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ATI Tariff F.C.C. No. 1 - Access Services

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1. 17 2 3 SS7Local Transport cont Non recurring Monthly Rate Charge l Signaling Network Access Link Signaling Mileage Facility per mile ICB Signaling Mileage Termination per Termination ICB Signaling Entrance Facility Per Facility ICB Signaling Entrance Facility Installation 177 00 STP Port per port ICB SS7 MF Conversion per 24 trunks Converted 260 00 2 800 Series Data Base Access Service Queries Rate Per Query Basic Vertical 8XX Data Base Query 8XX Data Base Query State ILEC Tariff Reference Basit Vertical Per Query Per Query Kentucky WINDSTREAM 17 2 2 F Basic Query 17 2 2 F Enhanced TELEPHONE SYSTEM Windstream Kentucky East Query Windstream TARIFF F C C NO 6 Lexington Kentucky East Lexington Maryland THE VERIZON TELEPHONE COMPANIES TARIFF F C C NO 1 6 9 1 N Toll Free Data Base Access Service Basic Query Charge per Query 6 9 1 N Toll Free Data Base Vertical Feature Package VFP per Query Ohio AMERITECH OPERATING COMPANIES TARIFF F C C NO 2 6 9 4 A 1 Data Base Services 800 Service 800 Call Routing Query Charge Issued October 3 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President Effective One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Date October 4 2011 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 179 Cancels Original Page 179 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERV
2. Channel Mileage Termination The Channel Mileage Termination rate recovers the cost for end office equipment associated with terminating the facility i e basic circuit equipment and terminations at serving wire centers and hubs The Channel Mileage Termination rate will apply at the serving wire center s for each Customer designated premises and Company hub where the channel is terminated If the Channel Mileage is between bridging hubs the Channel Mileage Termination rate will apply per Company designated hub If the Channel Mileage is between the serving wire center for a Customer designated premises and a WATS Serving Office the Channel Mileage Termination rate will apply at both the serving wire center associated with the Customer designated premises and the WATS Serving Office When the Channel Mileage Facility is zero 0 i e collocated serving wire centers neither the Channel Mileage Facility rate nor the Channel Mileage Termination rate will apply Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 143 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 71 9 Rate Regul ations cont d 7 9 1 Rate Categories cont d C Issued October 3 2011 Optional Features and Functions The Optional Features and Functions rate category
3. 2 Payment Arrangements and Credit Allowances 2 7 1 Payment of Rates Charges and Deposits A Responsibility for Charges Charges for installations service connections moves rearrangements and prepaid services where applicable are payable upon demand to the Company or its authorized agent Billing thereafter will include recurring charges and actual usage as defined in this Tariff The Company shall bill on a current basis all charges incurred by and credits due to the Customer under this Tariff attributable to services established or disconnected during the preceding billing period In addition the Company shall bill in advance charges for all non usage based services to be provided during the ensuing billing period All usage based service will be billed in arrears Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 37 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 7 Payment Arrangements and Credit Allowances cont d 2 7 1 Payment of Rates Charges and Deposits cont d B Payment for Service The Customer is responsible for payment of all charges incurred by the Customer or other users for services and facilities furnished to the Customer by the Company All such payments are due within thirty 30 days after the inv
4. By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 186 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 3 Special Access Service cont d 17 3 3 High Capacity Service A Channel Termination Per Termination Monthly Non recurring Rate Charge Bi AM gm DS2 6 312 Mbps ICB ICB Capacity of 1DS3 44 736 Mbps Interface ICB ICB Capacity of 3 DS3 44 736 Mbps Interface ICB Per DS3 Installed ICB ICB Capacity of 8 DS3 Interface ICB Per DS3 Installed ICB ICB Capacity of 12 DS3 Interface ICB Per DS3 Installed ICB ICB DS4 274 176 Mbps ICB ICB B Channel Mileage Monthly l Channel Mileage Facility per mile Rate 64 Kbps ICB 1 544 Mbps ICB 3 152 ICB 6 312 ICB 44 736 Mbps ICB 274 176 ICB 2 Channel Mileage Termination per termination 64 Kbps ICB 1 544 Mbps ICB 3 152 ICB 6 312 ICB 44 736 Mbps ICB 274 176 ICB Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 187 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 3 Special Access Service cont d 17 3 3 High Capacity Service C Optional Features and Functions 1 Multiplexing Per Arr
5. PUB 41004 Data Communications Using Voiceband Private Line Channels Issued October 1973 PUB 62310 Digital Data System Channel Interface Specification Issued September 1983 PUB 62411 High Capacity Digital Service Channel Interface Specification Issued September 1983 Addendum October 1984 TR NPL 000258 Compatibility Information for Feature Group D Switched Access Service Issued October 1985 TR NWT 000334 Issue 2 Voice Grade Switched Access Service Transmission Parameter Limits and Interface Combinations Issued September 1990 TR TSY 000335 Issue 2 Voice Grade Special Access Service Transmission Parameter Limits and Interface Combinations Issued May 1990 TR NPL 000336 Metallic and Telegraph Grade Special Access Service Transmission Parameter Limits and Interface Combinations Issued October 1987 TR NPL 000337 Program Audio Special Access Service and Local Channel Services Issued July 1987 TR NPL 000338 Television Special Access and Local Channel Services Transmission Parameter Limits and Interface Combinations Issued December 1986 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 11 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES REFERENCE TO TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS cont d TR NPL 000341 Digital Data Special Access Service Transmission Parameter and
6. 1 3 Service Configurations There are two 2 types of service configurations over which Special Access Services are provided two 2 point and multi point A Two Point Service Two Point Service connects two 2 Customer designated premises directly or through a hub where multiplexing functions are performed or a Customer designated premises and a WATS Serving Office Applicable rate elements are Channel Terminations Channel Mileage as applicable Optional Features and Functions when applicable B Multi Point Service Multi Point Service connects three 3 or more Customer designated premises through one 1 or more Company hubs Only certain types of Special Access Service are provided as Multi Point Service These are so designated in the descriptions for the appropriate channel The channel between hubs i e bridging locations on a Multi Point Service is a mid link There is no limitation on the number of mid links available with a Multi Point Service However when more than three 3 mid links in a tandem are provided the quality of the overall service may be degraded Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 139 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 1 3 7 4 7 5 Service Configurations cont d B
7. INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 3 Access Orders For Services Provided By More Than One Company cont d For the service s ordered as set forth following the Customer must also supply a copy of the order to the Company in whose operating territory a Customer designated premises is located and any other Company s involved in providing the service A For Feature Group D Switched Access Services the Customer must place an order with the Company in whose territory the end office is located Customers may at their option order FGD to the access tandem When ordered to the access tandem and the access tandem and the end office are not in the same Company operating territory the Customer must also supply a copy of the order to each additional Company subtending the access tandem B Customers ordering Special Access Service to be interconnected with Switched Access Services at Company designated WATS Serving Offices for the provision of WATS or WATS type Services must place an order with each Company in whose territory the end office and the WATS Serving Office are located if they are not collocated C Except for Special Access Service as set forth in paragraph B above or as set forth in paragraph D below the Customer may place the order for a Special Access Service with either Company D For Special Access Service involving a hub s the Customer must place the order with the Company
8. James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 21 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 10 Liability cont d F Indemnification of the Company cont d 4 Inthe event parties other than the Customer including but not limited to joint users and the Customer s customers shall have use of the Company s service directly or indirectly through the Customer then the Customer agrees to forever indemnify and hold the Company harmless from and against any and all claims demands suits actions losses damages assessments or payments which may be asserted by said parties arising out of or relating to the Company s furnishing of service G Warranties or Representation by the Company The Company makes no warranties or representations express or implied either in fact or by operation of law statutory or otherwise including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use except those expressly set forth herein H No License Granted No license under patents other than the limited license to use is granted by the Company or shall be implied or arise by estoppel with respect to any service offered under this Tariff Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Arm
9. Transport Reference Tandem Tandem Switching Per Switched Facility Switched Tandem per Access i Termination Minute per Mile Per Termination Pennsylvania Citizens 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local Telephone of Kecksburg Transport Transport Transport NATIONAL Premium Access Premium Access Premium Access EXCHANGE CARRIER Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched ASSOCIATION INC Transport Rate Transport Rate Transport Rate F C C NO 5 Band 2 Band 2 Band 2 Pennsylvania 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local N Commonwealth Transport Transport Transport Telephone Company Premium Access Premium Access Premium Access NATIONAL Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched EXCHANGE CARRIER Transport Rate Transport Rate Transport Rate ASSOCIATION INC Band 2 Band 2 Band 2 N F C C NO 5 Pennsylvania 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local Consolidated Transport Transport Transport Communications of Premium Access Premium Access Premium Access Pennsylvania Company Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched NATIONAL Transport Rate Transport Rate Transport Rate EXCHANGE CARRIER Band 2 Band 2 Band 2 ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 Pennsylvania THE 6 9 1 B Switched 6 9 1 B Switched 6 9 1 B Switched VERIZON TELEPHONE Transport Transport Transport M COMPANIES TARIFF Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched F C C NO 1
10. if any Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 89 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d 1 Entrance Facility cont d Three 3 types of entrance facilities are available 1 voice grade two 2 or four 4 wire an analog channel with an approximate bandwidth of 300 to 3000 HZ 2 high capacity DS1 an isochronous serial digital channel with a rate of 1 544 Mbps and 3 high capacity DS3 and isochronous serial digital channel with a rate of 44 736 Mbps The minimum period for which a DS3 entrance facility is provided is twelve 12 months One 1 charge applies for each entrance facility that is terminated at a Customer designated premises This charge specified in Section 17 will apply even if the Customer designated premises and the serving wire center are collocated in the Company building A Customer s local transport may be connected to the entrance facility of another Customer providing the other Customer submits a letter of authorization for this connection and assumes full responsibility for the cost of the entrance facility 2 Transport Interconnection Charge The Transport Interconnection Charge recove
11. statement setting forth the justification for the additional engineering as well as an estimate of the charges If the Customer agrees to the additional engineering a firm order will be established If the Customer does not want the service or facilities after being notified by the Company that additional engineering is required the Customer may cancel the order and no charges will apply 33 Access Orders For Services Provided By More Than One Company Access Services provided by more than one Company are services where one end of the local transport or channel mileage element is in the operating territory of one Company and the other end of the element is in the operating territory of a different Company The ordering procedure for this service is dependent upon the billing arrangement to be used by the Companies involved in providing the Access Service The Company will notify the Customer which of the ordering procedures will apply Each Company will provide its portion of the Access Service within its operating territory to an interconnection point s with the other Companies Billing Percentages BP will be determined in accordance with MECAB guidelines Each Company will bill the Customer for its portion of the service provided Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 72
12. work stoppages and civil commotion the Customer may cancel the Access Order without incurring cancellation charges Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 81 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 4 CARRIER COMMON LINE ACCESS SERVICES 4 1 General Description The Company will provide Carrier Common Line Access Service Carrier Common Line Access to Customers in conjunction with Switched Access Service provided in Section 5 of this Tariff Carrier Common Line Access Service provides for the use of Company common lines by Customers for access to end users to furnish Interstate Communications The Switched Access Service provided by the Company includes the Switched Access provided for both interstate and Interstate communications The Carrier Common Line Access rates and charges apply to Interstate Switched Access Service access minutes Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 82 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 4 CARRIER COMMON LINE ACCESS SERVICES cont d 4 2 Obligation of the Customer 4 2 1 Switched Access Service Requirement The Switched Acce
13. 2 3 1 Basic Channel Description e rd E lr ore eese aeter b eed 135 7 2 3 2 Optional Features and Functions eese ener nren nennen 136 7 3 Service Configurations cscs ceases den pet ene eee pe do eee eo ete cd ee eene dot depen epe eret nee 138 7 4 Alternate Use ee pride eerie ri te ier e Rite dee Hsec rs 139 7 5 Special Facilities Routing sensn ai aei iaag 139 7 6 Design Layout Report tertie sedate acta cu tte err edie ates EG ro drin 140 7 7 Acceptance Vestine ineo cn ee ert e iot e pere E dee y er eeu eoe DP Ee Ex 140 7 8 Ordering Options and Conditions eese nennen nennen 140 7 9 Rate Regulations orree feierte ter Pp Ne is tel e EP e eph EAE Ee En ee EEEE 141 7 9 1 Rate CategOorles iode pois eire eer Nes Seria aeuo pie Tries ie in ener e Page viue vate 141 7 9 2 Types of Rates and Charges teet eire et a eere tee PEE CER ee bn cie RE Leer aa 144 7 9 3 MT DE ee oe ee ches 147 7 9 4 Mileage Meastirement 2 cerca saves fe cu Peshed ccueru sees cebeaststacusleedcsdegeselzesbevecedascetecquteseteende 149 7 10 Mixed Use Analog and Digital High Capacity Services eee 151 7 11 Individual Case Basis Arrangements eese eene nen 152 Section 8 Special Facilities Routing of Access Services eesssssseseeeeeeeen eene 153 8 1 Ib euro ERR E PER 153 8 1 1 Ibid mE 153 8 1 2 PAV OIG ANCE 5 itecto ores ei ieget iba e ee e eee Id ee egeat EI
14. ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES cont d 10 3 Miscellaneous Services cont d 10 3 2 Maintenance of Service cont d 10 3 3 The Customer shall be responsible for payment of the Maintenance of Service Charge when the Company dispatches personnel to the Customer designated premises and the trouble is in equipment or communications systems provided by other than the Company or in detariffed Customer premises equipment provided by the Company No credit allowance will be applicable for the interruption involved if the Maintenance of Service Charge applies Telecommunications Service Priority TSP Priority installation and or restoration of National Security Emergency Preparedness NSEP Telecommunications Services shall be provided in accordance with Part 64 401 Appendix A of the Federal Communications Commission s FCC s Rules and Regulations In addition TSP System Service shall be provided in accordance with the guidelines set forth in Telecommunications Service Priority TSP System for National Security Emergency Preparedness NSEP Service Vendor Handbook NCSH 3 1 2 dated July 9 1990 and Telecommunications Service Priority System for National Security Emergency Preparedness Service User Manual NCSM 3 1 1 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc T
15. D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 59 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d On hook The term On hook denotes the idle condition of Switched Access or a Telephone Exchange Service line Open Circuit Test Line The term Open Circuit Test Line denotes an arrangement in an end office which provides an ac open circuit termination of a trunk or line by means of an inductor of several Henries Originating Direction The term Originating Direction denotes the use of access service for the origination of calls from an End User Premises to an IXC Premises Pay Telephone The term Pay Telephone denotes a coin or coinless instrument provided in a FEE or semipublic place where Payphone Service Provider Customers can originate telephonic communications and pay the applicable charges by 1 inserting coins into the equipment or 2 using a credit card or 3 third party billing the call or 4 calling collect Payphone Service Provider The term Payphone Service Provider denotes any entity that provides pay telephone service which is the provision of public semi public or inmate pay telephone service Permanent Virtual Connection PVC The term PVC denotes a software defined communications path between two 2 port connections within the Frame Rela
