Common use of Local Loop Clause in Contracts

Local Loop. 4.1 Consistent with Section 2.1 of this Attachment UNE, SBC MISSOURI shall provide Unbundled Local Loop under the following terms and conditions. 4.2 Pursuant to applicable FCC rules, a local loop UNE is a dedicated transmission facility between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an premises. Therefore, consistent with the applicable FCC rules, SBC MISSOURI will make available the UNE loops set forth herein below between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an premises. The Parties acknowledge and agree that SBC MISSOURI shall not be obligated to provision any of the UNE loops provided for herein to cellular sites. Where applicable, the local loop includes all wire within multiple dwelling and tenant buildings and campuses that provides access to End User premises wiring, provided such wire is owned or controlled by SBC MISSOURI. The local loop UNE includes all features, functions and capabilities of the transmission facility, including attached electronics (except those electronics used for the provision of advanced services, such as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers), and line conditioning Local Loop UNE includes, but is not limited to (DS1, DS3, fiber, and other high capacity loops to the extent required by applicable law, and where such loops are deployed in SBC MISSOURI wire centers. CLEC agrees to operate each loop type within the technical descriptions and parameters accepted within the industry. In accordance with 47 C.F.R. 51.319(a)(9), SBC MISSOURI shall not engineer the transmission capabilities of its network in a manner, or engage in any policy, practice, or procedure, that disrupts or degrades access to a local loop or subloop, including the time division multiplexing-based features, functions and capabilities of a hybrid loop, for which a requesting telecommunications carrier may obtain or has obtained access pursuant to this agreement. 4.2.1 When a local loop UNE is ordered to a high voltage area, the Parties understand and agree that the local loop UNE will require a High Voltage Protective Equipment (HVPE) (e.g., a positron), to ensure the safety and integrity of the network, the Parties’ employees and/or representatives, and the CLEC’s end-user customer. Therefore, any request by CLEC for a local loop UNE to a high voltage area will be submitted by CLEC to SBC MISSOURI. If CLEC requests that SBC MISSOURI provision the HVPE, CLEC shall be required to pay SBC MISSOURI on an ICB basis for the HVPE that is provisioned by SBC MISSOURI to CLEC in connection with the CLEC’s UNE loop order to the high voltage area. 4.3 Routine Network Modifications to UNE loops 4.3.1 SBC MISSOURI shall make routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities used by CLEC where the requested loop facility has already been constructed. SBC MISSOURI shall perform routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities in a nondiscriminatory fashion, without regard to whether the loop facility being accessed was constructed on behalf, or in accordance with the specifications, of any carrier. 4.3.2 A routine network modification is an activity that SBC MISSOURI regularly undertakes for its own customers. Routine network modifications include rearranging or splicing of cable; adding an equipment case; adding a doubler or repeater; adding a ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇; installing a repeater shelf; adding a line card; deploying a new multiplexer or reconfiguring an existing multiplexer; and attaching electronic and other equipment that SBC MISSOURI ordinarily attaches to a loop to activate such. Routine network modifications may entail activities such as accessing manholes, deploying bucket trucks to reach aerial cable, and installing equipment casings. Routine network modifications do not include the construction of a new loop, or the installation of new aerial or buried cable for a requesting telecommunications carrier, and SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for CLEC. 4.3.3 Routine network modifications do not include constructing new loops; installing new aerial or buried cable; splicing cable at any location other than an existing splice point or at any location where a splice enclosure is not already present; securing permits, rights-of-way, or building access arrangements; constructing and/or placing new manholes, handholes, poles, ducts or conduits; installing new terminals or terminal enclosure (e.g., controlled environmental vaults, huts, or cabinets); or providing new space or power for requesting carriers; or removing or reconfiguring packetized transmission facility. SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for a requesting telecommunications carrier. 4.3.4 SBC MISSOURI shall determine whether or how to perform routine network modifications using the same network or outside plant engineering principles that would be applied in providing service to SBC MISSOURI’s retail customers.

