Common use of Intercarrier Compensation Clause in Contracts

Intercarrier Compensation. Signaling Parameters: CenturyLink and CLEC are required to provide each other the proper signaling information (e.g., originating Calling Party Number (CPN), Charge Number (ChN) and destination called party number, etc.) as required by Applicable Law and further clarified by the FCC Order to enable each Party to issue bills in a complete and timely fashion. All CCS signaling parameters will be provided unchanged including CPN, calling party category, ChN and Originating Line Information Parameter (OLIP) on all calls. All privacy indicators will be honored. Unless the FCC has approved a waiver petition regarding specific technical restrictions, the ChN is to be passed unaltered in SS7 signaling fields where it is different than CPN and ChN must not be populated with a number associated with an intermediate switch, platform, or gateway, or other number that designates anything other than a calling party’s charge number. Where SS7 connections exist, each Party shall pass all CCS signaling parameters, where available, on each call carried over Interconnection trunks. Unless the FCC has approved a waiver petition regarding specific technical restrictions, if either Party fails to provide valid originating information such traffic will be billed as Interstate Switched Access when the calls traverse an interconnection trunk. The Parties will coordinate and exchange data as necessary to determine the cause of the CPN/ChN failure and to assist its correction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either Party shall be permitted to prove the jurisdictional nature of the traffic in question by whatever methodology possible, including, but not limited to the use of the originating or terminating call detail as provided herein. The provision of such information and methodology will not require the receiving Party to use such information or agree that such information is accurate, absent the parties agreeing that such information and methodology is accurate.

Intercarrier Compensation. 55.1 Local Traffic and ISP-Bound Traffic, which is not also VNXX Traffic, exchanged by the Parties shall be compensated at a rate shown on Table One. 55.2 Compensation for the termination of IntraLATA and InterLATA toll traffic and the origination of 8XX traffic between the interconnecting Parties shall be based on the applicable access charges in accordance with each Party’s applicable and lawful tariffs, FCC and Commission Rules and Regulations, and consistent with the provisions of Part F of this Agreement. Tandem switching and Tandem transmission Transit charges will be assessed from CenturyLink's applicable access tariff for any non-Local Traffic originated by CLEC which is routed through a CenturyLink Tandem to a third party. Level 3 must have a unique CIC for each type of service order. 55.3 Intentionally Left Blank 55.4 Signaling Parameters: CenturyLink and CLEC are required to provide each other the proper signaling information (e.g., originating Calling Party Number (CPN), Charge Number (ChN) and destination called party number, etc.) as required by Applicable Law Rules and further clarified by the FCC Order to enable each Party to issue bills in a complete and timely fashion. All CCS signaling parameters will be provided unchanged including CPN, calling party category, CPN and ChN and Originating Line Information Parameter (OLIP) on all calls. All privacy indicators will be honored. Unless the FCC has approved a waiver petition regarding specific technical restrictions, the ChN is to be passed unaltered in SS7 signaling fields where it is different than CPN from CPN, and ChN must not be populated with a number associated with an intermediate switch, platform, or gateway, or other number that designates anything other than a calling party’s charge number. Where SS7 connections exist, each Party shall pass all CCS signaling parameters, where available, on each call carried over Interconnection trunks. Unless the FCC has approved a waiver petition regarding specific technical restrictions, if either Party fails to provide valid originating information such traffic will be billed as Interstate Switched Access when the calls traverse an interconnection trunk. The Parties will coordinate and exchange data as necessary to determine the cause of the CPN/ChN failure and to assist its correction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either Party shall be permitted to prove the jurisdictional nature of the traffic in question by whatever methodology possible, possible including, but not limited to to, the use of the originating or terminating call detail as provided herein. The provision of such information and methodology will not require the receiving Party to use such information or agree that such information is accurate, absent the parties agreeing that such information and methodology is accurate.accurate 55.5 Intentionally Left Blank

Intercarrier Compensation. Signaling Parameters: CenturyLink and CLEC are required to provide each other the proper signaling information (e.g., originating Calling Party Number (CPN), Charge Number (ChN) and destination called party number, etc.) as required by Applicable Law and further clarified by the FCC Order in CC Docket No. 01-92 to enable each Party to issue bills in a complete and timely fashion. All CCS signaling parameters will be provided unchanged including CPN, CPN and calling party category, ChN and Originating Line Information Parameter (OLIP) on all calls. All privacy indicators will be honored. Unless the FCC has approved a waiver petition regarding specific technical restrictions, the ChN is to be passed unaltered in SS7 signaling fields where it is different than CPN and ChN must not be populated with a number associated with an intermediate switch, platform, or gateway, or other number that designates anything other than a calling partyan End User Customer’s charge number. Where SS7 connections exist, each Party shall pass all CCS signaling parameters, where available, on each call carried over Interconnection trunks. Unless All EAS/Local and IntraLATA Toll calls exchanged without ChN and/or CPN information will be billed as either EAS/Local Traffic or IntraLATA Toll Traffic in direct proportion to the FCC has approved minutes of use (MOU) of calls exchanged with ChN and/or CPN information for the preceding quarter when the calls traverse a waiver petition regarding specific technical restrictions, if Switched Access Feature Group D trunk group. If either Party fails to provide valid originating information such traffic will be billed as Interstate Intrastate Switched Access when the calls traverse an interconnection trunk. Traffic sent to the other Party on its interconnection trunks without ChN and/or CPN (valid originating information) will be handled in the following manner. The transit provider will be responsible for only its portion of this traffic, which will not exceed more than five percent (5%) of the total Exchange Service (EAS/Local) and IntraLATA LEC Toll traffic delivered to the other Party. The Switch owner will provide to the other Party, upon request, information to demonstrate that Party's portion of no- CPN/ChN traffic does not exceed five percent (5%) of the total traffic delivered. The Parties will coordinate and exchange data as necessary to determine the cause of the CPN/ChN failure and to assist its correction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either Party shall be permitted to prove the jurisdictional nature of the traffic in question by whatever methodology possible, including, but not limited to the use of the originating or terminating call detail as provided herein. The provision of such information and methodology will not require the receiving Party to use such information or agree that such information is accurate, absent the parties agreeing that such information and methodology is accurate.