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Miscellaneous Notes. 1. The Qwest termination rate under the single-tiered interconnection structure set forth above is intended to be a Local Traffic termination rate for Interconnection to the Qwest-IP within each LATA that is reciprocal and equal to the actual rates that will be charged by BA to Qwest under the two-tiered Local Traffic termination rate structure described above that will apply after the first anniversary of the Effective Date. The single Qwest termination rate is also intended to provide financial incentives to Qwest to deliver traffic directly to BA’s terminating End Offices once Qwest’s traffic volumes reach an appropriate threshold. BA-PA/Qwest 2 In accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Agreement, the Parties shall make their best efforts to meet the following initial Milestones no later than the listed Dates. LATA LATA Start Date TBD SS7 Certification, Collocation, Operator Services/DA Facilities, and NXX(s) Applied For TBD Parties Agree on Trunking Arrangements for Traffic Exchange TBD Valid Access Service Request(s) (“ASRs”) for Traffic Exchange Trunk Groups and Routing Information Received by BA TBD Valid Orders for 911 Facilities Received by BA TBD All Trunks (Traffic Exchange, Operator Services/DA, 911) Tested and Turned Up TBD SS7 Certification Achieved; 1 Collocation Arrangements Complete for Trunk Interconnection and Access to Network Elements TBD Arrangements for Alternate-Billed Calls Agreed Upon TBD Call-through Testing Completed; “Interconnection Activation Date” TBD Failure of a Party or the Parties to meet an earlier Milestone Date shall not relieve either Party of the responsibility to make its best efforts to meet subsequent Milestone Date(s) in the LATA, unless, and only to the extent that, the subsequent Milestone Date(s) depend on the timely completion of such earlier Milestone Date. For purposes of Section 3, (i) business Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “fully operational” in a LATA in Pennsylvania when Qwest has an effective Tariff for business Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania and a significant number of Telephone Exchange Service Customer lines in service for business Telephone Exchange Service Customers in that LATA in Pennsylvania that are not affiliates or employees of either BA or Qwest, and (ii) residential Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “fully operational” in a LATA in Pennsylvania when Qwest has an effective Tariff for residential Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania and has a 1 SS7 certification scheduling depends on actual schedule availability at time of request. Initial implementation will be multi-frequency until SS7 certification is achieved.

Miscellaneous Notes. 1. The Qwest HarvardNet termination rate under the single-tiered interconnection structure set forth above is intended to be a Local Traffic termination rate for Interconnection to the QwestHarvardNet-IP within each LATA that is reciprocal and equal to the actual rates that will be charged by BA to Qwest HarvardNet under the two-tiered Local Traffic termination rate structure described above that will apply after the first anniversary of the Effective Date. The single Qwest HarvardNet termination rate is also intended to provide financial incentives to Qwest HarvardNet to deliver traffic directly to BA’s 's terminating End Offices once Qwest’s HarvardNet's traffic volumes reach an appropriate threshold. BA-PA/Qwest 2 SCHEDULE 3.0 INITIAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE FOR PENNSYLVANIA In accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Agreement, the Parties shall make their best efforts to meet the following initial Milestones no later than the listed Dates. LATA LATA Start Date . (1) TBD SS7 Certification, Collocation, Operator Services/DA Facilities, and NXX(s) Applied For TBD Parties Agree on Trunking Arrangements for Traffic Exchange TBD Valid Access Service Request(s) (“ASRs”) for Traffic Exchange Trunk Groups and Routing Information Received by BA TBD Valid Orders for 911 Facilities Received by BA TBD All Trunks (Traffic Exchange, Operator Services/DA, 911) Tested and Turned Up TBD SS7 Certification Achieved; 1 Collocation Arrangements Complete for Trunk Interconnection and Access to Network Elements TBD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arrangements for Alternate-Billed Calls TBD Agreed Upon TBD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call-through Testing Completed; “TBD "Interconnection Activation Date” TBD " ================================================================================ Failure of a Party or the Parties to meet an earlier Milestone Date shall not relieve either Party of the responsibility to make its best efforts to meet subsequent Milestone Date(s) in the LATA, unless, and only to the extent that, the subsequent Milestone Date(s) depend on the timely completion of such earlier Milestone Date. For purposes of Section 3, (i) business Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “"fully operational” " in a LATA in Pennsylvania when Qwest Covad has an effective Tariff for business Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania and a significant number of Telephone Exchange Service Customer lines in service for business Telephone Exchange Service Customers in that LATA in Pennsylvania that are not affiliates or employees of either BA or QwestCovad, and (ii) residential Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “"fully operational” " in a LATA in Pennsylvania when Qwest Covad has an effective Tariff for residential Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania and has a 1 SS7 certification scheduling depends on actual schedule availability at time of request. Initial implementation will be multi-frequency until SS7 certification is achieved.effective