Local Loop. 4.1 Consistent with Section 2.1 of this Attachment UNE, SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall provide Unbundled Local Loop under the following terms and conditions. 4.2 Pursuant to applicable FCC rules, a local loop UNE is a dedicated transmission facility between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI AT&T Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an End User premises. Therefore, consistent with the applicable FCC rules, SBC MISSOURI AT&T will make available the UNE loops set forth herein below between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI AT&T Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an End User premises. The Parties acknowledge and agree that SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall not be obligated to provision any of the UNE loops provided for herein to cellular sitessites or to any other location that does not constitute an End User premises. Where applicable, the local loop includes all wire within multiple dwelling and tenant buildings and campuses that provides access to End User premises wiring, provided such wire is owned or and controlled by SBC MISSOURI. AT&T. The local loop UNE includes all features, functions and capabilities of the transmission facility, including attached electronics (except those electronics used for the provision of advanced services, such as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers), and line conditioning (subject to applicable charges in the Pricing Schedule). Local Loop UNE includes, but is not limited to copper loops (DS1two-wire and four-wire analog voice-grade copper loops, DS3digital copper loops [e.g., fiberDS0s and integrated services digital network lines]), as well as two-wire and other high capacity four-wire copper loops conditioned, at CLEC request and subject to charges, to transmit the extent required by applicable lawdigital signals needed to provide digital subscriber line services). Local Loop also includes UNE DS1 Digital Loops (where they have not been Declassified and subject to caps set forth in Section 4.4.4.5, below) and UNE DS3 Digital Loops (where they have not been Declassified and subject to caps set forth in Section 4.4.5.4, below), where such loops are deployed and available in SBC MISSOURI AT&T wire centers. CLEC agrees to operate each loop type within the technical descriptions and parameters accepted within the industry. In accordance with 47 C.F.R. 51.319(a)(9), SBC MISSOURI shall not engineer the transmission capabilities of its network in a manner, or engage in any policy, practice, or procedure, that disrupts or degrades access to a local loop or subloop, including the time division multiplexing-based features, functions and capabilities of a hybrid loop, for which a requesting telecommunications carrier may obtain or has obtained access pursuant to this agreement. 4.2.1 When a local loop UNE is ordered to a high voltage area, the Parties understand and agree that the local loop UNE will require a High Voltage Protective Equipment (HVPE) (e.g., a positron), to ensure the safety and integrity of the network, the Parties’ employees and/or representatives, and the CLEC’s end-user customer. Therefore, any request by CLEC for a local loop UNE to a high voltage area will be submitted by CLEC to SBC MISSOURI. AT&T. If CLEC requests that SBC MISSOURI AT&T provision the HVPE, CLEC shall be required to pay SBC MISSOURI AT&T on an ICB basis for the HVPE that is provisioned by SBC MISSOURI AT&T to CLEC in connection with the CLEC’s UNE loop order to the high voltage area. 4.3 Routine Network Modifications to UNE loops 4.3.1 SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall make routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities used by CLEC where the requested loop facility has already been constructed. SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall perform routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities in a nondiscriminatory fashion, without regard to whether the loop facility being accessed was constructed on behalf, or in accordance with the specifications, of any carrier. 