Common use of Special Access Service Conversions Clause in Contracts

Special Access Service Conversions. 5.3.7.1 Louisville Telephone may not convert special access services to combinations of loop and transport network elements, whether or not Louisville Telephone self- provides its entrance facilities (or obtains entrance facilities from a third party), unless Louisville Telephone uses the combination to provide a significant amount of local exchange service, in addition to exchange access service, to a particular customer. To the extent Louisville Telephone requests to convert any special access services to combinations of loop and transport network elements at UNE prices, Louisville Telephone shall provide to BellSouth a letter certifying that Louisville Telephone is providing a significant amount of local exchange service (as described in this Section) over such combinations. The certification letter shall also indicate under what local usage option Louisville Telephone seeks to qualify for conversion of special access circuits. Louisville Telephone shall be deemed to be providing a significant amount of local exchange service over such combinations if one of the following options is met: 5.3.7.2 Louisville Telephone certifies that it is the exclusive provider of an end user’s local exchange service. The loop-transport combinations must terminate at Louisville Telephone’s collocation arrangement in at least one BellSouth central office. This option does not allow loop-transport combinations to be connected to BellSouth’s tariffed services. Under this option, Louisville Telephone is the end user’s only local service provider, and thus, is providing more than a significant amount of local exchange service. Louisville Telephone can then use the loop-transport combinations that serve the end user to carry any type of traffic, including using them to carry 100 percent interstate access traffic; or 5.3.7.3 Louisville Telephone certifies that it provides local exchange and exchange access service to the end user customer’s premises and handles at least one third of the end user customer’s local traffic measured as a percent of total end user customer local dialtone lines; and for DS1 circuits and above, at least 50 percent of the activated channels on the loop portion of the loop-transport combination have at least 5 percent local voice traffic individually, and the entire loop facility has at least 10 percent local voice traffic. When a loop-transport combination includes multiplexing, each of the individual DS1 circuits must meet these criteria. The loop-transport combination must terminate at Louisville Telephone’s collocation arrangement in at least one BellSouth central office. This option does not allow loop-transport combinations to be connected to BellSouth tariffed services; or 5.3.7.4 Louisville Telephone certifies that at least 50 percent of the activated channels on a circuit are used to provide originating and terminating local dialtone service and at least 50 percent of the traffic on each of these local dialtone channels is local voice traffic, and that the entire loop facility has at least 33 percent local voice traffic. When a loop-transport combination includes multiplexing, each of the individual DS1 circuits must meet these criteria. This option does not allow loop- transport combinations to be connected to BellSouth’s tariffed services. Under this option, collocation is not required. Louisville Telephone does not need to provide a defined portion of the end user’s local service, but the active channels on any loop-transport combination, and the entire facility, must carry the amount of local exchange traffic specified in this option. 5.3.7.5 In addition, there may be extraordinary circumstances where Louisville Telephone is providing a significant amount of local exchange service, but does not qualify under any of the three options set forth in Section 5.3.