16. Design Layout Report 5 ertet e epe tede tee EP E ertet Bees et hate be 97 5 2 Undertaking of the Company sessi nne a 97 5 2 1 Network Management ep eteceke ee dece eue enne eee e pb ee ki eoo d ee ERE DR RE RIDE Eee OBERE e sU Rd 97 5 2 2 West Ig oou sore Irene iet oorpore T e peines See tae 98 5 2 3 Trunk Group Measurement Reports eese nennen nennen nennen nenne 99 5 3 Obligations of the CUStOTBer 1 im eem toten eot tese npo eee be Doe ite Lees 99 5 3 1 Report BRequirretnents oe e eee te e e e EEUU Fee o ETUR ead 99 5 3 2 Supervisory Signaling ae leote erre eet cree reed eerie eda Ee re erp e EE aee NER 99 5 3 3 Short Duration Mass Calling Requirements eese 100 5 3 4 Design of Switched Access Servie ino esenr inini aserik enyan eieaeoeaii rennen 100 5 4 Rate Regulations 2 1 nee ere ete eee caine ete iet 100 5 4 1 Description and Application of Rate rennen 100 5 4 2 MOVES P Nini cee ety eae 108 5 4 3 Mileage Me surement 45 idet diem dee pi t eere 108 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features eeeeesseeseeeseeeeeeeeee enne ennemi 109 5 4 5 Chargeable Optional Features cccceessecesceeeseeceenaeceeaceceeceeeaeceeaaeceeeeecsaeeeeaecseaeeesaes 115 5 4 6 Design and Fratfic Routing ien epit eene onere ipeo d ea e edet og 119 5 4 7 Measuring Access Minutes noeneen nsee a S Erea entes entente rase te seinen seen 119 5 4 8 Testne Capab
17. Engineering as set forth in Section 17 If a change of service date is required the Service Date Change Charge will also apply A Design Change Charge will apply on a per order per occurrence basis 3 5 Minimum Periods and Cancellations 3 5 1 Minimum Periods A Switched Access usage rate services 1 e End Office Common Line Tandem Switched Transport have no minimum period B Special Access services are billed in advance with partial month charges calculated on a thirty 30 day month Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 79 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 5 Charges Associated with Access Ordering cont d 3 5 1 Minimum Periods cont d C The following charges will be treated as a discontinuance of the existing service and a request for installation of a new service All associated non recurring charges will apply for the new service and a new minimum period will be established A change in the identity of the Customer of record A move by the Customer to a different building A change in type of service A change in Switched Access Service Interface i e DS1 or DS3 A change in Switched Access Service Traffic Type A change in type of Special Access Service Channel Termination A c
18. Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 99 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 2 Undertaking of the Company cont d 5 2 3 Trunk Group Measurement Reports Subject to availability the Company will make available trunk group data in the form of usage in CCS peg count and overflow to the Customer based on previously agreed to intervals 5 3 Obligations of the Customer In addition to the obligations of the Customer set forth in Section 2 preceding the Customer has certain specific obligations pertaining to the use of Switched Access Service These obligations are as follows 5 3 Report Requirements Customers are responsible for providing the following reports to the Company when applicable A Jurisdictional Reports When a Customer orders Switched Access Service for both Interstate and Intrastate use the Customer is responsible for providing Jurisdictional Reports Charges will be apportioned in accordance with those reports The method to be used for determining the Interstate charges is set forth in Section 2 3 9 preceding B Code Screening Reports When a Customer orders service class routing trunk access limitation or call gapping arrangements it must report the number of trunks and or the appropriate codes to be instituted in each end office or acce
19. SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 1 Description and Application of Rate cont d B Non recurring Charges cont d 4 When a Customer requests a change of trunks from tandem switched Issued October 3 2011 transport to direct trunked transport or from direct trunked transport to tandem switched transport or requests to rearrange switched access services between lower capacity and higher capacity facilities e g voice grade to from DS1 or DS1 to from DS3 the non recurring charges set forth in 1 preceding do not apply providing the orders to disconnect existing trunks and to connect the new trunks are placed at the same time and the number of installed trunks does not exceed the number of trunks disconnected If the number of installed trunks exceeds the number of trunks connected all non recurring charges will apply to the excess trunks unless the customer provides justification based upon standard engineering methods to show that the additional capacity is required to maintain the same level of service For additions changes or modifications to an optional feature which has separate non recurring charge that non recurring charge will apply Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 105 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC AC
20. Special Access Service group when the first group has exceeded its call capacity H End Office End User Line Service Screening for Use with Special Access Service Utilized in the Provision of WATS or WATS Type Services This option provides the ability to verify that an end user has dialed a called party address by screening the called NPA and or NXX on the basis of geographical bands selected by the Company which is in accordance with that end user s service agreement with the Customer e g WATS This option is provided in all Company end offices which are designated as WATS Serving Offices Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 112 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features cont d 5 4 4 1 Common Switching Options cont d I Hunt Group Arrangement for Use with Special Access Service Utilized in the Provision of WATS or WATS Type Services This option provides the ability to sequentially access one 1 of two 2 or more Special Access Services utilized in the provision of WATS Services e g 800 Series Service Special Access services in the terminating direction when the hunting number of the Special Access Service group is f
21. Transport Transport Transport Tandem Transport Tandem Transport Tandem Switching Zone 1 Per Mile Zone 1 Fixed Zone 1 M M Material previously appearing on this page now appears on Page 175 Issued May 11 2012 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Effective Date May 12 2012 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 175 Cancels Original Page 175 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 2 Local Transport cont d Premium Access cont d Tandem Switched Tandem Tandem Transport Switched Switched State ILEC Tariff Tandem Switched Transport Transport Reference Facility per Access Tandem Switching Per Minute per Mile Switched Tandem Termination Per Termination Pennsylvania Verizon 6 6 7 L Tandem 6 6 7 M Tandem 6 6 7 N Tandem M VERIZON TELEPHONE Switched Transport Switched Switched COMPANIES TARIFF Facility Transport Transport F C C NO 16 Termination Tandem Switching Rate M Pennsylvania 17 2 2 A Local 17 2 2 A Local 17 2 2 A Local WINDSTREAM Transport Premium Transport Transport TELEPHONE SYSTEM Access Tandem Premium Access Premium Access TARIFF F C C NO 6 Switched Transport Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tra
22. charge for the Channel Termination 2 Installation of Optional Features and Functions When optional features and functions are installed coincident with the initial installation of service no separate non recurring charge is applicable When optional features and functions are installed or changed subsequent to the installation of service an Access Order Charge will apply per order Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 146 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 2 Types of Rates and Charges cont d B Non recurring Charges cont d Issued October 3 2011 3 Service Rearrangements Service rearrangements are changes to existing installed services which may be administrative only in nature as set forth following or that involve actual physical change to the service Changes to pending orders are set forth in Section 3 4 preceding Changes in the type of service or channel termination which result in a change of the minimum period requirement will be treated as a discontinuance of the service and an installation of a new service Changes in ownership or transfer of responsibility from one 1 Customer to another will be treated as a discontinuance of the s
23. d 17 2 2 Local Transport cont d Premium Access cont d Common Transport Multiplexing Common Tandem Trunk Port State ILEC Tariff Reference Common Transport Multiplexing Per Access Minute Common Tandem Trunk Port Per Access Minute Pennsylvania Verizon 6 6 7 K Shared 6 6 7 J Shared Trunk VERIZON TELEPHONE Multiplexing Port COMPANIES TARIFF F C C NO 16 Pennsylvania 17 2 2 A Local Transport 17 2 3 D End WINDSTREAM Premium Access Tandem Office Access Tandem TELEPHONE SYSTEM Switched Transport Switched Transport End TARIFF F C C NO 6 Tandem Switched Multiplexing Windstream Pennsylvania Office Common Trunk Port Windstream Pennsylvania West Virginia Frontier Telephone Companies TARIFF F C C NO 4 6 9 1 B Switched Transport Tandem Switched Transport Transport Multiplexing DS3 to DS1 6 9 2 A End Office Local Switching Shared End Office Trunk per minute of use M Material now appearing on this page previously appeared on Page 177 Issued May 11 2012 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Effective Date May 12 2012 N N M M Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 178 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d
24. from the Customer designated premises to the end office switch but not simultaneously The voice frequency transmission path may be comprised of any form or configuration of plant capable of and typically used in the telecommunications industry for the transmission of voice and associated telephone signals within the frequency bandwidth of approximately 300 to 3000 Hz Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 87 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d Transport can be ordered as switched transport or direct trunked transport by the Customer The switched transport provides a common transmission path between Customers and the Company s local switch that serves end users Direct trunked transport provides dedicated transmission paths to a Customer for connection to Switched Access Services of the Company The Customer must specify when ordering whether the service is to be provided as direct trunked transport or tandem switched transport Additionally the Customer must specify 1 whether the service is to be directly routed to an end office switch or through an access tandem switch and 2 the type of direct trunked transport and wh
25. het eget ste dote iod 8 Explanation of Symbols tette ette ee pe e lene E EE eee eee eer dene ee be eee eene eee dae dee e CE ed 8 Explanation of Abbreviations etie ted eee pe tela dere Pepe stt bdeg ne te du pee etre cete Legend aee eoe Dod 9 Reference To Technical Publications 12 5 2 2 Hn ette ie ee Ea ettet eee e bo ee Hd 10 Secuon 1 Application of T rift 5 pepe repetat es ean dte ares ete tete 12 S ctiomn2 Gerneral Regulations a dee pL ed de en t o ee eer ert 13 2 1 Undertaking of the Telephone Company eese nennen 13 2 1 1 SCOPE e NA 13 2 1 2 Provision of Services 1 etes eser doce avd coeds ct SR EE He eek ere AEEA S e aa EE ieni 14 2 1 3 Ownership Of Facilities ient ROLE le eite 14 2 1 4 Service Maintenance nasiener iege eee e et retine eet oe etre ee ettet te s Pet eee Me erede etes 14 2 1 5 Changes and Substitutions eese eene enne nennen nennen nnne teens 14 2 1 6 Shortage of Equipment or Facilities sese 15 2 1 7 Notification of Service Affecting Activities esee 16 2 1 8 Coordination with Respect to Network Contingencies eee 16 2 1 9 IEEE 17 2 1 10 IEEE 18 2 1 11 Non routine Installatton torn eri ger eterne ent rdiet eee gea ether e nee e deba oe edge 22 2 1 12 Special Construction sss siiig eit e TRE e pe valid be ee RUE pee Eee pee eee get eeu 22 2 2 Terni and Charge of Service edd ete edi ede diet
26. on the vertical and horizontal coordinates of the two 2 points WATS Serving Office The term WATS Serving Office denotes a Telephone Company designated serving wire center where switching screening and or recording functions are performed in connection with the closed end of WATS or WATS type services Wireless Switching Center The term Wireless Switching Center WSC denotes a Wireless Service Provider WSP switching system that 1s used to terminate wireless stations for purposes of interconnection to each other and to trunks interfacing with the public switched network Wire Center The term Wire Center denotes a building in which one or more central offices used for the provision of Telephone Exchange Services are located Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 65 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING 3 1 General This section sets forth the regulations and order related charges for Access Service Requests ASR for Switched and Special Access Services as defined in this Tariff These charges are in addition to other applicable charges set forth in other sections of this Tariff An Access Order is an order to provide the Customer with Switched and Special Access or Access Related Service or to provide changes to existin
27. or by reason of any order or decision of a court or other government authority having jurisdiction which prohibits the Company from furnishing such service 2 9 4 For the Company to comply with any order or request of any governmental authority having jurisdiction The Customer shall be subject to discontinuance of service without notice for the Company to comply with any order or request of any governmental authority having jurisdiction When Access Service is provided by more than one 1 Company the companies involved in providing the joint service may individually or collectively deny service to a Customer for nonpayment Where the Company s affected by the nonpayment is incapable of effecting discontinuance of service without cooperation from the other joint providers of Switched Access Service such other Company s will if technically feasible assist in denying the joint service to the Customer Service denial for such joint service will only include calls originating or terminating within or transiting the operating territory of the Companies initiating the service denial for nonpayment Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 42 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 10 2 11 2 12 Restoration of
28. over facilities provided with the Common Channel Signaling Signaling System 7 Interconnection Service This will be provided in accordance with the SS7 Interconnect specifications described in Technical Reference TR TSV 000905 Calling Party Number CPN This feature provides for the automatic transmission of the ten 10 digit directory number associated with a calling station to the Customer s premises for calls originating in the LATA The ten 10 digit telephone number consists of the NPA plus the seven 7 digit telephone number which may or may not be the same number as the calling station s charge number The ten 10 digit telephone number will be coded as presented or restricted via a privacy indicator for delivery to the called end user This feature is provided with originating FGD with SS7 signaling CPN is available where technically feasible Carrier Selection Parameter CSP This feature provides for the automatic transmission of a signaling indicator which signifies to the Customer whether or not the call being processed originated from a presubscribed line If the line was presubscribed the indicator will signify if the end user did or did not dial an access code This feature is provided with originating FGD with SS7 signaling Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original
29. premises would normally obtain dial tone from the Company Seven Digit Manual Test Line The term Seven Digit Manual Test Line denotes an arrangement which allows the Customer to select balance milliwatt and synchronous test lines by manually dialing a seven 7 digit number over the associated access connection Short Circuit Test Line The term Short Circuit Test Line denotes an arrangement in an end office which provides for an ac short circuit termination of a trunk or line by means of a capacitor of at least four 4 microfarads Signal to C Notched Noise Ratio The term Signal to C Notched Noise Ratio denotes the ratio in dB of a test signal to the corresponding C Notched Noise Signaling Point SP The term Signaling Point SP denotes an SS7 network interface element capable of originating and terminating SS7 trunk signaling messages Signaling Point of Interface SPOD The term Signaling Point of Interface SPOI denotes the Customer designated location where the SS7 signaling information is exchanged between the Company and the Customer Signaling System 7 SS7 The term Signaling System 7 SS7 denotes the layered protocol used for standardized common channel signaling in the United States and Puerto Rico Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc
30. 0 calls calls for which the end user dials 0 with no additional digits to the Customer designated by the end user Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 116 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 5 Chargeable Optional Features cont d A Operator Transfer Service cont d The operator transfer function will be performed in the following manner The operator answers the 0 call Initially the Operator will suggest that the end user dial the Customer on a direct basis If the end user insists that the Operator transfer the call the Operator will ask the end user to identify the desired Customer and will then transfer the call as directed If the end user has no preference or the identified Customer has not subscribed to Operator Transfer Service the end user will be asked to select from a list of options The list of available Operator Transfer Service Customers will be updated monthly The order in which Customers will be read to end uses will be random Zero minus 0 Public Coin calls will be transferred to the end user designated Customer In order to accept coin sent paid calls the Customer must order signaling as specified in TR TS Y 000506 and TR N
31. 1 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 New or Revised Page Issued May 11 2012 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 By Revision Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Original First First First First First First Original Original First Original First Original First Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 2 Cancels Original Page 2 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Page 189 190 191 192 193 194 CHECK SHEET cont d Revision Original Original Original Original Original Original Effective Date May 12 2012 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 3 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No Check Sheet 2 2 oe eit net o etr c ERR rec IER bere Ree se e Re ER recette teas 1 Table OF GUN c 3 Concurring Carriers nie ep a ie emt 8 Connect Carriers 3 2 0 i dated tte dni b pied betae bbs ime totos Le be S E Sh thats 8 Other Participating Carriets aede dre eer ere esa etre tei cere erbe eese ended 8 R gistered Service Marks tee nto Et teat adt Ete 8 Registered l radeinarks 2o pete e Le t e thet cen ead ee ie ed
