Common use of Protective Maintenance Clause in Contracts

Protective Maintenance. 12.3.10.1 CenturyLink will perform scheduled maintenance of substantially the same type and quality to that which it provides to itself, its End User Customers, its Affiliates, or any other party. 12.3.10.2 CenturyLink will work cooperatively with CLEC to develop industry-wide processes to provide as much notice as possible to CLEC of pending maintenance activity. CenturyLink shall provide notice of potentially CLEC Customer impacting maintenance activity, to the extent CenturyLink can determine such impact, and negotiate mutually agreeable dates with CLEC in substantially the same time and manner as it does for itself, its End User Customers, its Affiliates, or any other party. 12.3.10.3 CenturyLink shall advise CLEC of non-scheduled maintenance, testing, monitoring, and surveillance activity to be performed by CenturyLink on any services, including, to the extent CenturyLink can determine, any hardware, equipment, software, or system providing service functionality which may potentially impact CLEC and/or CLEC End User Customers. CenturyLink shall provide the maximum advance notice of such non-scheduled maintenance and testing activity possible, under the circumstances; provided, however, that CenturyLink shall provide emergency maintenance as promptly as possible to maintain or restore service and shall advise CLEC promptly of any such actions it takes.