Number Resources, Rate Center Areas and Routing Points 8.1 Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to limit or otherwise adversely affect in any manner either Party’s right to employ or to request and be assigned any Central Office Codes (“NXX”) pursuant to the Central Office Code Assignment Guidelines and any relevant FCC or Commission orders, as may be amended from time to time, or to establish, by Tariff or otherwise, Rate Center Areas and Routing Points corresponding to such NXX codes. 8.2 It shall be the responsibility of each Party to program and update its own switches and network systems pursuant to information provided in the LERG in order to recognize and route traffic to the other Party’s assigned NXX codes. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, neither Party shall impose any fees or charges whatsoever on the other Party for such activities. 8.3 Unless otherwise required by Commission order, the Rate Center Areas will be the same for each Party. During the term of this Agreement, Onvoy shall adopt the Rate Center Area and Rate Center Points that the Commission has approved for Frontier within the LATA and Tandem serving area. Onvoy shall assign whole NPA-NXX codes to each Rate Center Area unless otherwise ordered by the FCC, the Commission or another governmental entity of appropriate jurisdiction, or the LEC industry adopts alternative methods of utilizing NXXs. 8.4 Onvoy will also designate a Routing Point for each assigned NXX code. Onvoy shall designate one location for each Rate Center Area in which the Onvoy has established NXX code(s) as the Routing Point for the NPA-NXXs associated with that Rate Center Area, and such Routing Point shall be within the same LATA as the Rate Center Area but not necessarily within the Rate Center Area itself. Unless specified otherwise, calls to subsequent NXXs of Onvoy will be routed in the same manner as calls to ▇▇▇▇▇’s initial NXXs. 8.5 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, nothing in this Agreement is intended, and nothing in this Agreement shall be construed, to in any way constrain Onvoy’s choices regarding the size of the local calling area(s) that Onvoy may establish for its Customers, which local calling areas may be larger than, smaller than, or identical to Frontier’s local calling areas.
Loop Reservations 2.9.3.1 For a Mechanized LMU, ONS may reserve up to ten (10) Loop facilities. For a Manual LMUSI, ONS may reserve up to three (3) Loop facilities. 2.9.3.2 ONS may reserve facilities for up to four (4) business days for each facility requested through LMU from the time the LMU information is returned to ONS. During and prior to ONS placing an LSR, the reserved facilities are rendered unavailable to other customers, including BellSouth. If ONS does not submit an LSR for a UNE service on a reserved facility within the four (4)-day reservation timeframe, the reservation of that spare facility will become invalid and the facility will be released. 2.9.3.3 Charges for preordering Manual LMUSI or Mechanized LMU are separate from any charges associated with ordering other services from BellSouth. 2.9.3.4 All LSRs issued for reserved facilities shall reference the facility reservation number as provided by BellSouth. ONS will not be billed any additional LMU charges for the Loop ordered on such LSR. If, however, ONS does not reserve facilities upon an initial LMUSI, ONS’ placement of an order for an advanced data service type facility will incur the appropriate billing charges to include SI and reservation per Exhibit A of this Attachment. 2.9.3.5 Where ONS has reserved multiple Loop facilities on a single reservation, ONS may not specify which facility shall be provisioned when submitting the LSR. For those occasions, BellSouth will assign to ONS, subject to availability, a facility that meets the BellSouth technical standards of the BellSouth type Loop as ordered by ONS.
Margin of Preference and Reservations 32.1 A margin of preference may be allowed on locally manufactured goods only when the contract is open to international tendering, where the tender is likely to attract foreign goods and where the contract exceeds the threshold specified in the Regulations. 32.2 For purposes of granting a margin of preference on locally manufactured goods under international competitive tendering, a procuring entity shall not subject the items listed below to international tender and hence no margin of preference shall be allowed. The affected items are: a) motor vehicles, plant and equipment which are assembled in Kenya; b) furniture, textile, foodstuffs, oil and gas, information communication technology, steel, cement, leather agro-processing, sanitary products, and other goods made in Kenya; or c) goods manufactured, mined, extracted or grown in Kenya. 32.3 A margin of preference shall not be allowed unless it is specified so in the TDS.