32. 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 13 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS 2 1 Undertaking of the Company 2 1 1 Scope A The Company s services and facilities are furnished for communications services Issued October 3 2011 between and among domestic points within the United States under terms of this Tariff The Company arranges for installation operation and maintenance of the communications services provided in this Tariff for Customers in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth under this Tariff The Company may act as the Customer s agent for ordering access connection facilities provided by other carriers or entities when authorized by the Customer to allow connection of a Customer s location to the Company s network The Company will for maintenance purposes test its service only to the extent necessary to detect and or clear troubles Services are provided twenty four 24 hours daily seven 7 days per week except as set forth in other applicable sections of this Tariff The Company does not undertake to transmit messages but offers the use of its facilities when available and will not be liable for errors in transmission or for failure to establish connection The Company provides only those services that are contained in this Tariff that the Company is technically capable of providing The services provided under th
33. 2 Customer designated premises a serving wire center associated with a Customer designated premises and a hub two 2 hubs or between the serving wire center associated with a Customer designated premises and a WATS Serving Office The serving wire center associated with a Customer designated premises is the serving wire center from which this Customer designated premises would normally obtain dial tone Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 150 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES T7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 4 Mileage Measurements cont d Mileage Charges are shown with each channel type To determine Mileage Charges first compute the airline mileage using the vertical V and horizontal H coordinates method as follows Obtain the V and H coordinates for each city Obtain the difference between the V coordinates and the H coordinates Square each difference obtained in the step above Add the squares of the V and H differences Divide the number obtained above by ten 10 Obtain the square root of the whole number from the step above This is the airline mileage Multiply the resulting airline miles times the Channel Mileage Facility per mile rate and add the C
34. 2 Local Transport cont d Premium Access cont d Common Transport Multiplexing Common Tandem Trunk Port Common Tandem Common Transport Trunk Port State ILEC Tariff Multiplexing Reference Per Access Minute Per Access Minute Pennsylvania 6 8 2 C 3 Common 6 8 2 C 4 Common M1 CENTURYLINK Transport Multiplexing Trunk Port Zone 1 Ohio OPERATING COMPANIES Zone 1 Ohio TARIFF F C C NO 9 M1 Pennsylvania Citizens Telephone of Kecksburg NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 Pennsylvania Consolidated Communications of Pennsylvania Company NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION M2 INC F C C NO 5 Pennsylvania N Commonwealth Telephone Company NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 N Pennsylvania THE 6 9 2 A Local VERIZON TELEPHONE Switching Shared End COMPANIES TARIFF Office Trunk per F C C NO 1 minute of use M2 M1 Material now appearing on this page previously appeared on Page 176 M2 Material previously appearing on this page now appears on Page 177 1 Issued May 11 2012 Effective Date May 12 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 177 1 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d Switched Access Service cont
35. 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 44 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions Certain terms used herein are defined as follows 800 Series Service 800 Series Service is a generic term for access services associated with toll free numbers which include 800 888 877 866 855 844 833 and 822 800 Series Data Base Access Service 800 Series Data Base Access Service is a generic term for data base access services associated with toll free numbers which include 800 888 877 866 855 844 833 and 822 Access Code The term Access Code with the exception of Feature Group B FGB with an Abbreviated Dial Arrangement ADA denotes a uniform access code assigned by a Telephone Company to an individual Customer in the form of 10XXX or 101 XXX X and 950 XXXX Access Minutes For the purpose of calculating chargeable usage the term Access Minutes denotes Customer usage of exchange facilities in the provision of Interstate or foreign service On the originating end of an Interstate or foreign call usage is measured from the time the originating end user s call is delivered by the Company to and acknowledged as received by the Customer s facilities connected with the originating exchange On the terminating end of an Interstate or foreign cal
36. 31 Original 17 Original 56 Original 94 Original 132 Original 18 Original 57 Original 95 Original 133 Original 19 Original 58 Original 96 Original 134 Original 20 Original 59 Original 97 Original 135 Original 21 Original 60 Original 98 Original 136 Original 22 Original 61 Original 99 Original 137 Original 23 Original 62 Original 100 Original 138 Original 24 Original 63 Original 101 Original 139 Original 25 Original 64 Original 102 Original 140 Original 26 Original 65 Original 103 Original 141 Original 27 Original 66 Original 104 Original 142 Original 28 Original 67 Original 105 Original 143 Original 29 Original 68 Original 106 Original 144 Original 30 Original 69 Original 107 Original 145 Original 31 Original 70 Original 108 Original 146 Original 33 Original 71 Original 109 Original 147 Original 34 Original 72 Original 110 Original 148 Original 35 Original 73 Original 111 Original 149 Original 36 Original 74 Original 112 Original 150 Original 37 Original 75 Original 113 Original 151 Original 38 Original 76 Original 114 Original 152 Original 39 Original 77 Original 115 Original 153 Original New or Revised Page Issued May 11 2012 Effective Date May 12 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Page 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 177 1 178 179 179 1 180 180 1 18
37. 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 2 Moves 5 4 3 A move involves a change in the physical location of one 1 of the following The point of termination at the Customer designated premises The Customer designated premises The charges for the move are dependent on whether the move is to a new location within the same building or to a different building A Moves Within the Same Building When the move is to a new location within the same building the charge for the move will be an amount equal to one half 1 2 of the installation nonrecurring charge for the capacity affected This charge is in addition to the Access Order Charge There will be no change in the minimum period requirements Moves to a Different Building Moves to a different building will be treated as a discontinuance and start of service and all associated nonrecurring charges will apply New minimum period requirements will be established for the new service The Customer will also remain responsible for satisfying all outstanding minimum period charges for the discontinued service Mileage Measurement Mileage Measurement Charges are set forth in Section 7 Exceptions to the mileage measurement rules are as follows A Alternate Traffic Routing When the Alternate Traffic Routing optional feature is provided the Local Transport access minutes will be apportioned between the two trunk groups used to provide this feature Such apportionment will be
38. ATING CARRIERS NONE REGISTERED SERVICE MARKS NONE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS NONE EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS C Indicates Changed Regulation D Indicates Discontinued Rate or Regulation D Indicates Rate Increase M Indicates Move in Location of Text N Indicates New Rate or Regulation R Indicates Rate Reduction T Indicates Change of Text Only Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc ICB Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 9 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviated Dialing Arrangement Actual Measured Loss Automatic Number Identification Program Audio American Telephone and Telegraph Company Busy Hour Minutes of Capacity Customer Designated Premises Channel Interface Central Office Continued Customer Provided Equipment Directory Assistance Decibel Decibel Reference Noise C Message Weighting Decibel Reference Noise C Message Weighted O direct current Direct Distance Dialing Extended Area Service Envelope Delay Distortion Expected Measured Loss Echo Path Loss Echo Return Loss Electronic Switching System Electronic Switching System Exchange Frequency Federal Communications Commission High Capacity Hertz Interexchange Carrier Individual Case Basis Issued October 3 2011 By James D M
39. Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Title Page ARMSTRONG TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC TARIFF FOR INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 1 Cancels Original Page 1 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES CHECK SHEET The title page and pages 1 194 of this Tariff are effective as of the date shown Original and revised pages as named below contain all changes that are in effect on the date indicated Page Revision Page Revision Page Revision Page Revision 1 First 40 Original 78 Original 116 Original 2 First 41 Original 79 Original 117 Original 3 Original 42 Original 80 Original 118 Original 4 Original 43 Original 81 Original 119 Original 5 Original 44 Original 82 Original 120 Original 6 Original 45 Original 83 Original 121 Original 7 Original 46 Original 84 Original 122 Original 8 Original 47 Original 85 Original 123 Original 9 Original 48 Original 86 Original 124 Original 10 Original 49 Original 87 Original 125 Original 11 Original 50 Original 88 Original 126 Original 12 Original 51 Original 89 Original 127 Original 13 Original 52 Original 90 Original 128 Original 14 Original 53 Original 91 Original 129 Original 15 Original 54 Original 92 Original 130 Original 16 Original 55 Original 93 Original 1
40. By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 48 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d C Notched Noise The term C Notched Noise denotes the C message frequency weighted noise on a voice channel with a holding tone which is removed at the measuring end through a notch very narrow band filter Coin Station See Pay Telephone Committed Information Rate The term Committed Information Rate denotes the transmission speed specified by the Customer at which the Frame Relay Access Service network commits to transfer data between two 2 ports Common Line The term Common Line denotes a line trunk pay telephone line or other facility provided under the general and or local exchange service Tariffs of the Company terminated on a central office switch A common line residence is a line or trunk provided under the residence regulations of the General and or Local Exchange Service Tariffs A common line business is a line provided under the business regulations of the General and or Local Exchange Service Tariffs Common Channel Signaling The term Common Channel Signaling CCS denotes a high speed packet switched communications network which is separate out of band from the public packet switched and message networks Its purpose is to ca
41. C C NO 6 Lexington Kentucky East Lexington Maryland THE VERIZON 6 9 2 A Local Switching TELEPHONE COMPANIES Premium Rates LS2 TARIFF F C C NO 1 Feature Group D Ohio AMERITECH 6 9 2 B End Office OPERATING COMPANIES Bundled Local Switching TARIFF F C C NO 2 Premium Rates LS2 Per Access Minute Ohio CENTURYLINK 6 8 3 Local Switching OPERATING COMPANIES Premium Rates LS2 Ohio TARIFF F C C NO 9 Ohio Frontier Telephone 4 6 3 B End Office Companies TARIFF F C C Services End Office NO 5 Switching Bundled ESOB Premium EOS1 and EOS2 Rates Ohio Nova Telephone 17 2 3 A End Office 17 2 3 B End N M Company NATIONAL Local Switching Premium Office Information EXCHANGE CARRIER Rate Band 7 Surcharge Premium ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 N M M Material previously appearing on this page now appears on Page 180 1 Issued May 11 2012 Effective Date May 12 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 180 1 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d N 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 4 End Office A Local Switching Premium Per Access Minute Rate Band Information Surcharge Premium Per 100 Access Minutes Local Switching Pb etia urcharge
42. CCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d C Chargeable Optional Features Where facilities permit the Company will at the option of the Customer provide the following chargeable optional features 1 Operator Transfer Services Operator Transfer Service may be provided with Feature Group D Switched Access Service at Company designated operator services location Operator Transfer Service is an originating service The rate is assessed per zero minus 0 call transferred to a Customer s operator A zero minus 0 call is considered transferred when the Company operator activates the switch transferring the call to the designated Customer and the Customer acknowledges receipt In addition to the Operator Transfer Service Charge described above and in Section 5 4 5 Feature Group D Switched Access Service rates and charges as set forth in Section 5 4 1 and Carrier Common Line Charges will apply per minute of use for Operator Transfer Service Operator Transfer Service Charges provided for in this Tariff are applied only to those calls actually transferred by the Company to the Customer s operator 2 800 Series Data Base Access Service 800 Series Data Base Access Service is provided to all Customers in conjunction with FGD Switched Access Service When a 1 800 NXX XXXX call is originated by an end user the Company will utilize the Signaling System 7 SS7 network to query an 800 serie
43. CCS SS7 Port Terminations will be treated as a new Access Order for the increased amount only If order changes are necessary to satisfy the transmission performance for a Special Access Service ordered by a Customer these changes will be made without order change charges being incurred by the Customer Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 76 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 4 Charges Associated with Access Ordering cont d 3 4 3 Access Order Change Charges cont d A Service Date Change The Customer may request a change of service date on a pending Access Order prior to the service date A change of service date is a change of the scheduled service date by the Customer to either an earlier date or a later date which does not exceed thirty 30 calendar days from the original service date If the Company determines that the Customer s request can be accommodated without delaying the service dates for orders of other Customers the service date will be changed and the Service Date Change Charge will be applied to the order If the service date is changed to an earlier date and the Company determines additional labor or extraordinary costs are necessary to meet the earlier service date requested by th
44. CES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 3 Special Access Service cont d 17 3 2 Digital Data Service A Channel Termination Per Termination Monthly Non recurring Rate Charge 2 4 kbps ICB ICB 4 8 kbps ICB ICB 9 6 kbps ICB ICB 19 2 kbps ICB ICB 56 0 kbps ICB ICB 64 0 kbps ICB ICB B Channel Mileage 1 Channel Mileage Facility Per Mile Monthly Rate 2 4 kbps ICB 4 8 kbps ICB 9 6 kbps ICB 19 2 kbps ICB 56 0 kbps ICB 64 0 kbps ICB 2 Channel Mileage Termination Per Termination Monthly Rate 2 4 kbps ICB 4 8 kbps ICB 9 6 kbps ICB 19 2 kbps ICB 56 0 kbps ICB 64 0 kbps ICB Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 185 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 3 Special Access Service cont d 17 3 2 Digital Data Service cont d C Optional Features and Functions Monthly Rate 1 Bridging Per Port ICB 2 Loop Transfer Arrangement Per four port arrangement ICB 3 Public Packet Switching Network Interface Arrangement per 9 6 Kbps ICB per 56 0 Kbps ICB 4 Channel Service Unit per Termination 2 4 Kbps ICB 4 8 Kbps ICB 9 5 Kbps ICB 56 0 Kbps ICB Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011
45. CESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 1 Description and Application of Rate cont d B Non recurring Charges cont d 6 For additions changes or modifications to optional features that do not have their own separate non recurring charges an Access Order Charge will apply 7 When an optional feature is not required on each transmission path but rather for an entire transmission path group an end office or an access tandem switch only one such charge will apply i e it will not apply per transmission path 8 For conversion of FGD trunks from multi frequency address signaling to SS7 signaling or from SS7 signaling to multi frequency address signaling non recurring charges will apply C Application of Rates 1 Per Minute Rates Per minute rates apply to all access minutes that originate or terminate at end offices In addition per minute rates always apply to the following local transport rate elements Tandem Switched Facility Tandem Switched Termination Tandem Switching Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 106 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 1 Description and App
46. CO uites tede rere oven e YR cdenes oben POE dense EE rege uae ex Doer vereda 182 17 3 1 VOICE Grade Service ens ie te erro cott e tbe e Le P be Dire ne BU Er e Ee REFER EE DRE FE bein 182 17 3 2 Digital Data Servicen t i eet E REIR Hes oe UR EGRE tene 184 17 3 3 High Capacity Srv Ce eerte teoei eee rere eret ige sette pese Pep eire ever EAEE edd 186 17 4 Other Services d cse ETE test eod ueceete E eet e e ya eo yore rere e ERE eR Ye e 188 17 4 1 Access Orderin a eerie esteetetotetoee poe eee ect seh dept Hore rss plots bae eR Ve babe ORE EEan 188 17 4 2 Additional Engineering seniii eee e deos eee i e leve tube teet cu 189 17 4 3 Additional A O ortis totes a tote ies a aa dette geo tr ete reser rU 189 17 4 4 Miscellaneous Services eo ee e ee tec exse ea deer een ee era a vere ve ede ey Een 191 17 4 5 Special Facilities Routing of Access Services nennen 192 17 4 6 Specialized Service or Arrangements esses rennen nennen nennen 193 17 5 End User Access Service s eese scr teer ter o reete rore deer ree ades ae ende 193 17 5 1 End User Common Line Charges iei ettet eee tope A EEEE REEE SS 193 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 8 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES CONCURRING CARRIERS NONE CONNECTING CARRIERS NONE OTHER PARTICIP