4.3.2 A routine network modification is an activity that SBC MISSOURI AT&T regularly undertakes for its own customers. Routine network modifications include rearranging or splicing of cable; adding an equipment case; adding a doubler or repeater; adding a ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇; installing a repeater shelf; adding a line card; deploying a new multiplexer or reconfiguring an existing multiplexer; and attaching electronic and other equipment that SBC MISSOURI AT&T ordinarily attaches to a loop to activate suchsuch loops for its own customers. Routine network modifications may entail activities such as accessing manholes, deploying bucket trucks to reach aerial cable, and installing equipment casings. Routine network modifications do not include the construction of a new loop, or the installation of new aerial or buried cable for a requesting telecommunications carrierTelecommunications Carrier, and SBC MISSOURI AT&T is not obligated to perform those activities for CLEC. 4.3.3 Routine network modifications do not include constructing new loops; installing new aerial or buried cable; splicing cable at any location other than an existing splice point or at any location where a splice enclosure is not already present; securing permits, rights-of-way, or building access arrangements; constructing and/or placing new manholes, handholes, poles, ducts or conduits; installing new terminals or terminal enclosure (e.g., controlled environmental vaults, huts, or cabinets); or providing new space or power for requesting carriers; or removing or reconfiguring packetized transmission facility. SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for a requesting telecommunications carrier. 4.3.4 SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall determine whether or how to perform provide routine network modifications using at the same network or outside plant engineering principles that would rates, terms and conditions set out in this Attachment and in the Pricing Schedule. 4.4 The following types of local loop UNEs will be applied provided at the rates, terms, and conditions set out in providing service to SBC MISSOURI’s retail customers.this Attachment and in the Pricing Schedule:

Local Loop. 4.1 Consistent with Sections 1.3 and Section 2.1 2.0 of this Attachment 251(c)(3) UNE, SBC MISSOURI TEXAS shall provide Unbundled Local Loop under the following terms and conditionsconditions in this subsection. 4.2 Pursuant to applicable FCC rules, a local loop UNE is a dedicated transmission facility between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI TEXAS Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an premisesEnd User customer premises or a compatible interface device or NID on a SBC TEXAS owned or controlled telephone pole where the CLEC Radio Port connects with SBC TEXAS’ network. Therefore, consistent with A loop may also function as a UNE when used to provide Telecommunications Service to more than one CLEC Customer via a CLEC supplied radio port. The loop includes the applicable FCC rules, NID and may include the Inside Wire subloop in a multi-unit environment where the Inside Wire subloop is owned or controlled by SBC MISSOURI will make available the UNE loops set forth herein below between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an premisesTexas. The Parties acknowledge and agree that SBC MISSOURI shall a transmission facility to a CMRS facility does not have to be obligated to provision any of the UNE loops provided for herein to cellular sites. Where applicable, the local loop includes all wire within multiple dwelling and tenant buildings and campuses that provides access to End User premises wiring, provided such wire is owned or controlled by SBC MISSOURIunbundled. The local loop UNE includes all features, functions and capabilities of the transmission facility, including attached electronics (except those electronics used for the provision of advanced services, such as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers), and CLEC requested line conditioning Local Loop (subject to applicable charges in Appendix Pricing). The local loop UNE includes, but is not limited to (DS1, DS3, fiber, and other high capacity loops to the extent required by applicable law, and where such loops are deployed in SBC MISSOURI wire centers. CLEC agrees to operate each loop type within the technical descriptions and parameters accepted within the industry. In accordance with 47 C.F.R. 51.319(a)(9), SBC MISSOURI shall not engineer the transmission capabilities of its network in a manner, or engage in any policy, practice, or procedure, that disrupts or degrades access to a local loop or subloop, including the time division multiplexing-based features, functions and capabilities of a hybrid loop, for which a requesting telecommunications carrier may obtain or has obtained access pursuant to this agreement. 