Common use of Access to NID Clause in Contracts

Access to NID. 2.7.3.1 MCI may access the premises wiring (wiring that is beyond the BellSouth point of demarcation and is not owned or controlled by BellSouth) by any of the following means and MCI shall not disturb the existing form of electrical protection and shall maintain the physical integrity of the NID: 2.7.3.1.1 BellSouth shall allow MCI to connect its Loops directly to BellSouth’s multi-line NID enclosures that have additional space and are not used by BellSouth or any other telecommunications carriers to provide service to the premises. If sufficient NID terminations are not available, BellSouth shall install a NID at MCI’s request. 2.7.3.1.2 Where an adequate length of the premises wiring is present and environmental conditions permit, either Party may remove the premises wiring from the other Party’s NID and connect such wiring to that Party’s own NID, provided that the Party moving the premise wiring has been authorized by the ordering party to provide service using such wiring; 2.7.3.1.3 Either Party may enter the subscriber access chamber or dual chamber NID enclosures for the purpose of extending a cross-connect or spliced jumper wire from the premises wiring through a suitable “punch-out” hole of such NID enclosures; or 2.7.3.1.4 MCI may request BellSouth to make other rearrangements to the premises wiring terminations or terminal enclosure on a time and materials cost basis; or 2.7.3.1.5 Because BellSouth has no proprietary interest in the premises wiring, MCI may access the premises wiring in any other manner acceptable to the ordering party, so long as such access is made completely on the ordering party’s interface side of the NID and beyond BellSouth’s point of demarcation.

Access to NID. ‌‌‌‌ 2.7.3.1 MCI may access the premises wiring (wiring that is beyond the BellSouth point of demarcation and is not owned or controlled by BellSouth) by any of the following means and MCI shall not disturb the existing form of electrical protection and shall maintain the physical integrity of the NID: 2.7.3.1.1 BellSouth shall allow MCI to connect its Loops directly to BellSouth’s multi-line NID enclosures that have additional space and are not used by BellSouth or any other telecommunications carriers to provide service to the premises. If sufficient NID terminations are not available, BellSouth shall install a NID at MCI’s request. 2.7.3.1.2 Where an adequate length of the premises wiring is present and environmental conditions permit, either Party may remove the premises wiring from the other Party’s NID and connect such wiring to that Party’s own NID, provided that the Party moving the premise wiring has been authorized by the ordering party to provide service using such wiring; 2.7.3.1.3 Either Party may enter the subscriber access chamber or dual chamber NID enclosures for the purpose of extending a cross-connect or spliced jumper wire from the premises wiring through a suitable “punch-out” hole of such NID enclosures; or 2.7.3.1.4 MCI may request BellSouth to make other rearrangements to the premises wiring terminations or terminal enclosure on a time and materials cost basis; or 2.7.3.1.5 Because BellSouth has no proprietary interest in the premises wiring, MCI may access the premises wiring in any other manner acceptable to the ordering party, so long as such access is made completely on the ordering party’s interface side of the NID and beyond BellSouth’s point of demarcation. 2.7.3.2 In no case shall either Party remove or disconnect the other Party’s Loop facilities from either Party’s NIDs, enclosures, or protectors unless the applicable Commission has expressly permitted the same and the disconnecting Party provides prior notice to the other Party. In such cases, it shall be the responsibility of the Party disconnecting Loop facilities to leave undisturbed the existing form of electrical protection and to maintain the physical integrity of the NID. It will be the removing Party’s responsibility to ensure there is no safety hazard, and the removing Party shall hold the other Party harmless for any liability associated with the removal of the other Party’s Loop from the NID. Furthermore, it shall be the responsibility of the removing Party, once the other Party’s Loop has been disconnected from the NID, to reconnect the disconnected Loop to a nationally recognized testing laboratory listed station protector, which has been grounded as per Article 800 of the National Electrical Code. If no spare station protector exists in the NID, the disconnected Loop must be appropriately cleared, capped and stored. 2.7.3.3 MCI shall not remove or disconnect ground wires from BellSouth’s NIDs, enclosures, or protectors. 2.7.3.4 MCI shall not remove or disconnect NID modules, protectors, or terminals from BellSouth’s NID enclosures. 2.7.3.5 Due to the wide variety of NID enclosures and outside plant environments, BellSouth will work with MCI to develop specific procedures to establish the most effective means of implementing this Section if the procedures set forth herein do not apply to the NID in question.