47. Company in its own efforts to project further facility requirements G When a customer orders Switched Access Service in trunks the customer is responsible to assure that sufficient access facilities have been ordered to handle its traffic Operator Transfer Service Optional Feature When FGD Switched Access Service is ordered with the Operator Transfer Service optional feature as set forth in Section 5 4 5 following the Customer must specify the number of trunks desired between its premises and the Company operator services location Operator Transfer Service is provided where available SS7 Optional Feature When FGD Switched Access Service is ordered with the SS7 optional feature the Customer shall specify a reference to existing signaling connections or reference a related SS7 signaling connection order When ordering S57 signaling the Customer shall provide the Signaling Transfer Point STP codes location identifier codes and circuit identifier codes In addition the Customer shall work cooperatively with the Company to determine the number of S57 signaling connections required to handle its signaling traffic Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 70 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 32 Ordering Require
48. Customer has Switched Access Service between a Customer designated premises and an end office that is multiplexed at a Company hub and subsequently orders the derived channels as Special and Switched Access Service rates and charges will apply as if the service were ordered as mixed use Except as noted above the high capacity facility will be ordered provided and rated as Special Access Service 1 e Channel Termination Channel Mileage as appropriate and Multiplexing Arrangement The non recurring charge that applies when the mixed use facility is installed will be the non recurring charge associated with the appropriate special access high capacity channel termination Rating as special access will continue until such time as the Customer chooses to use a portion of the available capacity for Switched Access Service Individual service 1 e Switched or Special Access non recurring charges will not apply to the individual channels of the mixed use facility When Special Access Service is provided utilizing a channel of the mixed use facility to a hub high capacity rates and charges will apply for the facility to the hub as set forth preceding and individual service rates and charges will apply from the hub to the Customer designated premises The rates and charges that will apply to the portion from the hub to the Customer designated premises will be dependent on the specific type of Special Access Service that is provided e g Voice Gra
49. Ds eee eret ete OUR a teeta eere rede e eder aieo dite ee dee eee tute ves te Sees 44 Se ction 3 Access Ordering aonta ee pai iere te etes ice Eee ee e Ne ee t ec det Taea 65 3 1 General Desctiptiori uU UR e d RE eres 65 3 1 1 Ordering Conditions odit dete eed tet eroe erg tcs Lore eoe a hated 65 3 1 2 Service Installation 2 E eri tee tme ttd tette reels Roe p e eee c geg 65 3 1 3 Expedited Orders 5 e e ee ptor e les tases eee rele lee d Pepe 66 3 1 4 Selection of Facilities for Access Order essere 67 3 2 Ordering Requirements ed eite ete eee o Ete Te Ee Een re o Leone SED geet eh de 68 32 1 Switched Access Service c ioter cime tpe tt eto ee eerie EAE eite lesione svete 68 3 2 2 Operator Transfer Service Optional Features 69 3 2 3 S57 Optional Eeatures iere tree eerte e to ete t e Peek e be teeta 69 3 2 4 800 Data Base Access Servicen nenacia e a a A nnne nennen enne 70 3 2 5 Special Access SerVIGe assin nten nere dete etse et estet e E etae HERR RE Ede cu EO Pte poo te dee CUR ani 70 3 2 6 Miscellaneous SetVices ennonn nan a denen alain indecent 70 3 3 Access Orders For Services Provided By More Than One Company 71 3 4 Charges Associated with Access Ordering 73 3 4 1 Access Order Ch tge tte e oto eie Pete e beoe tiet Euer aee 73 3 4 2 Miscellaneous Service Order Charge esee 74 3 4 3 Access Order Change Charges esee een
50. ER Tee laters neces 2a 153 8 1 3 Diversity and Avoidance Combined eene 153 Section 9 Specialized Service or Arrangements 0 cee ceecescceseceeeeeseeeeseeeseecseecsaecnsecaecsseesseeseeeneeseeeeees 154 9 1 Generalz coe oh teretes inn titre eA TU E tet AT tros 154 Section 10 Additional Engineering Additional Labor and Miscellaneous Services 155 10 1 Additional Engineering sisii reed oet fi dede Slants ide tee Etre eee rd 155 10 2 Additonal Labor rdiet ee ete ee cares hav hotel caveat sce kee eee 156 10 2 1 Overtime Installation eee et eere eU eee dete eene te ree e De ea 156 10 2 2 Ov rtme BRepalr i ccce eoe ceo ane nt eode ae ee pen Te ET ODD e EHI Rt eO Pee TEARI E doe 156 10 2 3 Stand DY EE 156 10 2 4 Testing and Maintenance with Other Companies seen 156 10 2 5 Other Labor 2 ee eere er erepti ete Duet iore tito ee I Let Le aget sede 157 10 3 Miscellaneous Services e or eret EVER hs ei E P GINE eee ec 157 10 3 1 stie SerVICeS 22 cache etel ee rie Pere NE ee UPPER Eger ter ee Pe EE e TENE Pepe Eee 157 10 3 2 Maintenance of Service sis idi eet eei e ence a seco ote netgeee eed 161 10 3 3 Telecommunications Service Priority TSP essere ene 162 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tarif
51. ERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 6 PRESUBSCRIPTION SERVICE cont d 6 1 Presubscription contd C Verification of Orders for Long Distance Telemarketing Cont d 4 Within three 3 business days of the billed party s request for a primary toll provider change the chosen toll provider must send the requesting party an information package by first class mail which includes a statement that the enclosed information is being sent to confirm a telemarketing order placed by the billed party within the previous week the name of the current and soliciting toll provider the terms conditions or charges for the primary toll provider change the name of the person who ordered the change the name address and telephone number of both the customer and the soliciting toll provider a statement advising the billed party that absent their response the change will be implemented fourteen 14 days from the date the information package was mailed to them and the name address and telephone number of a contact point at the FCC for consumer complaints The toll provider must provide a postpaid postcard with which the billed party can use to deny cancel or confirm the order The toll provider must wait fourteen 14 days after the information package is mailed to the billed party before submitting the change order to the Company Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President O
52. ICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 3 SS7Local Transport cont 2 800 Series Data Base Access Service Queries cont d 8XX Data Base Query 8XX Data Base Query State ILEC Tariff Reference Basic Per Query Vertical Per Query Ohio CENTURYLINK OPERATING COMPANIES TARIFF F C C NO 9 6 8 4 A TFC Access Service Data Base Query Ohio 6 8 4 B TFC Data Base Optional Service Features Ohio Ohio Frontier Telephone Companies TARIFF F C C NO 5 4 6 3 A Basic Toll Free Data Base Ohio 4 6 3 A Premium Toll Free Data Base Ohio Ohio Nova Telephone Company NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Basic 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Vertical Feature Pennsylvania CENTURYLINK OPERATING COMPANIES TARIFF F C C NO 9 6 8 4 A TFC Access Service Data Base Query Pennsylvania 6 8 4 B TFC Data Base Optional Service Features Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Citizens Telephone of Kecksburg NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Basic 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Vertical Feature Pennsylvania Commonwealth Telephone Company NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIAT
53. ION INC F C C NO 5 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Basic 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Vertical Feature M Material previously appearing on this page now appears on Page 179 1 Issued May 11 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Effective Date May 12 2012 N N M Armstrong Telecommunications Inc INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 3 SS7Local Transport cont 2 800 Series Data Base Access Service Queries cont d 8XX Data Base 8XX Data Base State ILEC Tariff Reference Query Basic Per Query Query Vertical Per Query Pennsylvania Consolidated Communications of Pennsylvania Company NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Basic 17 2 2 B 800 Data Base Access Service Queries Per Query Vertical Feature Pennsylvania THE VERIZON TELEPHONE COMPANIES TARIFF F C C NO 1 6 9 1 N Toll Free Data Base Access Service Basic Query Charge per Query 6 9 1 N Toll Free Data Base Vertical Feature Package VFP per Query Pennsylvania Verizon 6 6 7 Q 6 6 7 Q VERIZON TELEPHONE Miscellaneous Miscellaneous COMPANIES TARIFF Swi
54. Interface Combinations Issued March 1989 TR INS 000342 High Capacity Digital Special Access Service Issued February 1991 SR STDS 000307 NC NCI Code Dictionary Issued December 1990 The following technical publication is referenced in this Tariff and may be obtained from the Bell Communications Technical Education Center Room B02 6200 Route 53 Lisle IL 60532 Telecommunications Transmission Engineering Volume 3 Networks and Services Chapters 6 and 7 Second Edition 1980 Issued June 1980 The following technical publication is referenced in this Tariff and may be obtained from the National Exchange Carrier Association Inc Director Tariff and Regulatory Matters 100 So Jefferson Road Whippany NJ 07981 and the Federal Communications Commission s commercial contractor PUB AS No 1 Issue II Access Service Issued May 1984 Addendum March 1987 TR TSY 000506 LATA Switching Systems Generic Requirements LSSGR Section 6 Issued October 1987 Revised December 1988 Revised June 1990 The following publications are referenced in this Tariff and may be obtained from the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents Document Control Branch 941 N Capital St N E Washington D C 20401 Telecommunications Service Priority TSP System for National Security Emergency Preparedness NSEP Service Vendor Handbook National Communications System NCSH 3 1 2 Issued July 1990 Available August 1990 Telecommu
55. Loss parameters are delineated in Technical Reference TR TS Y 000335 E Signaling Capability Signaling Capability provides for the ability to transmit signals from one Customer premises to another Customer premises on the same service F Selective Signaling Arrangement An arrangement that permits code selective ringing for up to ten 10 codes on a multipoint service Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 133 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description cont d 7 2 1 Voice Grade Service cont d 7 2 1 2 Optional Features and Functions cont d G Transfer Arrangement A transfer arrangement affords the Customer an additional measure of flexibility in the use of an access channel s The arrangement can be utilized to transfer a leg of a Special Access Service to another channel that terminates in either the same or a different Customer premises key activated or dial up control service is required to operate the transfer arrangement A spare channel if required is not included as part of the option 7 2 2 Digital Data Service EPUM Issued October 3 2011 Basic Channel Description A digital data channel is for duplex four 4 wire transmission of synchronous serial data
56. Multi Point Service cont d Multi Point Service utilizing a customized technical specifications package will be provided when technically possible If the Company determines that the requested parameter specifications are not compatible the Customer will be advised and given an opportunity to change the order When a customized channel is ordered the Customer will be notified whether Additional Engineering Charges apply In such cases the Customer will be advised and given the opportunity to change the order When ordering the Customer will specify the desired bridging hub s Channel Terminations one 1 per Customer designated premises Channel Mileage as applicable between the serving wire center for each Customer designated premises and the hub and between hubs Bridging Additional Optional Features and Functions when applicable Alternate Use Alternate Use occurs when a service is arranged by the Company so that the Customer can select different types of transmission at different times A Customer may use a service in any privately beneficial manner However where technical or engineering changes are required to effectuate an alternate use the Company will make such special arrangements available on an individual case basis The arrangement required to transfer the service from one operation to the other i e the transfer relay and control leads will be rated and provided on an individual case basis The Customer will pay
57. NXX codes FGD may not be switched in the terminating direction to another Trunk side Switched Access Service Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 84 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 1 Description and Provision of Switched Access Service Arrangements cont d A Description cont d 4 The Company will establish a trunk group or groups for the Customer at end office switches or access tandem switches where FGD switching is provided When required by technical limitations a separate trunk group will be established for each type of FGD switching arrangement provided Different types of FGD or other switching arrangements may be combined in a single group at the option of the Company 5 The access code for FGD switching is a uniform access code of the form 10XXX or 101 XXXX These uniform access codes will be the assigned access numbers of all FGD access provided to the Customer by the Company No access code is required for calls to a customer over FGD Switched Access Service if the end user s telephone service is arranged for presubscription to that Customer Where no access code is required the number dialed by the Customer s end user shall be a seven 7 or ten 10 digit
58. New minimum period requirements will be established for the new services The Customer will also remain responsible for satisfying all outstanding minimum period charges for the discontinued service Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 149 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 4 Mileage Measurement Special Access will be billed to Customers under two 2 options The first option is where the Company will provision and provide a special access circuit from end to end and will bill all mileage at Company s Access Charge rates The second option is where the Company will only provision the portion of the special access circuit that uses Company facilities In this case the Customer would be required to obtain the other portion of special access circuit from the other Company ies needed to provision the required services The applicable mileage option will be the Company s discretion for each special access circuit ordered Option I Company provided and provisioned special access circuit from end to end The mileage used to determine the monthly Channel Mileage Facility rate is calculated on the airline distance between the locations involved i e the serving wire centers associated with two
59. PL 000258 The Customer may receive inband multi wink or expanded inband coin control signaling where available from end offices served by an Operator Services Access Point Different signaling types cannot be mixed on a signal trunk group All non recurring and usage sensitive rates and charges normally applicable to FGD apply to Operator Transfer Service Additionally a charge as specified in Section 5 1 3 is assessed the Customer per zero minus 0 call transferred Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 117 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 5 Chargeable Optional Features cont d B Common Channel Signaling Signaling System 7 Network Connection Service CCSNC Common Channel Signaling Signaling System 7 CCS SS7 Network Connection Service CCSNC where technically feasible provides a signaling path between a Customer s designated Signaling Point of Interface SPOTI and a Signaling Transfer Point STP This service provides Customers with the use of a two 2 way signaling path for accessing information necessary for the completion of their end user s calls CCS SS7 Network Connection Service is comprised of two 2 rate elements a Signaling Network A
60. Page 115 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features cont d 5 4 4 3 Local Transport Options cont d E Charge Number Parameter CNP The CN Parameter is equivalent to the existing ten 10 digit Automatic Number Identification ANI available with FGD with MF signaling The CN Parameter provides for the automatic transmission of the ten 10 digit billing number of the calling station and the originating line information This feature is provided with originating FGD with S57 signaling Feature Group D with 950 Access This option provides for the routing of originating calls dialed using a 950 1IX XX or 950 OXXX access code to the FGD Customer using FGD signaling protocols and technical specifications The Customer is responsible for distinguishing between standard FGD calls and 950 dialed calls delivered over the same trunks 5 4 5 Chargeable Optional Features A Operator Transfer Service At the option of the Customer Operator Transfer Service as specified following is available for use with Feature Group D Switched Access Service Operator Transfer Service is ordered as set forth in Section 3 2 preceding and is provided to the Customer via separate FGD trunks dedicated to Operator Transfer Service traffic Operator Transfer Service is an arrangement in which Company operators transfer 0 minus
61. Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 189 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 4 Other Services cont d 17 4 2 Additional Engineering Additional Engineering Periods A Basic Time per engineer normally scheduled working hours B Overtime per engineer outside of normally scheduled working hours C Premium Time outside of scheduled work day per engineer First Half Hour or Fraction Thereof ICB ICB ICB These labor charges are applicable for the following Additional Cooperative Acceptance testing Additional Manual Testing Maintenance of Service 17 4 3 Additional Labor Additional Labor Periods A Installation or Repair Overtime outside of normally scheduled working hours on a scheduled work day per technician Premium Time outside of scheduled work day per technician Issued October 3 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 First Half Hour or Fraction Thereof ICB ICB Effective Date October 4 2011 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 190 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 4 Other Services cont d 17 4 3 Additional Labor cont d First Half Hour or B Stand by Fraction Thereof Basic time normally scheduled work
62. STIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 2 Ordering Options and Conditions Switched Access Service is ordered under the Access Order provisions set forth in Section 3 Also included in that Section are regulations concerning Miscellaneous Service Order Charges which may be associated with Switched Access Service ordering e g Service Date Change Cancellation etc Rate Categories There are three 3 rate categories which apply to Switched Access Service Local Transport End Office Chargeable Optional Features Following is a description of the rate categories for the facilities required to provide Switched Access Services to the Customer A Local Transport The Local Transport rate category establishes the charges related to the transmission and tandem switching facilities between the Customer designated premises and the Company s local switching equipment where the Customer s traffic is switched to originate or terminate the Customer s communications Mileage measurements are set forth in Section 5 4 3 following and in this Section Local transport is a two 2 way voice frequency transmission path composed of facilities determined by the Company The two 2 way voice frequency transmission path permits the transport of calls in the originating direction from the end user end office switch to the Customer designated premises and in the terminating direction
63. Service If service has been discontinued for nonpayment or as otherwise provided herein and the Customer wishes it continued service shall at the Company s discretion be restored when all past due amounts are paid or the event giving rise to the discontinuance if other than nonpayment is corrected If a service is disconnected by the Company in accordance with Section 2 9 preceding and later restored restoration of service will be subject to all applicable installation charges Changes in Equipment and Services Upon receipt of a written request from Customer Company will add delete or change locations or features of specific circuits and or equipment Customer shall be liable for non recurring charges for such change If a request for deletion of a service represents a cancellation prior to the applicable term of service Customer will be subject to Company s termination charges Use of Recording Devices Customer and Authorized Users who use recording devices do so at their own risk A Customer or Authorized User may only use a recording device if the Customer or Authorized User complies with the requirements of this section and only if the Customer or Authorized User is able to connect or disconnect the recording device or turn the recording device on or off at will A A Customer or Authorized User may record a conversation if the Customer or Authorized User obtains written or verbal consent to the recording of all parti
64. State ILEC Tariff Reference N Pennsylvania 6 8 3 Local Switching M1 CENTURYLINK Premium Rates LS2 OPERATING COMPANIES Pennsylvania TARIFF F C C NO 9 M1 Pennsylvania Citizens 17 2 3 A End Office 17 2 3 B End M2 Telephone of Kecksburg Local Switching Office Information NATIONAL EXCHANGE Premium Rate Band 3 Surcharge Premium CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 M2 Pennsylvania 17 2 3 A End Office 17 2 3 B End N Commonwealth Telephone Local Switching Office Information Company NATIONAL Premium Rate Band 2 Surcharge Premium EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 N M1 Material now appearing on this page previously appeared on Page 180 M2 Material now appearing on this page previously appeared on Page 181 Issued May 11 2012 Effective Date May 12 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 4 End Office cont d A Local Switching Premium Per Access Minute Rate Band Information Surcharge Premium Per 100 Access Minutes Local Switching ab udo urcharge State ILEC Tariff Reference Pennsylvania 17 2 3 A End Office 17 2 3 B Consolidated Local Switching Information Communica
65. Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 2 Local Transport cont d Premium Access cont d Tandem Switched Transport Tandem Switched Facility Per Access Minute Per Mile Tandem Switched Termination Per Access Minute Per Termination Tandem Switching M Material now appearing on this page previously appeared on Page 173 Issued May 11 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Transport Transport Switched State ILEC Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Transport Tariff Reference Facility per Termination Per Switching Per Access Minute per Terminadon Tandem Mile Kentucky 17 2 2 A Local 17 2 2 A Local 17 2 2 A Local WINDSTREAM Transport Transport Premium Transport TELEPHONE Premium Access Access Tandem Premium Access SYSTEM Tandem Switched Switched Transport Tandem Switched TARIFF F C C Transport Tandem Tandem Switched Transport NO 6 Switched Facility Termination Tandem Windstream Windstream Switching Kentucky East Kentucky East Windstream Lexington Lexington Kentucky East Lexington Maryland THE 6 9 1 B Switched 6 9 1 B Switched 6 9 1 B Switched VERIZON Transport Tandem Transport Tandem Transport TELEPHONE Switched Switched Transport Tandem Switched COMPANIES Transport Tandem Tandem Transport Transport TARIFF F C C Trans
66. Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 62 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Signal Transfer Point STP The term Signal Transfer Point STP denotes a packet switch which provides access to the Company s SS7 network and performs SS7 message signal routing and screening Signal Transfer Point STP Port The term Signal Transfer Point STP Port denotes the point of termination and interconnection to the STP Signaling Return Loss The term Signaling Return Loss denotes the frequency weighted measure of return loss at the edges of the voiceband 200 to 500 Hz and 2500 to 3200 Hz where singing instability problems are most likely to occur Special Order The term Special Order denotes an order for a Directory Assistance Service Standard PVC The term Standard PVC denotes the interconnection of ports on the same frame relay switch Subtending End Office of an Access Tandem The term Subtending End Office of an Access Tandem denotes an end office that has final trunk group routing through that tandem Synchronous Test Line The term Synchronous Test Line denotes an arrangement in an end office which performs marginal operational tests of supervisory and ring tripping functions Tandem Switched Transport The term Tandem Switched Transport denotes transport from the serving wire center to the end office or from the tandem to the end office that is s
67. Transport Premium Access Tandem Switched Transport End Switched Multiplexing Office Common Trunk Windstream Kentucky Port Windstream East Lexington Kentucky East Lexington Maryland THE 6 9 2 A Local VERIZON TELEPHONE Switching Shared End COMPANIES TARIFF Office Trunk per F C C NO 1 minute of use Ohio AMERITECH 6 9 1 A Switched 6 9 2 C 1 End Office OPERATING Transport Usage Charges Trunk Ports Common COMPANIES TARIFF Premium Rates Common Trunk Port F C C NO 2 Multiplexing Ohio Zone 4 Ohio CENTURYLINK 6 8 2 C 3 Common 6 8 2 C 4 Common OPERATING Transport Multiplexing Trunk Port Zone 1 Ohio COMPANIES TARIFF Zone 1 Ohio F C C NO 9 Ohio Frontier Telephone Companies TARIFF F C C NO 5 4 6 2 D Shared Multiplexing Ohio 4 6 3 E Shared Trunk Port Ohio Ohio Nova Telephone Company NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 M Material previously appearing on this page now appears on Page 177 Issued May 11 2012 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 By Effective Date May 12 2012 N M N M Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 177 Cancels Original Page 177 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2
68. all processing functions which service itself and its Remote Switching Modules Systems Hub A wire center at which bridging or multiplexing functions are performed for Customers served out of any wire center Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 55 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Impedance Balance The term Impedance Balance denotes the method of expressing Echo Return Loss and Singing Return Loss at a 4 wire interface whereby the gains and or loss of the 4 wire portion of the transmission path including the hybrid are not included in the specification Impulse Noise The term Impulse Noise denotes any momentary occurrence of the noise on a channel over a specified level threshold It is evaluated by counting the number of occurrences which exceed the threshold Individual Case Basis The term Individual Case Basis denotes a condition in which the regulations if applicable rates and charges for an offering under the provisions of this Tariff are developed based on the circumstances in each case Initial Address Message The term Initial Address Message denotes an SS7 message sent in the forward direction to initiate trunk set up reserve an outgoing trunk and process the inf
69. angement Monthly Rate DS4 to DS1 ICB DS3 to DS1 ICB DS2 to DS1 ICB DS1C to DS1 ICB DS1 to Voice ICB DS1 to DSO ICB DSO to Subrates 2 4 Kbps ICB 4 8 ICB 9 6 ICB 2 Transfer Arrangement Per Four Port Arrangement ICB 3 Automatic Loop Transfer Per Arrangement ICB 4 NCTE 1 544 Mbps per termination ICB Automatic Loop Transfer ICB 5 High Capacity Term Discounts DS1 or DS3 Recurring 3 Year 1096 DS1 or DS3 Recurring 5 Year 20 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 188 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 4 Other Services 17 4 1 Access Ordering A Access Order Charge Charge Per Order ICB B Service Date Change Charge A Service Date Change Charge will apply on a per order per occurrence basis for each service date changed The Access Order Charge as specified in 17 4 1 A preceding does not apply Per Order ICB C Design Change Charge The Design Change Charge will apply On per order per occurrence basis for each order requiring design change Per Order ICB D Miscellaneous Service Order Charge Per Occurrence ICB Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler
70. angements amp Credit Allowances cont d 2 7 1 Payments of Rates Charges amp Deposits cont d D Taxes and Fees The Company reserves the right to bill any and all applicable taxes and fees in addition to normal rates and charges for services provided to the Customer Taxes and fees include but are not limited to Federal Excise Tax State Sales Tax Municipal Tax and Gross Receipts Tax Such taxes and fees are in addition to rates as quoted in this Tariff and will be itemized separately on Customer invoices 2 7 2 Credit Allowance for Service Interruption A Aninterruption period begins when the Customer reports a circuit service or facility to be interrupted and releases it for testing and repair An interruption period ends when the circuit service or facility is operative If the Customer reports an interruption but declines to release the circuit service or facility for testing and repair the circuit service or facility will be considered impaired but not interrupted B Acredit allowance is applied on a pro rata basis dependent on the duration of the interruption against the monthly recurring charges payable by Customer under this Tariff and shall be expressly indicated on the next Customer bill Only those facilities on an interrupted portion of a circuit service or facility will receive a credit C Forthe calculation of credit allowance every month is considered to have thirty 30 days Issued Octobe
71. arges i e non recurring monthly and or usage including optional features and functions charges will be prorated between Interstate and Intrastate The percentage determined as set forth in Sections 2 3 9 or 2 3 10 following will serve as the basis for prorating the charges unless the Company is billing by jurisdiction according to actual measured usage The percentage of an access service to be charged as Interstate is applied in the following manner l For monthly and non recurring chargeable rate elements multiply the percent Interstate use times the quantity of chargeable elements times the stated Tariff rate 2 For usage sensitive 1 e access minutes and calls chargeable rate elements multiply the percent Interstate use times actual use i e measured times the stated Tariff rate 2 3 1 1Late Payments Further if any portion of the payment is received by the Company after the payment Due Date as set forth above or if any portion of the payment is received by the Company in funds which are not immediately available to the Company a late payment penalty shall be due the Company Any payment or portion thereof not received by the Due Date is subject to a late charge on the unpaid amount The late factor shall be the lesser of a the highest interest rate in decimal value which may be levied by law for commercial transactions compounded daily for the number of days from the payment date to and including the date that the cust
72. ariff F C C No 1 Original Page 163 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES cont d 10 3 Miscellaneous Services cont d 10 3 3 Telecommunications Service Priority TSP Cont d The TSP System is a service developed to meet the requirements of the Federal Government as specified in the Service Vendor s Handbook and Service User s Manual which provides the regulatory administrative and operational framework for the priority installation and or restoration of NSEP telecommunications services These include both Switched and Special Access Services The TSP System applies only to NSEP Telecommunications Services and requires and authorizes priority action by the Company providing such services For Switched Access Service the TSP System s applicability is limited to those services the Company can discreetly identify for priority provisioning and or restoration A Telecommunications Service Priority Charge applies when a request to provide or change a Telecommunications Service Priority is received subsequent to the issuance of an access order to install the service Additionally a Miscellaneous Service Order Charge will apply to Telecommunications Service Priority requests that are ordered subsequent to the initial installation of the associated access service A Telecommunications Service Priority Charge does not apply when a Telecommunication
73. ary Residence Per Line 0 00 Non Primary Residence Per Line 0 00 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 194 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 5 End User Access Service cont d 17 5 1 End User Common Line Charges EUCL cont d B Single Line Business Subscriber Rate All States 0 00 C Multiline Business Subscriber Per Line All States 0 00 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001
74. ased on working hours A Miscellaneous Service Order Charge as described in previous Sections may be applicable to services ordered from this Section 10 1 Additional Engineering Additional Engineering including engineering reviews will be undertaken only after the Company has notified the Customer that Additional Engineering Charges apply and the Customer agrees to such charges Additional engineering will be provided by the Company at the request of the Customer only when A A Customer requests additional technical information after the Company has already provided the technical information normally included on the Design Layout Report DLR as set forth in Sections 6 1 5 and 7 1 6 preceding B Additional engineering time is incurred by the Company to engineer a Customer s request for a customized service as set forth in Section 7 1 2 preceding C A Customer requested design change requires the expenditure of additional engineering time Such additional engineering time is incurred by the Company for the engineering review as set forth in Section 3 4 3 preceding The charge for additional engineering time relating to the engineering review which is undertaken to determine if a design change is indeed required will apply whether or not the Customer authorizes the Company to proceed with the design change In this case the Design Change Charge does not apply unless the Customer authorizes the Company to proceed with the design chan
75. at its option can require a Customer to order access services that require the provisioning by more than one 1 Exchange Carrier to directly request such provisioning directly from each Exchange Carrier 2 3 14 Rating and Billing of Access Services Where More than One Company is Involved All charges for services provided by each Company are billed under each Exchange Carrier s applicable Tariffs Under a Meet Point Billing Arrangement the Company will bill for charges for traffic carried between the Company Tandem and the End User A Each Company will provide its portion of access service based on the regulations rates and charges contained in its respective Access Service Tariff B The application of non distance sensitive rate elements varies according to the rate structure and the location of the facilities involved C When rates and charges are listed on a per minute basis the Company s rates and charges will apply to traffic originating from the Customer s premises and terminating at the End User s premises and vice versa Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 34 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 4 Prohibited Use The Customer shall not use or allow the use of Company facilities or equipment ins
76. at the rate of 2 4 4 8 9 6 19 2 56 0 or 64 0 Kbps The actual bit rate is a function of the channel interface selected by the Customer The channel provides a synchronous service with timing provided by the Telephone Company through the Company s facilities to the Customer in the received bit stream Digital data channels are provided as either hubbed or non hubbed services between Customer designated premises or between a Customer designated premises and a Company hub or hubs where available The Customer may provide the channel service unit type equipment or other network channel terminating equipment associated with the digital data channel at the Customer premises Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 134 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description cont d 7 2 2 Special Access cont d 7 2 2 1 Tae Issued October 3 2011 Basic Channel Description cont d The Company will provide a channel capable of meeting a monthly average performance equal to or greater than 99 875 error free seconds if provided through a digital data hub while the channel is in service if it is measured through a CSU equivalent which is designed manufactured and maintained to conform with the specifications contained