4.2.1 When a local loop UNE is ordered SBC TEXAS must provide timely access to a high voltage area, unbundled loops offered under the Parties understand and agree that the local loop UNE will require a High Voltage Protective Equipment (HVPE) (e.g., a positron), to ensure the safety and integrity terms of the network, the Partiesthis agreement. SBC TEXAS’ employees and/or representatives, and the CLEC’s end-user customer. Therefore, any request by CLEC for a local loop UNE to a high voltage area timeliness will be submitted measured as required by CLEC to SBC MISSOURI. If CLEC requests that SBC MISSOURI provision the HVPE, CLEC shall be required to pay SBC MISSOURI on an ICB basis for the HVPE that is provisioned by SBC MISSOURI to CLEC provisions in connection with the CLEC’s UNE loop order to the high voltage areaAttachment: Performance Measurements. 4.3 Routine Network Modifications SBC TEXAS shall provide at the rates, terms, and conditions set out in this Attachment and Attachment Pricing, the types of UNE loops in sections 4.3.1- 4.3.6. When CLEC orders an 251(c)(3) Unbundled loop, CLEC will be provided a termination on whatever demarcation device, if any, connects the loop to UNE loopsthe customer premises or a compatible interface device or NID on a SBC TEXAS owned or controlled telephone pole where the CLEC Radio Port connects with SBC TEXAS’ network, without additional charge. 4.3.1 The standard for 2-Wire analog loop is loss not exceeding 8 dB. SBC MISSOURI shall make routine network modifications will offer 2-Wire analog loop not to unbundled exceed 5dB as an option which supports analog voice frequency, voice band services with loop start signaling within the frequency spectrum of approximately 300 Hz and 3000 Hz. 4.3.2 The 4-Wire analog loop provides a non-signaling voice band frequency spectrum of approximately 300 Hz to 3000 Hz. The 4-Wire analog loop provides separate transmit and receive paths. 4.3.3 The 2-Wire 160 Kbps digital interface loop (ISDN-BRI) facilities transmission of digital signals at 160 Kbps and provides 2 B plus D channels. 4.3.4 Intentionally Left Blank. 4.3.5 A DS1 Digital Loop 1.544 Mbps digital interface loop facilities used by transmission of digital signals at 1.544 Mbps and terminates in a 4-wire electrical interface at both ends. 4.3.5.1 DS1 loops (where they have not been Declassified and subject to caps set forth in Section 4.3.6.2). However, notwithstanding this Section 4.3.5.1, access to 251(c)(3) UNEs is provided under this Agreement over such routes, technologies, and facilities as SBC TEXAS may elect at its own discretion. 4.3.6 DS1 UNE Digital Loops will be offered and/or provided only where such Loops have not been Declassified. 4.3.6.1 The procedures set forth below will apply in the event DS1 Digital Loops (DS1) are or have been Declassified. 4.3.6.2 DS1 Loop “Caps” SBC TEXAS is not obligated to provide to CLEC where the requested loop facility more than ten (10) DS1 251(c)(3) UNE loops per requesting carrier to any single building in which DS1 Loops have not been otherwise Declassified; accordingly, CLEC may not order or otherwise obtain, and CLEC will cease ordering 251(c)(3) Unbundled DS1 Loops once CLEC has already been constructedobtained ten DS1 251(c)(3) UNE Loops at the same building. If, notwithstanding this Section, CLEC submits such an order, at SBC TEXAS’ option it may accept the order, but convert any requested DS1 251(c)(3) UNE Loop(s) in excess of the cap to Special Access, and applicable Special Access charges will apply to CLEC for such DS1 UNE Loop(s) as of the date of provisioning. 4.3.7 Nothing in the loop definitions provided above is intended to limit CLEC from using UNE DSL loops to transmit signals in the ranges as specified in Attachment 25: DSL, which forms a part of this Agreement. SBC MISSOURI shall perform routine network modifications TEXAS agrees to unbundled loop facilities in a nondiscriminatory fashion, without regard provide CLEC with access to whether the loop facility being accessed was constructed on behalf, or UNEs for providing advanced services in accordance with the specificationsterms of Attachment DSL, UNE Line Splitting, and the general terms and conditions applicable to UNEs (Sections 2.0 - 2.24.11, supra). 