Common use of Network Engineering Clause in Contracts

Network Engineering. As soon as a city/urban area reaches a positive business case based on HLD and the municipality/city council orientation comes back favorable, the engineering phase starts. For the most efficient design, an advanced alignment with the municipality council on POP locations is supposed to take place. In the Engineering period, a street- and infrastructure survey result in the complete address database with all premises to be covered in the Homes Passed network. A Detailed Design (DD) is made for each Fiberzone and the different types of permits and approvals are requested (public domain, façade approval, syndic alignment). Regarding alignment with syndics, this is initiated as early as possible to ensure Homes Passed network is available in the entire MDU. It is the responsibility of Company to ensure agreement is reached regarding HP network. However, Operator can always help with existing syndic relationships (e.g. syndic names & contact details). See Figure 7 for a schematic overview of the roll-out process. In order to minimize lead- time, several activities are planned in parallel. Figure 7: Schematic overview of the roll-out process