Common use of Call Termination Clause in Contracts

Call Termination. 5.4.1.1.1 The Parties agree that call termination rates as described in Appendix A will apply reciprocally for the termination of EAS/Local traffic per minute of use. The Parties agree to perform monthly joint traffic audits, based upon mutually agreeable measurement criteria and auditing standards. There will be no reciprocal compensation for the initial four months of traffic exchange. 5.4.1.1.2 For traffic terminated at a USWC or Teligent end office, the end office call termination rate in Appendix A shall apply. 5.4.1.1.3 For traffic terminated at a USWC or Teligent tandem switch, the tandem switched rate and the tandem transmission rate in Appendix A shall apply in addition to the end office call termination rate described above. 5.4.1.1.4 The Parties acknowledge that Teligent will initially serve all of its end users within a given LATA through a single Teligent switch. The Parties also acknowledge that Teligent may, in the future, deploy additional switches in each LATA. For purposes of call termination, the initial Teligent switch shall be treated in accordance with its functionality as either a tandem or end office switch, and USWC will treat Teligent tandem switches based on the criteria defined by the appropriate state Commission. In the absence of a state commission criteria, USWC's reasonable and nondiscriminatory criteria will prevail. 5.4.1.1.5 Neither Party shall be responsible to the other for call termination charges associated with third party traffic that transits such Party’s network, provided that such Party does not seek to recover call transport and termination charges, encompassed within any transit charges applied to the third party, attributable to the other’s transport and termination of the third party’s traffic. USWC will not block traffic originated from a third party LEC that is transited across USWC facilities and terminated to Teligent. There are three types of transit traffic: Local transit: Each party is responsible for collecting the appropriate charges from the originating company. If the transiting party collects any charges associated with the transit of the originating company’s traffic across Terminating party’s network; the transiting party shall pay the appropriate charges due to the terminating party. IntraLATA Toll transit: Each party is responsible for collecting the appropriate charges from the originating company. Where USWC is the designated IntraLATA Toll provider for existing LECs, USWC will act as the originating company. Jointly Provided Switched Access: The Parties will use industry standards developed to handle the provision and billing of jointly provided switched access (MECAB, MECOD, and the Parties’ FCC and state access Tariffs). Each Party will ▇▇▇▇ the IXC the appropriate portion of its Switched Access rates. USWC will also provide the one-time notification to Teligent of the billing name, billing address and carrier identification codes of the IXCs subtending any access tandems to which Teligent directly connects. This type of traffic is discussed separately in this Section.

Call Termination. 5.4.1.1.1 The Parties agree that call termination rates as described in Appendix A will apply reciprocally for the termination of EAS/Local traffic per minute of use. The Parties agree to perform monthly joint traffic audits, based upon mutually agreeable measurement criteria and auditing standards. There will be no reciprocal compensation for the initial four months of traffic exchange. 5.4.1.1.2 For traffic terminated at a USWC or Teligent Pac-West end office, the end office call termination rate in Appendix A shall apply. 5.4.1.1.3 For traffic terminated at a USWC or Teligent Pac-West tandem switch, the tandem switched rate and the tandem transmission rate in Appendix A shall apply in addition to the end office call termination rate described above. 5.4.1.1.4 The Parties acknowledge that Teligent Pac-West will initially serve all of its end users within a given LATA through a single Teligent Pac-West switch. The Parties also acknowledge that Teligent Pac-West may, in the future, deploy additional switches in each LATA. For purposes of call termination, the initial Teligent Pac-West switch shall be treated in accordance with its functionality as either a tandem or end office switch, and USWC will treat Teligent Pac- West tandem switches based on the criteria defined by the appropriate state Commission. In the absence of a state commission criteria, USWC's reasonable and nondiscriminatory criteria will prevail. 5.4.1.1.5 Neither Party shall be responsible to the other for call termination charges associated with third party traffic that transits such Party’s 's network, provided that such Party does not seek to recover call transport and termination charges, encompassed within any transit charges applied to the third party, attributable to the other’s 's transport and termination of the third party’s 's traffic. USWC will not block traffic originated from a third party LEC that is transited across USWC facilities and terminated to TeligentPac-West. There are three types of transit traffic: Local transit: Each party is responsible for collecting the appropriate charges from the originating company. If the transiting party collects any charges associated with the transit of the originating company’s 's traffic across Terminating party’s 's network; the transiting party shall pay the appropriate charges due to the terminating party. IntraLATA Toll transit: Each party is responsible for collecting the appropriate charges from the originating company. Where USWC is the designated IntraLATA Toll provider for existing LECs, USWC will act as the originating company. Jointly Provided Switched Access: The Parties will use industry standards developed to handle the provision and billing of jointly provided switched access (MECAB, MECOD, and the Parties’ FCC and state access Tariffs). Each Party will ▇▇▇▇ the IXC the appropriate portion of its Switched Access rates. USWC will also provide the one-time notification to Teligent of the billing name, billing address and carrier identification codes of the IXCs subtending any access tandems to which Teligent directly connects. This type of traffic is discussed separately in this Section.