77. ator Services traffic the PIU determined for the Customer s FGD service will be applied to the Customer s Operator Services charges Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 31 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 3 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 9 Jurisdictional Report Switched Access cont d C Directory Assistance Service When a Customer orders Directory Assistance Service the Customer shall in its order provide the PIU for terminating use in a whole number a number of 0 through 100 for each Directory Access Service group ordered A method the Customer may wish to adopt could be to use its terminating traffic from its premises to the involved Directory Assistance Location and calculate the PIU as set forth in paragraph B preceding D All Other Type of Access Service The Customer must provide the Company with a projected PIU for all other type of access including 500 700 800 888 900 etc 2 3 10 Determination of Jurisdiction of Mixed Use Special Access Service When an ASR is submitted for Interstate and Intrastate Special Access Service the Customer will provide to the Company an estimate of whether the Interstate traffic will comprise more than ten 10 percent or less than ten 10 percent of t
78. ccess Link SNAL and a Signaling Transfer Point STP Port The SNAL is provided as a dedicated 56 Kbps out of band signaling connection between the customer s SPOI and the STP port on the STP The CCS SS7 Network Connection Service is provisioned by a mated pair of STPs as described in Technical Reference TR TSV 000905 in order to ensure network availability and reliability The Company shall not be held liable for service outages if the Customer employs technology related to the interconnection of signaling networks that does not adhere to generally accepted industry technical standards When CCS SS7 Network Connection service is provisioned for use with SS7 Signaling interconnection between signaling networks must occur at an STP Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 118 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 5 Chargeable Optional Features cont d C Issued October 3 2011 800 Series Data Base Access Service 800 Series Data Base Access Service is provided with FGD Switched Access Service When a call using a toll free service access code SAC e g 12 800 or 888 NXX XXXX is originated by an end user the Company will utilize the Signaling System 7 SS7 ne
79. ce Business Per Telephone Exchange Service line or trunk 35 65 Public Semi Public Pay Telephone Line 57 57 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 192 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 4 Other Services cont d 17 4 4 Miscellaneous Services Non recurring Monthly Rate Charge F Originating Line Screening OLS 7 95 G Blocking Service 11 20 H Billing Name and Address Service per BNA Order 50 94 per BNA Record 00 33 per Magnetic Tape 91 44 Optional Programming per 1 2 hour 37 20 I Coin Supervision Additive Service per month 2 21 17 4 5 Special Facilities Routing of Access Services Reserved For Future Use Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 193 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 4 Other Services cont d 17 4 6 Specialized Service or Arrangements Rate Rate Specialized Service or Arrangements are provided on an ICB individual case basis 17 5 End User Access Service 17 5 1 End User Common Line Charges EUCL A Residential Subscriber Prim
80. ce Facility Charge is assessed on a per facility basis for the connection between the Customer s designated premises Signaling Point of Interface and the serving wire center of that premises The STP Port Charge is assessed on a per port basis for each termination of a signaling mileage facility at an STP Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 107 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 1 Description and Application of Rate cont d C Application of Rates cont d 4 Issued October 3 2011 800 Series Data Base Access Service A Basic Query or Vertical Feature Query Charge applies for each query that is launched to an 800 series database and identifies the Customer to whom the call will be delivered Query Charges will only be applied by those companies whose wire centers can perform such queries When FG D Switched Access Service is used for the provision of 800 Series Data Base Access Service and the total minutes of use and or count of queries can be determined for each Customer at a tandem or SSP but can not be determined by individual end offices an allocation method will be utilized to determine minutes of use and or queries by end office and Customer For
81. ces shall be in accordance with Part 64 Subpart D Appendix A of the Federal Communications Commission s Rules and Regulations which specifies the priority system for such activities Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 18 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 10 Liability A Limits of Liability The liability of the Company for damages arising out of the furnishing of its service including but not limited to mistakes outages omissions interruptions delays errors or other defects representations failures arising out of the use of these services or failure to furnish service whether caused by act omission or negligence shall be limited to the extension of such allowances as set forth in the section of this Tariff on Allowances for Interruptions in Service The extension of such allowance for interruption shall be the sole remedy of the Customer or other person and the sole liability of the Company The Company s entire liability if any for any claim loss damage or expense from any cause whatsoever shall in no event exceed sums actually paid Company by Customer for the specific services giving rise to the claim No action or proceeding against th
82. ched Access cont d A Issued October 3 2011 General cont d Effective on the first of January April July and October of each year the Customer shall update the Interstate jurisdictional report The Customer shall forward to the Company to be received no later than fifteen 15 days after the first of each such month a revised report showing the interstate and Interstate percentage of use for the past three 3 months ending the last day of December March June and September respectively for each service arranged for Interstate use Except where the Company is billing by jurisdiction according to actual measured usage the revised report will serve as the basis for the next three 3 months billing and will be effective on the bill date for that service No prorating or back billing will be done based on the report If the Customer does not supply the reports the Company will assume the percentages to be the same as those provided in the last quarterly report For those cases in which a quarterly report has never been received from the Customer the Company will assume the percentages to be the same as those provided in the order for service The percentages described in paragraphs B through D following are applied to Carrier Common Line Information Surcharge Local Switching Tandem Switched Transport and Transport Interconnection Charge TIC Separate PIUs are required for flat rated Entrance Facilities Direct Trun
83. cluding state and local governments having or claiming jurisdiction over the Company or of any department agency commission bureau corporation or other instrumentality of any one or more of these federal state or local governments or of any civil or military authority national emergencies insurrections riots wars unavailability of rights of way or materials or strikes lockout work stoppages or other labor difficulties The Company does not guarantee or make any warranty with respect to its services when used in an explosive atmosphere The Company shall be indemnified defended and held harmless by the Customer from any and all claims by any person relating to such Customer s use of services so provided D Damages Caused by Others The Company shall not be liable for interruptions delays errors or defects in transmission or for any injury whatsoever caused by the Customer the Customer s agents or Authorized Users or by facilities or equipment provided by the Customer The Company shall not be liable for any act omission or defect of an entity furnishing to the Company or to the Customer services facilities or equipment used for or with the Company s services or for the acts or omissions of common carriers or warehousemen Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C N
84. ctober 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 129 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description 7 2 1 Voice Grade Service 7 2 1 1 Basic Channel Description A voice grade channel provides voice frequency transmission capability in the nominal frequency range of 300 to 3000 Hz and may be terminated two 2 wire or four 4 wire Voice grade channels are provided between Customer designated premises between a Customer designated premises and a Company hub or hubs or between a Customer designated premises and a WATS Serving Office WSO 7 2 1 2 Optional Features and Functions A Central Office Bridging Capability 1 Voice Bridging two 2 wire and four 4 wire 2 Data Bridging two 2 wire and four 4 wire Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 130 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description contd 7 2 1 Voice Grade Service cont d 7 2 1 2 Optional Features and Functions cont d Issued October 3 2011 B Conditioning Conditioning provides more speci
85. d Access Service is provided over the DS1 facility i e voice grade special access channels are not derived The DS1 to voice grade multiplexer will convert a 1 544 Mbps channel to twenty four 24 voice grade channels Multiplexing will be provided in the offices where the capability exist 4 Direct Trunked Transport The Company provides direct trunked transport between the Customer s designated premises and the local switching equipment of the Company This transmission path is dedicated to the use of a single Customer Voice grade two 2 or four 4 wire or high capacity DS1 and DS3 facilities are available for direct trunked transport The Customer must specify the choice of facilities 1 e voice grade two or 4 four wire or high capacity DS1 or DS3 to be used in the provision of the direct trunked transport or entrance facility and whether it will overflow to tandem switched transport The minimum period for which a high capacity DS3 direct trunked transport is provided is twelve 12 months Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 91 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d 4 Direct Trunked Transport cont d Di
86. d or derived to determine the basis for computing chargeable access minutes In the event the Customer message detail is not available because the Company lost or damaged tapes or incurred recording system outages the Company will estimate the volume of lost Customer access minutes of use based on previously known values FGD access minutes or fractions thereof the exact value of the fraction being a function of the switch technology where the measurement is made are accumulated over the billing period for each end office and are then rounded up to the nearest access minute for each end office Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 120 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 7 Measuring Access Minutes cont d A Issued October 3 2011 Originating Usage For originating calls over FGD the measured minutes are the chargeable access minutes For originating calls over FGD provided with MF Signaling usage measurement begins when the originating FGD first point of switching receives the first wink supervisory signal forwarded from the Customer s point of termination For originating calls over FGD provided with Signaling System 7 SS7 Signaling when the FGD end
87. dards or when such rules and standards have adverse material affect on the business or economic feasibility of providing service as determined by the Company in its reasonable judgment without incurring any liability In addition the Company may discontinue service without incurring any liability For Nonpayment The Company by written notice to the Customer and in accordance with applicable law may discontinue service or cancel an application for service without incurring any liability when there is an unpaid balance for service that is more than thirty 30 days overdue For Lack of Use The Company by written notice to the Customer may discontinue service in the same manner as provided for nonpayment of overdue charges if after sixty 60 days the service has not been used Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 41 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 29 Refusal or Discontinuance by the Company cont d 2 9 3 For any violation of law or any of the provisions governing the furnishing if service under this Tariff The Customer shall be subject to discontinuance of service without notice for any violation of any law rule regulation or policy of any government authority having jurisdiction over service
88. de etc The applicable rates and charges will include a channel termination and channel mileage if applicable Rates and charges for optional features and functions associated with the service if any will apply for the appropriate channel type Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 152 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 10 7 11 Mixed Use Analog and Digital High Capacity Services cont d As each individual channel is activated for Switched Access Service the High Capacity Special Access Channel Termination Channel Mileage and Multiplexing rates will be reduced accordingly e g 1 24th for a DS1 service 1 672nd for a DS3 service etc Switched Access Service rates and charges will apply for each channel that is used to provide a Switched Access Service Additionally the Switched Access Service Entrance Facility Direct Trunked Transport and Multiplexing charges if applicable will be reduced by multiplying their respective rates by the ratio of derived Switched Access Service channels to the total number of voice grade channels that can be derived The Customer must place an order for each individual Switched or Special Access Service utilizing the mixed use facilities and specify the channel as
89. defend and hold harmless the Company from and against all claims actions damages liabilities costs and expenses for l death or injury of any person caused by or resulting from any loss destruction or damage to property of the Customer or any third party B death or injury of any person caused by the negligent or intentional act or omission of the Customer its employees agents representatives or invites and C any claim loss damage expense or liability for infringement of any copyright patent trade secret or any proprietary or intellectual property right of any third party arising from any act or omission by the Customer including without limitation use of the Company s services and facilities in a manner not contemplated by this Tariff or any agreement between Customer and Company Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 28 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 9 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 9 Jurisdictional Report Switched Access The Customer must indicate a Percent of Interstate Use PIU factor in a whole number i e a number 0 100 when ordering Switched Access Service A Customer provided PIU factor is required on each Access Service Request Where jurisdiction can be determined
90. e ICB 4 Wire ICB B Channel Mileage 1 Channel Mileage Facility Per Mile ICB 2 Channel Mileage Termination Per Termination ICB Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 183 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 3 Special Access Service cont d 17 3 1 Voice Grade Service cont d Monthly Rate C Optional Features and Functions 1 Voice Bridging per Port 2 Wire ICB 4 Wire ICB 2 Data Bridging per Port 2 Wire ICB 4 Wire ICB 3 Conditioning Per Termination C Type ICB 4 Improved Return Loss for Effective Two Wire or Four Wire Transmission Per Termination Two Wire ICB Four Wire ICB 5 Customer Specified Receive Level Per two wire termination ICB 6 Signaling Capability Per termination ICB 7 Selective Signaling Arrangement Per arrangement ICB 8 Loop Transfer Arrangement Per four port ICB Per five port ICB 9 Data Capability Per termination ICB 10 Surcharge for Voice Grade Equivalent ICB Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 184 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVI
91. e The term Milliwatt 102 Type Test Line denotes an arrangement in an end office which provides a 1004 Hz tone at 0 dBm0 for one 1 way transmission measurements towards the Customer s premises from the Company end office Network Control Signaling The term Network Control Signaling denotes the transmission of signals used in the telecommunications system which perform functions such as supervision control status and charge signals address signaling e g dialing calling and called number identifications rate of flow service selection error control and audible tone signals call progress signals indicating re order or busy conditions alerting coin denominations coin collect and coin return tones to control the operation of the telecommunications system Nonsynchronous Test Line The term Nonsynchronous Test Line denotes an arrangement in step by step end offices which provides operational tests which are not as complete as those provided by the synchronous test lines but can be made more rapidly North American Numbering Plan The term North American Numbering Plan denotes a three 3 digit area code Numbering Plan Area NPA and a seven 7 digit telephone number made up of a three 3 digit Central Office prefix plus a four 4 digit station number Off hook The term Off hook denotes the active condition of Switched Access or a Telephone Exchange Service line Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James
92. e These obligations are as follows 5 2 1 Network Management The Company will administer its network to insure the provision of acceptable service levels to all telecommunications users of the Company s network services Generally service levels are considered acceptable only when both end users and Customers are able to establish connections with little or no delay encountered within the Company network The Company maintains the right to apply protective controls i e those actions such as call gapping which selectively cancel the completion of traffic over any traffic carried over its network including that associated with a Customer s Switched Access Service Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 98 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 2 Undertaking of the Company cont d 5 2 1 Network Management cont d Generally such protective measures would only be taken as a result of occurrences such as failure or overload of Company or Customer facilities natural disasters mass calling or national security demands In the event that the protective controls applied by the Company result in the complete loss of service by the Customer the Customer will be granted a credit allowance for service inte