4.3.8 CLEC may request and, to the extent technically feasible, SBC TEXAS will provide additional loop types and conditioning pursuant to the BFR process. The availability of a loop type through the BFR process does not limit the availability to CLEC of equivalent functionality that are available to CLEC and priced under this Agreement. 4.3.9 When CLEC owns or manages its own switch and requests an unbundled 251(c)(3) Unbundled loop to be terminated on CLEC’s switch and the requested loop is currently serviced by SBC TEXAS’ Integrated Digital Loop Carrier (IDLC) or Remote Switching technology acting in a pair gain application. SBC TEXAS will, where available, move the requested unbundled 251(c)(3) loop to a spare, existing physical or a universal digital loop carrier unbundled 251(c)(3) loop at no additional charge to CLEC. If, however, no spare unbundled 251(c)(3) Unbundled loop is available, SBC TEXAS will within forty-eight (48) hours, excluding weekends and holidays, of any carrierCLEC’s request notify CLEC of the lack of available facilities. CLEC may request alternative arrangements through the BFR process. 4.3.2 A routine network modification is an activity that SBC MISSOURI regularly undertakes for its own customers. Routine network modifications include rearranging or splicing of cable; adding an equipment case; adding a doubler or repeater; adding a ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇; installing a repeater shelf; adding a line card; deploying a new multiplexer or reconfiguring an existing multiplexer; and attaching electronic and other equipment that SBC MISSOURI ordinarily attaches to a loop to activate such. Routine network modifications may entail activities such as accessing manholes, deploying bucket trucks to reach aerial cable, and installing equipment casings. Routine network modifications do not include the construction of a new loop, or the installation of new aerial or buried cable for a requesting telecommunications carrier, and SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for CLEC. 4.3.3 Routine network modifications do not include constructing new loops; installing new aerial or buried cable; splicing cable at any location other than an existing splice point or at any location where a splice enclosure is not already present; securing permits, rights-of-way, or building access arrangements; constructing and/or placing new manholes, handholes, poles, ducts or conduits; installing new terminals or terminal enclosure (e.g., controlled environmental vaults, huts, or cabinets); or providing new space or power for requesting carriers; or removing or reconfiguring packetized transmission facility. SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for a requesting telecommunications carrier. 4.3.4 SBC MISSOURI shall determine whether or how to perform routine network modifications using the same network or outside plant engineering principles that would be applied in providing service to SBC MISSOURI’s retail customers.

Local Loop. 4.1 Consistent with Section 2.1 of this Attachment UNE, SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall provide Unbundled Local Loop under the following terms and conditions. 4.2 Pursuant to applicable FCC rules, a local loop UNE is a dedicated transmission facility between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI AT&T Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an End User premises. Therefore, consistent with the applicable FCC rules, SBC MISSOURI AT&T will make available the UNE loops set forth herein below between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI AT&T Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an End User premises. The Parties acknowledge and agree that SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall not be obligated to provision any of the UNE loops provided for herein to cellular sitessites or to any other location that does not constitute an End User premises. Where applicable, the local loop includes all wire within multiple dwelling and tenant buildings and campuses that provides access to End User premises wiring, provided such wire is owned or and controlled by SBC MISSOURI. AT&T. The local loop UNE includes all features, functions and capabilities of the transmission facility, including attached electronics (except those electronics used for the provision of advanced services, such as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers), and line conditioning (subject