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Each Party shall calculate terminating interconnection minutes of use based on standard AMA recordings made within each Party\u2019s network, these recordings being necessary for each Party to generate bills to the other Party. In the event either Party cannot measure minutes terminating on its network where technically feasible, the other Party shall provide the measuring mechanism or the Parties shall otherwise agree on an alternate arrangement.\n59.2. Measurement of minutes of use over Local Interconnection trunk groups shall be in actual conversation seconds. The total conversation seconds over each individual Local Interconnection trunk group will be totaled for the entire monthly \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 period and then rounded to the next whole minute.\n59.3. Prior to the commencement of billing for interconnection, each Party shall provide to the other, the PLU of the traffic terminated to each other over the Local Interconnection trunk groups.\n59.3.1. 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Each Party shall calculate terminating interconnection minutes of use based on standard AMA recordings made within each Party\u2019s network, these recordings being necessary for each Party to generate bills to the other Party. In the event either Party cannot measure minutes terminating on its network where technically feasible, the other Party shall provide the measuring mechanism or the Parties shall otherwise agree on an alternate arrangement.\n64.2. Measurement of minutes of use over Local Interconnection trunk groups shall be in actual conversation seconds. The total conversation seconds over each individual Local Interconnection trunk group will be totaled for the entire monthly \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 period and then rounded to the next whole minute.\n64.3. 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The total conversation seconds over each individual Local Interconnection trunk group will be totaled for the entire monthly \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587-round and then rounded to the next whole minute; and\n14.1.3 within twenty (20) calendar days after the end of each quarter (commencing with the first full quarter after the Effective Date of this Agreement), a usage report with the total traffic volume described in terms of minutes and messages and by call type (i.e., local, toll, and other) terminated to each other over SS7 local interconnection trunk groups.", "samples": [{"hash": "kgOUCyVMaoh", "uri": "/contracts/kgOUCyVMaoh#usage-measurement", "label": "Local Wireline Network Interconnection and Service Resale Agreement (Pac-West Telecomm Inc)", "score": 18.0, "published": true}], "snippet_links": [{"key": "when-applicable", "type": "clause", "offset": [5, 20]}, {"key": "each-party", "type": "clause", "offset": [22, 32]}, {"key": "to-generate", "type": "definition", "offset": [98, 109]}, {"key": "other-party", "type": "clause", "offset": [123, 134]}, {"key": "measurement-of", "type": "clause", "offset": [143, 157]}, {"key": "minutes-of-use", "type": "definition", "offset": [158, 172]}, {"key": "local-interconnection-trunk-groups", "type": "definition", "offset": [178, 212]}, {"key": "the-total", "type": "clause", "offset": [245, 254]}, {"key": "rounded-to", "type": "clause", "offset": [390, 400]}, {"key": "days-after", "type": "definition", "offset": [463, 473]}, {"key": "commencing-with-the", "type": "clause", "offset": [499, 518]}, {"key": "full-quarter", "type": "definition", "offset": [525, 537]}, {"key": "effective-date-of-this-agreement", "type": "clause", "offset": [548, 580]}, {"key": "usage-report", "type": "definition", "offset": [585, 597]}, {"key": "traffic-volume", "type": "clause", "offset": [613, 627]}, {"key": "terms-of", "type": "definition", "offset": [641, 649]}, {"key": "call-type", "type": "definition", "offset": [678, 687]}], "hash": "a8e9b75845ef94619fdfdf9d2001400a", "id": 9}, {"size": 2, "snippet": "7.1 Each Party shall calculate terminating interconnection minutes of use based on standard Automatic Message Accounting (\u201cAMA\u201d) recordings made within each Party\u2019s network, these recordings being necessary for each Party to generate bills to the other Party.\n7.2 Measurement of minutes of use over local interconnection trunk groups shall be in actual conversation seconds. The total conversation seconds over each individual local interconnection trunk group will be totaled for the entire monthly \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 period and then rounded to the next whole minute. For billing purposes and to the extent technically feasible, each Party shall pass calling party number (\u201cCPN\u201d) information on each call carried over the traffic exchange trunks at such time as the originating switch is equipped for SS7 and from all switches no later than December 31, 1998. If it is not technically feasible for a Party to pass CPN on each call carried over the traffic exchange trunks, such Party shall pass other number information that is associated with the same Rate Center as the CPN for the call. 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