Common use of Unbundled Copper Loop – Designed (UCL Clause in Contracts

Unbundled Copper Loop – Designed (UCL. D) The UCL-D will be provisioned as a dry copper twisted pair (2-wire or 4-wire) Loop that is unencumbered by any intervening equipment (e.g., filters, load coils, range extenders, digital loop carrier, or repeaters). 2.14.1.1 A UCL-D will be eighteen thousand (18,000) feet or less in length and is provisioned according to Resistance Design parameters, may have up to six thousand (6,000) feet of bridged tap and will have up to thirteen hundred (1300) Ohms of resistance. 2.14.1.2 The UCL-D is a designed circuit, is provisioned with a test point, and comes standard with a DLR. OC is a chargeable option for a UCL-D; however, OC is always required on UCLs where a reuse of existing facilities has been requested by TWTC. 2.14.1.3 These Loops are not intended to support any particular services and may be utilized by TWTC to provide a wide-range of telecommunications services as long as those services do not adversely affect AT&T’s network. This facility will include a Network Interface Device (NID) at the customer’s location for the purpose of connecting the Loop to the customer’s inside wire.