93. e Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 167 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 14 RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 168 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 15 RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 169 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 16 RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 170 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES 17 1 Blended Switched Access 17 1 1 Terminating Per Access Minute N A Originating Per Access Minute N A 17 2 Switched Access Service 17 2 1 Nonrecurring Charges A Local Transport Installation Per Entrance Facility Rate Voice Grade Two Wire 161 00 Voice Grade Four Wire 161 00 High Capacity DSI 181 00 High Capacity DS3 499 00 B Direct Trunk
94. e Company shall be commenced more than one 1 year after the service is rendered In no event shall the Company be liable for any incidental indirect special consequential exemplary or punitive damages including lost revenue or profits of any kind whatsoever regardless of the cause of forseeability thereof Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 19 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 10 Liability cont d B Act or Omissions The Company shall not be liable for any act or omission of any other carrier or Customer providing a portion of a service nor shall the Company for its own act or omission hold liable any other carrier or Customer providing a portion of a service C Circumstances Beyond the Company s Control The Company shall not be liable for any delay or failure of performance hereunder if such failure is due to any cause or causes beyond the reasonable control of the Company Such causes shall include without limitation acts of god fire flood explosion or other catastrophes vandalism cable cut storm or other similar occurrence any law order regulation direction action or request of the United States government or any other government in
95. e Customer the customer will be notified by the Company that Expedited Order Charges as set forth in Section 3 1 3 following apply Such charges will apply in addition to the Service Date Change Charge If the requested service date exceeds thirty 30 calendar days following the original service date and the Company determines that the Customer s request can be accommodated the Company will cancel the original order and apply the Cancellation Charges as set forth in Section 3 5 2 following A new Access Order with a new service date will be issued The Service Date Change Charge will not apply however the Access Order Charge will apply to the new order If the service date is changed due to a design change as set forth in paragraph B following the Service Date Change Charge will apply Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 77 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 34 Charges Associated with Access Ordering cont d 3 4 3 Access Order Change Charges cont d B Design Change The Customer may request a design change to the service ordered prior to the requested service date A design change is any change to an Access Order which requires engineering review An engineering review is a review by the Company perso
96. e calls from an end user s premises to a Customer designated premises and to terminate calls from a Customer designated premises to an end user s premises Rates and charges are set forth in Section 17 2 The application of rates for Switched Access Service is described in Section 5 4 following The Operator Transfer Service and 800 Series Data Base Access Service optional features are available with the FGD Switched Access Service 5 1 1 Description and Provision of Switched Access Service Arrangements A Description 1 FGD is provided as trunk side switching through the use of end office or access tandem switch trunk equipment The switch trunk equipment is provided with wink start pulsing signals and answer and disconnect supervisory signaling 2 FGD switching is provided with multi frequency address signaling or SS7 out of band signaling Up to twelve 12 digits of the called party number dialed by the Customer s end user using dual tone multi frequency or dial pulse address signals will be provided by company equipment to the Customer s premises where the Switched Access Service terminates Such address signals will be subject to the ordinary transmission capabilities of the switched transport provided 3 FGD service when used in the terminating direction may be used to access valid NXX codes served by the Company s switch and other Customer services by dialing appropriate codes when such services can be reached using valid
97. e following procedures 1 The toll provider obtains the billed party s written authorization to submit the primary toll provider change order and confirms The billed party s billing name and address and each telephone number to be covered by the change order The billed party s decision to change primary toll providers and The billed party s understanding of the change fee or 2 The toll provider obtains the billed party s electronic authorization to submit the change order The billed party will place a call from the telephone number s on which the toll provider designation is to be changed to a toll free telephone number that is dedicated to the toll providers verification process The verification number will connect the billed party to a voice response unit that records the originating ANI and the required information described in 1 preceding or 3 An appropriately qualified and independent third party operating in a location physically separate from the telemarketing representative obtains the billed party s oral authorization to submit the change order This authorization must confirm the order and include appropriate verification data e g the billed party s date of birth or social security number or Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 127 INT
98. e nennt entente nete 75 3 5 Minimum Periods and Cancellations eese 78 3 5 1 Minimu Periods ccc ei a e ee e nie een tere denied eee 78 3 5 2 Cancellation of an Access Order sse eene 79 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 5 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES TABLE OF CONTENTS cont d Section 4 Carrier Common Line Access Services sese 81 4 1 General DescriptiOn 2 dte ter GEI Fee o er Re E E Paste 81 4 2 Obligation of the Custombet c neecce tied ee eee aE ie ETE RE Re re RePEc bau e Sgen 82 4 2 1 Switched Access Service Requirement essere 82 4 2 2 Ni Nub 82 4 3 Determination of Usage Subject to Carrier Common Line Access Charges 82 Section 5 Switched Access Services esses eee Re enne netta EE enne terne E E trente sete nene trennt 83 5 1 General eet Srt i te EE P e HH de I E MIL ee EG 83 5 1 1 Description and Provision of Switched Access Service Arrangements 83 5 1 2 Ordering Options and Conditions eese eere enne 86 5 1 3 Rate Categorles eei tete meter nee t aeree He rt ee de edes 86 5 1 4 Special Facilities Routirnig regere Heer eere te agri 96 5 1 5
99. e ordered subsequent to the initial installation of the associated access service thereby necessitating the issuance of another service order Telecommunications Service Priority The charge does not apply to the following services since there would exist a pending service order Additional Engineering Overtime Installation Standby Additional Cooperative Acceptance Testing Tow per Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 75 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 34 Charges Associated with Access Ordering cont d 3 4 3 Access Order Change Charges Access Order changes involve service date changes and design changes The Customer may request a change of its Access Order prior to the service date The Company will make every effort to accommodate a requested change when it is able to do so with the normal work force assigned to the order and within normal business hours If the change cannot be made with the normal work force during normal business hours the Company will notify the Customer If the customer still desires the Access Order change the Company will schedule a new service date Any increase in the number of Special Access Service channels or Switched Access Service lines trunks or
100. each end office a ratio will be developed and applied against the total minutes of use and or count of queries for a given Customer as determined by the tandem or SSP These ratios will be developed by dividing the unidentified originating 800 series type minutes of use at an end office by the total unidentified originating minutes of use in all end offices subtending the tandem or SSP Shared Transport Shared transport refers to a rate application that is applicable only when the Customer orders high capacity direct trunked transport between a serving wire center and a Company hub where the Company performs multiplexing de multiplexing functions and the same Customer then orders the derived channels as direct trunked transport and tandem switched transport Except as noted above the Switched Access Service will be ordered provided and rated as direct trunked transport As each derived channel is activated for tandem switched transport the High Capacity Direct Trunked Transport and Multiplexing Charges will be reduced accordingly Tandem Switched Transport rates and charges will apply for each channel that is used to provide the tandem switched transport Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 108 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5
101. ecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 52 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d End User Common Line Charge The term End User Common Line Charge denotes the charge applicable to the end user common line Enhanced Service The term Enhanced Service as defined in Part 64 of the FCC s Rules and Regulations are services offered over common carrier transmission facilities used in Interstate communications which employ computer processing applications that act on the format content code protocol or similar aspects of the subscriber transmitted information provide the subscriber additional different or restructured information or involve subscriber interaction with stored information Entrance Facility The term Entrance Facility denotes a Switched Access Service dedicated local transport facility between the Customer s serving wire center and the Customer designated premises Entry Switch See First Point of Switching Envelope Delay Distortion The term Envelope Delay Distortion denotes a measure of the linearity of the phase versus frequency of a channel Equal Level Echo Path Loss The term Equal Level Echo Path Loss ELEPL denotes the measure of Echo Path Loss EPL at a 4 wire interface which is corrected by the difference between the send and receive Transmission Level Point TLP ELEPL EPL TLP send TLP rece
102. ection 8 following When there are high capacity facilities to a hub on order or in service for the Customer s use the Customer may request a specific channel or transmission path be used to provide the Switched or Special Access Service requested in an access order The Company will make a reasonable effort to accommodate the Customer request Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 68 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 2 Issued October 3 2011 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 By Ordering Requirements An ASR is required by the Company to provide a Customer both Switched and Special Access Service as described herein An ASR will be required for each new similar service arrangement or group of common circuits 3 2 1 Switched Access Service A When a Customer requests new or additional Switched Access Services one 1 or more access orders may be required The number of orders required is dependent on the type of services and or facilities being requested When placing an order for service the Customer shall specify whether the service is to be provided as direct trunked transport or tandem switched transport as described in Section 5 1 3 follo
103. ed October 3 2011 Terminating Usage For terminating calls over FGD the chargeable access minutes are either measured or derived For terminating calls over FGD provided with MF signaling where measurement capability exists the measurement of chargeable access minutes begins when the terminating FGD first point of switching receives answer supervision from the terminating end user s end office indicating the terminating end user has answered This measurement ends when the terminating FGD first point of switching receives disconnect supervision from either the terminating end user s end office indicating the terminating end user has disconnected or the Customer s point of termination whichever is recognized first by the first point of switching For terminating calls over FGD where measurement capability does not exist terminating FGD usage is derived from originating usage excluding usage from calls to closed end services or Directory Assistance Services For terminating calls over FGD with SS7 signaling usage measurement begins when the terminating recording switch receives answer supervision from the terminating end user The Company switch receives answer supervision and sends the indication to the Customer in the form of an answer message The measurement of terminating FGD call usage ends when the entry switch receives or sends a release message whichever occurs first Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchel
104. ed Transport Activated Per 24 Trunks Activated or Fraction thereof on 249 00 a Per Order Basis C Interim NXX Translation Per Order 81 00 D Flexible Automatic Number Identification Per End Office Per CIC N A Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 171 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 2 Local Transport Issued October 3 2011 Premium Access Entrance Facility per termination Voice Grade Two Wire Voice Grade Four Wire High Capacity DS1 High Capacity DS3 Direct Trunked Transport Direct Trunked Facility Per Mile Voice Grade High Capacity DS1 High Capacity DS3 Direct Trunked Termination Per Termination Voice Grade High Capacity DS1 High Capacity DS3 Multiplexing Per Arrangement DS3 to DS1 DS1 to Voice By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Monthly Rate B oe oe ge PRAHA PRAHA ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB ICB Effective Date October 4 2011 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 172 Cancels Original Page 172 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2
105. ede eed ees 23 2 3 Obligations of the Customer ener nennen nennen tenente ener 24 2 3 1 Payment of Charges ect ete eee ett rette EP eoe aeter ee ket 24 2 3 1 1 Late Payments nuu SIRE ERG Waar eere E 24 2 3 2 Data SOS EX 25 2 3 3 Equipment Space and Power 0 ccccccssccsssseceecceceeeessaeceeaeeceeeeecsaeeeeaaecseaeeceaeeeeaeceeaaeeeeeees 25 2 3 4 Rights Of Way iicet ter ee onn eere e reet FO Pee DES Ue Gadus Een Le e Leere ee geet eae 25 2 3 5 Availability for Installing Maintaining and Removing eene 26 2 3 6 Customer Provided Equipments snekret eaa e E a nne nnne 26 2 3 7 Coordination with Respect to Network Contingencies eee 27 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 4 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES TABLE OF CONTENTS cont d 2 3 8 Indemnification of the Company by the Customer and the End User 27 2 3 0 Jurisdictional Report Switched Access esee eren nennen 28 2 3 10 Determination of Jurisdiction of Mixed Use Special Access Service 31 2 3 11 Jurisdictional Reports Verification eoe erret ertt rtr onere erase rete gen 32 2 3 12 Payment of Service Charges Imposed by Another Entity seen 33 2 3 13 Ord
106. eptance test will include tests for loss 3 tone slope DC continuity operational signaling C notched noise C message noise when these parameters are applicable and specified in the order of service Additionally an improved loss test will be made if the Customer has ordered the Improved Loss Optional Feature Digital Service For Digital Services i e Digital Data and High Capacity acceptance tests will include tests applicable to the service as specified by the Customer in the order for service In addition to the above tests additional cooperative acceptance testing for Voice Grade Service to test other parameters is available at the Customer s request All test results will be made available to the Customer upon request Ordering Options and Conditions Special Access Service is ordered under the Access Order provisions set forth in Section 3 preceding Also included in that Section are other charges which may be associated with ordering Special Access Service e g Service Date Change Charges Cancellation Charges etc Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 141 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 71 9 Issued October 3 2011 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pen
107. equipped end office is capable of handling 800 SAC traffic on a direct trunked basis but incapable of handling 888 SAC traffic on a direct trunked basis a full credit will be provided for Tandem Switched Transport Charges associated with FGD service for 888 SAC traffic delivered at the tandem This results in all 800 series traffic being rated as direct trunked transport regardless of whether the SSP equipped end office is capable of handling 888 SAC traffic on a direct trunked basis Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 93 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d 5 Switched Transport Services cont d Tandem Switched Transport rates consist of a Tandem Switching rate a Tandem Switched Facility rate and a Tandem Switched Termination rate a The Tandem Switching rate recovers a portion of the costs of switching traffic through an access tandem The Tandem Switching rate is applied on a per access minute per tandem basis for all originating and all terminating minutes of use switched at the tandem b The Tandem Switched Facility rate recovers a portion of the costs of the transmission facilities including intermediate transm
108. er FGD switched access service trunks from the operator service location to the Customer s premises Where required by technical limitations a separate FGD trunk group will be established for Operator Transfer Service The operator service location will provide trunk answer and disconnect supervisory signaling to the Customer The Company will provide Operator Transfer Service for calls originating from telephone numbers associated with exchange service lines in end offices subtending the Operator Service location B Manner of Provision Switched Access Service is provided by the Company as trunk side switched access with equal access capabilities compatible with industry standards for Feature Group D Service Trunks used for Switched Access Service maybe configured for one 1 way either originating only or terminating only or for two 2 way directionality Originating calling permits the delivery of calls from the Telephone Exchange Service locations to the Customer designated premises Terminating calling permits the delivery of calls from the Customer designated premises to Telephone Exchange Service locations Two 2 way calling permits the delivery of calls in both directions but not simultaneously Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 86 INTERSTATE DOME
