Requesting Carrier’s Combination of Network Elements. IX.3.1 Ameritech shall provide Requesting Carrier access to Network Elements in a manner that shall allow Requesting Carrier to combine such Network Elements to provide a Telecommunications Service. Ameritech shall provide Requesting Carrier with access to all features and capabilities of each individual Network Element that Requesting Carrier combines in the same manner and subject to the same technical and interface requirements that Ameritech provides when such Network Elements are provided to Requesting Carrier on an individual basis.
Requesting Carrier’s Combination of Network Elements. 9.3.1 Ameritech shall provide Requesting Carrier access to Network Elements via Collocation or any technically feasible method pursuant to 2.2 in a manner that shall allow Requesting Carrier to combine such Network Elements to provide a Telecommunications Service. Ameritech shall provide Requesting Carrier with access to all features and capabilities of each individual Network Element that Requesting Carrier combines in the same manner and subject to the same technical and interface requirements that Ameritech provides when such Network Elements are provided to Requesting Carrier on an individual basis.
9.3.2 Requesting Carrier, and not Ameritech, is responsible for performing the functions necessary to combine the unbundled Network Elements it requests from Ameritech. Requesting Carrier shall not combine unbundled Network Elements in a manner that will impair the ability of other Telecommunications Carriers to obtain access to unbundled Network Elements or to Interconnect with Ameritech’s network.