to applicable charges in the Pricing Schedule). Local Loop UNE includes, but is not limited to copper loops (DS1two-wire and four-wire analog voice-grade copper loops, DS3digital copper loops [e.g., fiberDS0s and integrated services digital network lines]), as well as two-wire and other high capacity four-wire copper loops conditioned, at CLEC request and subject to charges, to transmit the extent required by applicable lawdigital signals needed to provide digital subscriber line services). Local Loop also includes UNE DS1 Digital Loops (where they have not been Declassified and subject to caps set forth in Section 4.4.4.5, below) and UNE DS3 Digital Loops (where they have not been Declassified and subject to caps set forth in Section 4.4.5.4, below), where such loops are deployed and available in SBC MISSOURI AT&T wire centers. CLEC agrees to operate each loop type within the technical descriptions and parameters accepted within the industry. In accordance with 47 C.F.R. 51.319(a)(9), SBC MISSOURI shall not engineer the transmission capabilities of its network in a manner, or engage in any policy, practice, or procedure, that disrupts or degrades access to a local loop or subloop, including the time division multiplexing-based features, functions and capabilities of a hybrid loop, for which a requesting telecommunications carrier may obtain or has obtained access pursuant to this agreement. 4.2.1 When a local loop UNE is ordered to a high voltage area, the Parties understand and agree that the local loop UNE will require a High Voltage Protective Equipment (HVPE) (e.g., a positron), to ensure the safety and integrity of the network, the Parties’ employees and/or representatives, and the CLEC’s end-user customer. Therefore, any request by CLEC for a local loop UNE to a high voltage area will be submitted by CLEC to SBC MISSOURI. If CLEC requests that SBC MISSOURI provision the HVPE, CLEC shall be required to pay SBC MISSOURI on an ICB basis for the HVPE that is provisioned by SBC MISSOURI to CLEC in connection with the CLEC’s UNE loop order to the high voltage area. 4.3 Routine Network Modifications to UNE loops 4.3.1 SBC MISSOURI shall make routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities used by CLEC where the requested loop facility has already been constructed. SBC MISSOURI shall perform routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities in a nondiscriminatory fashion, without regard to whether the loop facility being accessed was constructed on behalf, or in accordance with the specifications, of any carrier. 4.3.2 A routine network modification is an activity that SBC MISSOURI regularly undertakes for its own customers. Routine network modifications include rearranging or splicing of cable; adding an equipment case; adding a doubler or repeater; adding a ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇; installing a repeater shelf; adding a line card; deploying a new multiplexer or reconfiguring an existing multiplexer; and attaching electronic and other equipment that SBC MISSOURI ordinarily attaches to a loop to activate such. Routine network modifications may entail activities such as accessing manholes, deploying bucket trucks to reach aerial cable, and installing equipment casings. Routine network modifications do not include the construction of a new loop, or the installation of new aerial or buried cable for a requesting telecommunications carrier, and SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for CLEC. 4.3.3 Routine network modifications do not include constructing new loops; installing new aerial or buried cable; splicing cable at any location other than an existing splice point or at any location where a splice enclosure is not already present; securing permits, rights-of-way, or building access arrangements; constructing and/or placing new manholes, handholes, poles, ducts or conduits; installing new terminals or terminal enclosure (e.g., controlled environmental vaults, huts, or cabinets); or providing new space or power for requesting carriers; or removing or reconfiguring packetized transmission facility. SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for a requesting telecommunications carrier. 4.3.4 SBC MISSOURI shall determine whether or how to perform routine network modifications using the same network or outside plant engineering principles that would be applied in providing service to SBC MISSOURI’s retail customers.

