Common use of Trunk Servicing Clause in Contracts

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT end office and ALLTEL access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT ICG end office and ALLTEL access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT Level 3 end office and ALLTEL access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, ; to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization trouble-shoot to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT Insight end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line test -line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT KMC end office and ALLTEL access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT Service Electric end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, ; to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization trouble-shoot to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT TWCIS (KY) end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT NOS end office and ALLTEL access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT Dialog Telecommunications end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT LSP-PGNAPS end office and ALLTEL access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT Allo Communications end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT TCG end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.. Attachment 11: INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT ▇▇▇▇▇▇ end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT Alliance Connect end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT Core end office and ALLTEL Windstream access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL Windstream will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.

Trunk Servicing. ‌ 7.1 Orders between the Parties to establish, add, change or disconnect trunks shall be processed by use of an Access Service Request ("ASR") or another industry standard method subsequently adopted by the Parties to replace the ASR for local trunk ordering. 7.2 The Parties shall jointly manage the capacity of local Interconnection Trunk Groups. Either Party may send the other Party an ASR to initiate changes to the Local Interconnection Trunk Groups that the ordering Party desires based on the ordering Party's capacity assessment. 7.3 Orders that comprise a major project (i.e., new switch deployment) shall be submitted in a timely fashion, and their implementation shall be jointly planned and coordinated. 7.4 Each Party shall be responsible for engineering its networks on its side of the IP. 7.5 Each Party will provide trained personnel with adequate and compatible test equipment to work with each other's technicians. 7.6 The Parties will coordinate and schedule testing activities of their own personnel, and others as applicable, to ensure its interconnection trunks/trunk groups are installed per the interconnection order, meet agreed-upon acceptance test requirements, and are placed in service by the due date. 7.7 Each Party will perform sectionalization to determine if a trouble is located in its facility or its portion of the interconnection trunks prior to referring the trouble to each other. 7.8 The Parties will advise each other's Control Office if there is an equipment failure, which may affect the interconnection trunks. 7.9 Each Party will provide to each other test-line numbers and access to test lines. 7.10 The Parties will cooperatively plan and implement coordinated repair procedures for the local interconnection trunks to ensure trouble reports are resolved in a timely and appropriate manner. 7.11 A blocking standard of one-half of one percent (.005) during the average busy hour for final trunk groups between an SPRINT US LEC end office and ALLTEL access tandem carrying meet point traffic shall be maintained. All other final trunk groups are to be engineered with a blocking standard of one percent (.01). ALLTEL will engineer all interconnection trunks between the Parties to a 6 db of digital pad configuration.