Miscellaneous Notes. 1. The Qwest HarvardNet termination rate under the single-tiered interconnection structure set forth above is intended to be a Local Traffic termination rate for Interconnection to the QwestHarvardNet-IP within each LATA that is reciprocal and equal to the actual rates that will be charged by BA to Qwest HarvardNet under the two-tiered Local Traffic termination rate structure described above that will apply after the first anniversary of the Effective Date. The single Qwest HarvardNet termination rate is also intended to provide financial incentives to Qwest HarvardNet to deliver traffic directly to BA’s 's terminating End Offices once Qwest’s HarvardNet's traffic volumes reach an appropriate threshold. BA-PA/Qwest 2 SCHEDULE 3.0 INITIAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE FOR MARYLAND In accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Agreement, the Parties shall make their best efforts to meet the following initial Milestones no later than the listed Dates. LATA LATA Start Date . (1) TBD SS7 Certification, Collocation, Operator Services/DA Facilities, and NXX(s) Applied For TBD Parties Agree on Trunking Arrangements for Traffic Exchange TBD Valid Access Service Request(s) (“ASRs”) for Traffic Exchange Trunk Groups and Routing Information Received by BA TBD Valid Orders for 911 Facilities Received by BA TBD All Trunks (Traffic Exchange, Operator Services/DA, 911) Tested and Turned Up TBD SS7 Certification Achieved; 1 Collocation Arrangements Complete for Trunk Interconnection and Access to Network Elements TBD Elements(2) ---------------------------------------------------------- Arrangements for Alternate-Billed Calls TBD Agreed Upon TBD Call-through Testing Completed; “TBD "Interconnection Activation Date” TBD " =============================================================================== Failure of a Party or the Parties to meet an earlier Milestone Date shall not relieve either Party of the responsibility to make its best efforts to meet subsequent Milestone Date(s) in the LATA, unless, and only to the extent that, the subsequent Milestone Date(s) depend on the timely completion of such earlier Milestone Date. For purposes of Section 3, (i) business Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “"fully operational” " in a LATA in Pennsylvania Maryland when Qwest HARVARDNET has an effective Tariff for business Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania Maryland and a significant number of Telephone Exchange Service Customer lines in service for business Telephone Exchange Service Customers in that LATA in Pennsylvania Maryland that are not affiliates or employees of either BA or Qwest, and or (ii1) residential Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “fully operational” in a LATA in Pennsylvania when Qwest has an effective Tariff for residential Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania and has a 1 SS7 certification scheduling depends on actual schedule availability at time of request. Initial implementation will be multi-frequency until SS7 certification is achieved. (2) Intervals for IDLC collocation arrangements for VG ULL capability are 60 days for Virtual Collocation and 120 days for Physical Collocation from the date the arrangement is applied for. employees of either BA or HARVARDNET, and (ii) residential Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered "fully operational" in a LATA in Maryland when HARVARDNET has an effective Tariff for residential Telephone Exchange Service in Maryland and has a significant number of Telephone Exchange Service Customer lines in service for residential Telephone Exchange Service Customers in that LATA in Maryland that are not affiliates or employees of either BA or HARVARDNET. SCHEDULE 4.0 Network Interconnection Schedule LATA HARVARDNET-IP BA-IP Activation Date ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT UNDER SECTIONS 251 AND 252 OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 Dated as of October 7, 1998 by and between ▇▇▇▇ ATLANTIC - MARYLAND, INC. and DIECA COMMUNICATIONS, INC. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Miscellaneous Notes. 1. The Qwest PaeTec termination rate under the single-tiered interconnection structure set forth above is intended to be a Local Traffic termination rate for Interconnection to the QwestPaeTec-IP within each LATA that is reciprocal and equal to the actual rates that will be charged by BA to Qwest PaeTec under the two-tiered Local Traffic termination rate structure described above that will apply after the first anniversary of the Effective Date. The single Qwest PaeTec termination rate is also intended to provide financial incentives to Qwest PaeTec to deliver traffic directly to BA’s terminating End Offices once QwestPaeTec’s traffic volumes reach an appropriate threshold. BA-PA/Qwest PaeTec 10/19/98 2 Service or Element Description: Recurring Charges: Non-Recurring Charge: In accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Agreement, the Parties shall make their best efforts to meet the following initial Milestones no later than the listed Dates. LATA TBD LATA Start Date TBD SS7 Certification, Collocation, Operator Services/DA Facilities, and NXX(s) Applied For TBD Parties Agree on Trunking Arrangements for Traffic Exchange TBD Valid Access Service Request(s) (“ASRs”) for Traffic Exchange Trunk Groups and Routing Information Received by BA TBD Valid Orders for 911 Facilities Received by BA TBD All Trunks (Traffic Exchange, Operator Services/DA, 911) Tested and Turned Up TBD Up; SS7 Certification Achieved; 1 Achieved1 TBD Collocation Arrangements Complete for Trunk Interconnection and Access to Network Elements Elements2 TBD Arrangements for Alternate-Billed Calls Agreed Upon TBD Call-through Testing Completed; “Interconnection Activation Date” TBD Failure of a Party or the Parties to meet an earlier Milestone Date shall not relieve either Party of the responsibility to make its best efforts to meet subsequent Milestone Date(s) in the LATA, unless, and only to the extent that, the subsequent Milestone Date(s) depend on the timely completion of such earlier Milestone Date. For purposes of Section 3, (i) business Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “fully operational” in a LATA in Pennsylvania when Qwest PaeTec has an effective Tariff for business Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania and has a significant number of Telephone Exchange Service Customer lines in service for business Telephone Exchange Service Customers in that LATA in Pennsylvania that are not affiliates or employees of either BA or QwestPaeTec, and (ii) residential Telephone Exchange Service shall be considered “fully operational” in a LATA in Pennsylvania when Qwest PaeTec has an effective Tariff for residential Telephone Exchange Service in Pennsylvania and has a 1 SS7 certification scheduling depends on actual schedule availability at time of request. Initial implementation will be multi-frequency until SS7 certification is achieved.