Local Loop. 4.1 Consistent with Section 2.1 of this Attachment UNE, SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall provide Unbundled Local Loop under the following terms and conditions. 4.2 Pursuant to applicable FCC rules, a local loop UNE is a dedicated transmission facility between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI AT&T Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an End User premises. Therefore, consistent with the applicable FCC rules, SBC MISSOURI AT&T will make available the UNE loops set forth herein below between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI AT&T Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an End User premises. The Parties acknowledge and agree that SBC MISSOURI AT&T shall not be obligated to provision any of the UNE loops provided for herein to cellular sitessites or to any other location that does not constitute an End User premises. Where applicable, the local loop includes all wire within multiple dwelling and tenant buildings and campuses that provides access to End User premises wiring, provided such wire is owned or and controlled by SBC MISSOURI. AT&T. The local loop UNE includes all features, functions and capabilities of the transmission facility, including attached electronics (except those electronics used for the provision of advanced services, such as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers), and line conditioning (subject to applicable charges in the Pricing Schedule). Local Loop UNE includes, but is not limited to copper loops (DS1two-wire and four-wire analog voice-grade copper loops, DS3digital copper loops [e.g., fiberDS0s and integrated services digital network lines]), as well as two-wire and other high capacity four-wire copper loops conditioned, at CLEC request and subject to charges, to transmit the extent required by applicable lawdigital signals needed to provide digital subscriber line services). Local Loop also includes UNE DS1 Digital Loops (where they have not been Declassified and subject to caps set forth in Section 4.4.4.5, below) and UNE DS3 Digital Loops (where they have not been Declassified and subject to caps set forth in Section 4.4.5.4, below), where such loops are deployed and available in SBC MISSOURI AT&T wire centers. CLEC agrees to operate each loop type within the technical descriptions and parameters accepted within the industry. In accordance with 47 C.F.R. 51.319(a)(9), SBC MISSOURI shall not engineer the transmission capabilities of its network in a manner, or engage in any policy, practice, or procedure, that disrupts or degrades access to a local loop or subloop, including the time division multiplexing-based features, functions and capabilities of a hybrid loop, for which a requesting telecommunications carrier may obtain or has obtained access pursuant to this agreement. 4.2.1 When a local loop UNE is ordered to a high voltage area, the Parties understand and agree that the local loop UNE will require a High Voltage Protective Equipment (HVPE) (e.g., a positron), to ensure the safety and integrity of the network, the Parties’ employees and/or representatives, and the CLEC’s end-user customer. Therefore, any request by CLEC for a local loop UNE to a high voltage area will be submitted by CLEC to SBC MISSOURI. If CLEC requests that SBC MISSOURI provision the HVPE, CLEC shall be required to pay SBC MISSOURI on an ICB basis for the HVPE that is provisioned by SBC MISSOURI to CLEC in connection with the CLEC’s UNE loop order to the high voltage area. 4.3 Routine Network Modifications to UNE loops 4.3.1 SBC MISSOURI shall make routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities used by CLEC where the requested loop facility has already been constructed. SBC MISSOURI shall perform routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities in a nondiscriminatory fashion, without regard to whether the loop facility being accessed was constructed on behalf, or in accordance with the specifications, of any carrier. 4.3.2 A routine network modification is an activity that SBC MISSOURI regularly undertakes for its own customers. Routine network modifications include rearranging or splicing of cable; adding an equipment case; adding a doubler or repeater; adding a ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇; installing a repeater shelf; adding a line card; deploying a new multiplexer or reconfiguring an existing multiplexer; and attaching electronic and other equipment that SBC MISSOURI ordinarily attaches to a loop to activate such. Routine network modifications may entail activities such as accessing manholes, deploying bucket trucks to reach aerial cable, and installing equipment casings. Routine network modifications do not include the construction of a new loop, or the installation of new aerial or buried cable for a requesting telecommunications carrier, and SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for CLEC. 4.3.3 Routine network modifications do not include constructing new loops; installing new aerial or buried cable; splicing cable at any location other than an existing splice point or at any location where a splice enclosure is not already present; securing permits, rights-of-way, or building access arrangements; constructing and/or placing new manholes, handholes, poles, ducts or conduits; installing new terminals or terminal enclosure (e.g., controlled environmental vaults, huts, or cabinets); or providing new space or power for requesting carriers; or removing or reconfiguring packetized transmission facility. SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for a requesting telecommunications carrier. 4.3.4 SBC MISSOURI shall determine whether or how to perform routine network modifications using the same network or outside plant engineering principles that would be applied in providing service to SBC MISSOURI’s retail customers.

