network Security Plan and the Emergency Preparedness Plan.

Cooperation on Preventing End User Fraud. 38.1 Each 40.1 Neither Party shall be liable for any fraud associated with that Party’s End User’s account, including 1+ IntraLATA toll, ported numbers, and Alternate Billing Service Traffic (ABSABT). ABS ABT is a service that allows End Users to bill calls to account(s) that might not be associated with the originating line. There are three types of ABS ABT calls: calling card, collect, and third number billed calls. 38.2 40.2 The Parties agree to cooperate with one another to investigate, minimize, and take corrective action in cases of fraud. The Parties' fraud minimization procedures are to be cost-effective and implemented so as not to unduly burden or harm one Party as compared to the other. 38.3 40.3 In cases of suspected fraudulent activity by an End User, at a minimum, the cooperation referenced in the above paragraph will include providing to the other Party, upon request, information concerning End Users who terminate services to that Party without paying all outstanding charges. The Party seeking such information is responsible for securing the End User's permission to obtain such information. 38.4 AT&T 40.4 SBC MISSOURI will provide notification messages via fax to CLEC on suspected occurrences of ABS-ABT- related fraud on CLEC accounts stored in the applicable LIDB. 38.4.1 AT&T 40.4.1 SBC MISSOURI will use a Fraud Monitoring System monitoring system to determine suspected occurrences of ABSABT-related fraud for CLEC using the same criteria AT&T SBC MISSOURI uses to monitor fraud on its own accounts. 38.4.2 40.4.2 CLEC understands that Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alerts only identify potential occurrences of fraud. CLEC understands and agrees that it will need to perform its own investigations to determine whether a fraud situation actually exists. CLEC understands and agrees that it will also need to determine what, if any, action CLEC should take as a result of a Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alert. 38.4.3 40.4.3 The Parties will provide contact names and numbers to each other for the exchange of Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alert notification information twenty-four (24) hours per day seven (7) days per week. 38.4.4 40.4.4 For each alert notification provided to CLEC, CLEC may request a corresponding thirty-day (30- 30-day) historical report of ABSABT-related query processing. CLEC may request up to three reports per alert. 38.5 ABS40.5 ABT-related alerts are provided to CLEC at no additional charge. 39.0 CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND ACCESSIBLE LETTERS‌ 39.1 Notice of Network Changes 39.1.1 AT&T agrees to provide CLEC reasonable notice consistent with applicable Network Disclosure FCC rules (adopted by the FCC in CC Docket No. 96-98, Second Report and Order, codified at 47 C.F.R. 51.325 through 51.335), of changes in the information necessary for the transmission and routing of services using AT&T's facilities or networks, as well as other changes that affect the interoperability of those respective facilities and networks. This Agreement is not intended to limit AT&T’s ability to upgrade its network through the incorporation of new equipment, new software or otherwise. 39.2 Each Party is individually responsible to provide facilities within its network that are necessary for routing, transporting, measuring, and billing traffic from the other Party's network and for delivering such traffic to the other Party's network in the standard format compatible with AT&T’s network as referenced in Telcordia BOC Notes on LEC Networks Practice No. SR-TSV-002275, and to terminate the traffic it receives in that standard format to the proper address on its network. 39.2.1 The Parties are each solely responsible for participation in and compliance with national network plans, including the National Network Security Plan and the Emergency Preparedness Plan.

Cooperation on Preventing End User Fraud. 38.1 40.1 Each Party shall be liable for any fraud associated with that Party’s End User’s account, including 1+ IntraLATA toll, ported numbers, and Alternate Billing Service (ABS). ABS is a service that allows End Users to bill calls to account(s) that might not be associated with the originating line. There are three types of ABS calls: calling card, collect, and third number billed calls. 38.2 40.2 The Parties agree to cooperate with one another to investigate, minimize, and take corrective action in cases of fraud. The Parties' fraud minimization procedures are to be cost-effective and implemented so as not to unduly burden or harm one Party as compared to the other. 38.3 40.3 In cases of suspected fraudulent activity by an End User, at a minimum, the cooperation referenced in the above paragraph will include providing to the other Party, upon request, information concerning End Users User who terminate terminates services to that Party without paying all outstanding charges. The Party seeking such information is responsible for securing the End User's ’s permission to obtain such information. 38.4 AT&T 40.4 SBC ARKANSAS will provide notification messages via fax to CLEC on suspected occurrences of ABS-related fraud on CLEC accounts stored in the applicable LIDB. 38.4.1 AT&T 40.4.1 SBC ARKANSAS will use a Fraud Monitoring System monitoring system to determine suspected occurrences of ABS-related fraud for CLEC using the same criteria AT&T SBC ARKANSAS uses to monitor fraud on its own accounts. 38.4.2 40.4.2 CLEC understands that Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alerts only identify potential occurrences of fraud. CLEC understands and agrees that it will need to perform its own investigations to determine whether a fraud situation actually exists. CLEC understands and agrees that it will also need to determine what, if any, action CLEC should take as a result of a Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alert. 38.4.3 40.4.3 The Parties will provide contact names and numbers to each other for the exchange of Fraud Monitoring System monitoring alert notification information twenty-four (24) hours per day seven (7) days per week. 38.4.4 40.4.4 For each alert notification provided to CLEC, CLEC may request a corresponding thirty-day (30- 30-day) historical report of ABS-related query processing. CLEC may request up to three reports per alert. 38.5 40.5 ABS-related alerts are provided to CLEC at no additional charge. 39.0 CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND ACCESSIBLE LETTERS‌ 39.1 Notice of Network Changes 39.1.1 AT&T agrees to provide CLEC reasonable notice consistent with applicable Network Disclosure FCC rules (adopted by the FCC in CC Docket No. 96-98, Second Report and Order, codified at 47 C.F.R. 51.325 through 51.335), of changes in the information necessary for the transmission and routing of services using AT&T's facilities or networks, as well as other changes that affect the interoperability of those respective facilities and networks. This Agreement is not intended to limit AT&T’s ability to upgrade its network through the incorporation of new equipment, new software or otherwise. 39.2 Each Party is individually responsible to provide facilities within its network that are necessary for routing, transporting, measuring, and billing traffic from the other Party's network and for delivering such traffic to the other Party's network in the standard format compatible with AT&T’s network as referenced in Telcordia BOC Notes on LEC Networks Practice No. SR-TSV-002275, and to terminate the traffic it receives in that standard format to the proper address on its network. 39.2.1 The Parties are each solely responsible for participation in and compliance with national network plans, including the National Network Security Plan and the Emergency Preparedness Plan.