Local Loop. 4.1 Consistent with Section 2.1 of this Attachment Article UNE, SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel shall provide Unbundled Local Loop under the following terms and conditions. 4.2 Pursuant to applicable FCC rules, a local loop UNE is a dedicated transmission facility between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI a CenturyTel Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an premises. Therefore, consistent with the applicable FCC rules, SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel will make available the UNE loops set forth herein below between a distribution frame (or its equivalent) in an SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel Central Office and the loop demarcation point at an End Users premises. The Parties acknowledge and agree that SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel shall not be obligated to provision any of the UNE loops provided for herein to cellular sites. Where applicable, the local loop includes all wire within multiple dwelling and tenant buildings and campuses that provides access to End User premises wiring, provided such wire is owned or controlled by SBC MISSOURICenturyTel. The local loop UNE includes all features, functions and capabilities of the transmission facility, including attached electronics (except those electronics used for the provision of advanced services, such as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers), and line conditioning Local Loop UNE includes, but is not limited to (DS1, DS3, fiber, and other high capacity loops to the extent required by applicable law, and where such loops are deployed in SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel wire centers. CLEC Socket agrees to operate each loop type within the technical descriptions and parameters accepted within the industry. In accordance with 47 C.F.R. 51.319(a)(9), SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel shall not engineer the transmission capabilities of its network in a manner, or engage in any policy, practice, or procedure, that disrupts or degrades access to a local loop or subloop, including the time division multiplexing-based features, functions and capabilities of a hybrid loop, for which a requesting telecommunications carrier may obtain or has obtained access pursuant to this agreement. 4.2.1 When a local loop UNE is ordered to a high voltage area, the Parties understand and agree that the local loop UNE will require a High Voltage Protective Equipment (HVPE) (e.g., a positron), to ensure the safety and integrity of the network, the Parties’ employees and/or representatives, and the CLECSocket’s end-user customer. Therefore, any request by CLEC Socket for a local loop UNE to a high voltage area will be submitted by CLEC Socket to SBC MISSOURICenturyTel. If CLEC Socket requests that SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel provision the HVPE, CLEC Socket shall be required to pay SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel on an ICB basis for the HVPE that is provisioned by SBC MISSOURI CenturyTel to CLEC Socket in connection with the CLECSocket’s UNE loop order to the high voltage area. 4.3 Routine Network Modifications to UNE loops 4.3.1 SBC MISSOURI shall make routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities used by CLEC where the requested loop facility has already been constructed. SBC MISSOURI shall perform routine network modifications to unbundled loop facilities in a nondiscriminatory fashion, without regard to whether the loop facility being accessed was constructed on behalf, or in accordance with the specifications, of any carrier. 4.3.2 A routine network modification is an activity that SBC MISSOURI regularly undertakes for its own customers. Routine network modifications include rearranging or splicing of cable; adding an equipment case; adding a doubler or repeater; adding a ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇; installing a repeater shelf; adding a line card; deploying a new multiplexer or reconfiguring an existing multiplexer; and attaching electronic and other equipment that SBC MISSOURI ordinarily attaches to a loop to activate such. Routine network modifications may entail activities such as accessing manholes, deploying bucket trucks to reach aerial cable, and installing equipment casings. Routine network modifications do not include the construction of a new loop, or the installation of new aerial or buried cable for a requesting telecommunications carrier, and SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for CLEC. 4.3.3 Routine network modifications do not include constructing new loops; installing new aerial or buried cable; splicing cable at any location other than an existing splice point or at any location where a splice enclosure is not already present; securing permits, rights-of-way, or building access arrangements; constructing and/or placing new manholes, handholes, poles, ducts or conduits; installing new terminals or terminal enclosure (e.g., controlled environmental vaults, huts, or cabinets); or providing new space or power for requesting carriers; or removing or reconfiguring packetized transmission facility. SBC MISSOURI is not obligated to perform those activities for a requesting telecommunications carrier. 4.3.4 SBC MISSOURI shall determine whether or how to perform routine network modifications using the same network or outside plant engineering principles that would be applied in providing service to SBC MISSOURI’s retail customers.