109. er the same or a different Customer designated premises A key activated or dial up control service is required to operate the transfer arrangement A spare channel if required is not included as part of the option Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 137 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description cont d 7 2 3 High Capacity Service cont d 7 2 3 2 Optional Features and Functions cont d B Central Office Multiplexing 1 DS3 to DSI An arrangement that converts a 44 736 Mbps channel to twenty eight 28 DS1 channels using digital time division multiplexing 2 DSI to Voice An arrangement that converts a 1 544 Mbps channel to twenty four 24 channels for use with Voice Grade Services A channel s of this DS1 to the hub can also be used for a Digital Data Service 3 DSI to DSO An arrangement that converts a 1 544 Mbps channel to 56 64 Kbps channel for use with Digital Data Service Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 138 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE contd
110. ering Where More than One Company is Involved esee 33 2 3 14 Rating and Billing of Access Services Where More than One Company 18 Involved 2 2 e edet dente ete Mee ge e m ee ee Era get dee 33 2 4 Prohibited Uc ELEM 34 2 5 Interconnection sis cete re eterne p oer pe e colette eese Re depo loses at SEE pe deese edlen 35 2 6 Inspection Testing and Adjustment sese nennen 35 2 7 Payment Arrangements and Credit Allowances eese 36 2 7 1 Payment of Rates Charges and Deposits eese 36 251 2 Credit Allowance for Service Interruptions eeeeeseeseeeeeeeeeeeeen nennen 38 2 8 Cancellation of Service or Application for Service ssseeeeee 39 2 9 Refusal or Discontinuance by the Company esee 40 2 10 Restoration of Service dee ene eto pesdex dee erede ne eee aee e eet e eee ea ge ates 42 2 11 Changes in Equipment and Services sseeeseeeeeeeeeeeen nennen nennen 42 2 12 Use f Recording Devices 1 oe eere ueteri e suede erede tte De e eta ter coco ee eta emu oput 42 2 13 ASSITMENT e EE tee oE 43 2 14 License Agency or Partnerships eoe tite dier epi tette ee eine ee IEEE ECP E pe Ce ple eek eren 43 2 15 Proptietary Information 1e ie ertet eere ete trece ee re ee EP gente n 43 2 16 Company s Right to Assign Designate or Change Telephone Number 43 2 17 IDebiDItlO
111. ervice and an installation of a new service In the event the change in ownership or transfer of responsibility is as set forth in Section 2 1 9 preceding where there is no change in facilities or arrangements the change will be treated as an administrative change Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 147 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 2 Types of Rates and Charges cont d B Non recurring Charges cont d 4 7 9 3 Moves Administrative Changes Administrative changes will be made without charge s to the Customer Administrative changes are as follows Change of Customer name Change of Customer or Customer s end user premises address when the change of address is not a result of physical relocation of equipment Change in billing data name address or contact name or telephone number Change of agency authorization Change of Customer circuit identification Change of billing account number Change of Customer test line number Change of Customer or Customer s end user contact name or telephone number and Change of jurisdiction All other service rearrangements will be charged as follows If the change involves the addition of other Customer designated premise
112. es The Company intends to work cooperatively with the Customer to develop network contingency plans in order to maintain maximum network capability following natural or man made disasters which affect telecommunications services Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 17 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 9 Limitations A Assignment or Transfer of Services All services provided under this Tariff are directly or indirectly controlled by the Company and neither the Customer nor its Authorized Users may transfer or assign the use of service without the express prior written consent of the Company Such transfer or assignment shall only apply where there is no interruption of use or relocation of the service All terms and conditions contained in this Tariff shall apply to all such permitted transferees or assignees as well as conditions of service The assignment or transfer of services does not relieve or discharge the assignor or transferor from remaining jointly or severally liable with the assignee or transferee for any obligations existing at the time of the assignment or transfer B Use and Restoration of Service The use and restoration of servi
113. es that are available in lieu of or in addition to the standard features 5 4 4 1 Common Switching Options A Automatic Number Identification ANI This option provides the automatic transmission of a seven 7 digit or ten 10 digit number and information digits to the Customer designated premises for calls originating in the LATA to identify the calling station B Service Class Routing This option provides the capability to direct originating traffic from an end office to a trunk group or a Customer designated premises based on the line class of service e g coin multiparty or hotel motel service prefix indicator e g 0 0 01 or 011 or Service Access Code e g 800 888 or 900 It is provided in suitably equipped end office or access tandem switches Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 110 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features cont d 5 4 4 1 Common Switching Options cont d C Issued October 3 2011 Alternate Traffic Routing When the Customer orders both direct trunked transport and tandem switched transport at the same end office this option provides the capability of directing originating tra
114. es to the conversation prior to or at the beginning of the conversation B A distinctive recorder tone must be repeated at intervals of approximately fifteen 15 seconds to alert all parties to the conversation that a recording device is being used C The requirements of paragraphs A and B are waived for Broadcast licensees who use a recording device to record a conversation for broadcast if all parties to the conversation are aware that the conversation will be broadcast Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 43 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 13 2 14 2 15 2 16 Assignment A Company may without obtaining any further consent from Customer assign any of its rights privileges or obligations under this Tariff to any subsidiary parent company or affiliate of Company pursuant to any sale or transfer of substantially all the business of Company or pursuant to any financing merger merger or reorganization of Company B Customer may upon prior written consent of Company which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld assign its rights privileges or obligations under this Tariff to any subsidiary parent Company or affiliate of Customer pursuant to any sale or transfer of substantially al
115. ether it will overflow to tandem switched transport when service is directly routed to an end office 3 the type of entrance facility 4 the directionality of the service and 5 when multiplexing is required the hub s at which the multiplexing will be provided Additionally when service is to be routed through an access tandem switch the Customer must specify whether the facility between the serving wire center and the tandem is to be provided as direct trunked transport or tandem switched transport When the Customer has both tandem switched transport and direct trunked transport at the same end office the Customer will be provided Alternate Traffic Routing Direct trunked transport is available at all tandems and at the end offices with the capability of providing the service Direct trunked transport is not available from end offices that lack recording or measurement capability Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 88 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d Normally direct trunked transport of originating 800 series type calls from an end office is available only from Service Switching Point SSP equipped end
116. f F C C No 1 Original Page 7 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES TABLE OF CONTENTS cont d Section 11 Reserved for Future Use eese nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn n n n n a pan n n nan a n napa pau 164 Section 12 Reserved for Future U Sener e e nnn nnn nnne nnn nnn nnn n n n n n n a ana nas pna paa nua 165 Section 13 Reserved for Future Use eeeeseseseseseseeeeeeeen nennen aa n nnn n n n n n s nn nna pap p eaa a anu 166 Section 14 Reserved for Future Use eeeeeeseeeseeeeeeeeeeeen nnn nn nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn n n a n a n n p n ean papa anu 167 Section 15 Reserved for Future Usero irene noe n e nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn n n nnn s e a e n nan n n papae aua 168 Section 16 Reserved for Future Use eeeeeseseseeeseeeeeeeeeen nennen nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn n n n p p nn nn n p eaa n anu 169 Section 173Rates and Charges pet te rhe de e eese adh ee eee Dette 170 17 1 Blended Switched Access 4 rrt epe rc tr rere nan RED hana FUEE EE DRIN ER eae 170 17 2 Switched ACCESS SEL VICE oett ise osse e i eeeo ee Pete Eare a a pecore ets 170 17 2 1 Nonrecurring Charges nesnesi Hee eet eoe ere d aea deeded a seal 170 17 2 2 Local LratSpOtt ote ferte tenete eter tt ole ete ede ata ates cae 171 17 2 3 Sod oce onmitereteioitgeecec niteretur netesetsertca t grecs niveo gerere 178 17 2 4 End Offlicezisse eese tette ese rt eer DE RSS 180 17 2 5 Operator Lranstet Service s eodein een e Pret E iE eE ERT EEEE ete eiT 182 17 3 Special ACGeSS SeEVI
117. f F C C No 1 Original Page 119 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 6 Design and Traffic Routing The Company shall design and determine the routing of Tandem Switched Access Service including the selection of the first point of switching and the selection of facilities from the interface to any switching The Company shall also decide if capacity is to be provided by originating only terminating only or two 2 way trunk groups Finally the Company will decide whether trunk side access will be provided through the use of two 2 wire or four 4 wire trunk terminating equipment For Direct Trunked Transport Service the Company will determine the routing of the service from the point of interface to the first point of switching If the Customer specifies one 1 or more hub locations for multiplexing the routing will be determined from the point of interface to the hub location from one hub location to another hub location and or from a hub location to the first point of switching Selection of facilities and equipment and traffic routing of the service are based on standard engineering methods available facilities and equipment and actual traffic patterns 5 4 7 Measuring Access Minutes Customer traffic to end offices will be recorded at end office switches or access tandem switches Originating and terminating calls will be measure
118. f any form or configuration of plant typically used in the telecommunications industry Trunk The term Trunk denotes a communications path connecting two 2 switching systems in a network used in the establishment of an end to end connection Trunk Group The term Trunk Group denotes a set of trunks which are traffic engineered as a unit for the establishment of connections between switching systems in which all of the communications paths are interchangeable Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 64 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Trunk Side Connection The term Trunk Side Connection denotes the connection of a transmission path to the trunk side of a local exchange switching system Two 2 Wire to Four 4 Wire Conversion The term Two 2 Wire to Four 4 Wire Conversion denotes an arrangement which converts a four 4 wire transmission path to a two 2 wire transmission path to allow a four 4 wire facility to terminate in a two 2 wire entity e g a central office switch V and H Coordinates Method The term V and H Coordinates Method denotes a method of computing airline miles between two 2 points by utilizing an established formula which is based
119. ff F C C No 1 Original Page 92 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d 4 Direct Trunked Transport cont d The Direct Trunked Transport rate elements recover a portion of the cost associated with the communications path between a serving wire center and an end office or serving wire center and a tandem on circuits dedicated to the use of a single Customer The Direct Trunked Facility rate recovers a portion of the costs of transmission facilities including intermediate transmission circuit equipment between the end points of the interoffice circuits The Direct Trunked Termination rate recovers a portion of the costs of the circuit equipment that is necessary for the termination of each end of the direct trunked facility 5 Switched Transport Services Switched transport is provided from the serving wire center at which the service becomes common transport to either of the following at the discretion of the Customer The last serving wire center of the common transport b The serving wire center of the end user The Tandem Switched Transport rate elements recover a portion of the costs associated with the communications path between the serving wire center and an end office or between a tandem and an end office on circuits that are switched at a tandem switch In those instances where an SSP
120. ffic from an end office or appropriately equipped access tandem to a trunk group the high usage group or to a Customer designated premises until that group is fully loaded and then delivering additional originating traffic the overflowing traffic from the same end office or access tandem to a different trunk group the final group or to a second Customer designated premises The Customer shall specify the last trunk CCS desired for the high usage group It is provided in suitably equipped end office or access tandem switches Trunk Access Limitation This option provides for the routing of originating 900 service calls to a specified number of transmission paths in a trunk group in order to limit choke the completion of such traffic to the Customer Calls to the designated service which could not be completed over the subset of transmission paths in the trunk group i e the choked calls would be routed to reorder tone It is provided in all Company electronic end offices Call Gapping Arrangement This option provided in suitably equipped end office switches provides for the routing of originating calls to 900 Service to be switched in the end office to all transmission paths in a trunk group at a prescribed rate of flow e g one call every five 5 seconds in order to limit choke the completion of such traffic to the Customer Calls to the designated service which are denied access by this feature would be ro
121. fic transmission characteristics for Voice Grade Services l C Type Conditioning C Type conditioning is provided for the additional control of attenuation distortion and envelope delay distortion on data services The attenuation distortion and envelope delay distortion specifications for C Type Conditioning are delineated in Technical Reference TR TS Y 000335 D Type Conditioning Digital Capability D Type conditioning provides transmission characteristics suitable for data communications Specifically D Type conditioning provides for the control of the signal to C notched noise ratio and intermodulation distortion It is available for two 2 point services or multipoint services Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 131 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description cont d 7 2 1 Voice Grade Service cont d 7 2 1 2 Optional Features and Functions cont d The Signal to C Notched Noise Ratio and Intermodulation Distortion Parameter for data capability are delineated in Technical Reference TR TSY 000335 When a service equipped with data capability is used for voice communications the quality of the voice transmission may not be satisfactory C Customer Specified Premises Receive Level This option al
122. for this work activity Moves that change the physical location of the point of termination are described and charged for as set forth in Section 5 4 3 following Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 103 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 1 Descriptions and Application of Rate cont d B Non recurring Charges cont d 3 Administrative changes will be made without charge to the Customer Administrative changes are as follows Change of Customer name Change of Customer or Customer s end user premises address when the change of address is not a result of a physical relocation of equipment Change in billing data name address or contact name or telephone number Change of agency authorization Change of Customer circuit identification Change of billing account number Change of Customer test line number Change of Customer or Customer s end user contact name or telephone number and Change of jurisdiction Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 104 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS
123. from the call detail the Company will develop a projected PIU factor from the call detail which will be used to bill the Customer Where call detail is insufficient to determine the jurisdiction the Customer will provide a Jurisdictional Report indicating the projected PIU factor in whole number The Company will use the Jurisdictional Report to bill all Interstate usage and Interstate rates and or nonrecurring charges until the Company receives a revised report from the Customer The following regulations govern such estimates their reporting by the Customer and cases where the Company will develop jurisdictional percentages A General Except where Company measured access is used as set forth following the Customer shall update its PIU as set forth in paragraphs B or C following and such report will be used for billing purposes until the Customer reports a different projected Interstate percentage The revised report will serve as the basis for future billing and will be effective on the next bill date No prorating or back billing will be done based on the report Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 29 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 3 Obligations of the Customer cont d 1 Jurisdictional Report Swit
124. g services 3 1 1 3 1 2 Ordering Conditions All services offered under this Tariff may be ordered using an ASR or through a Constructive Order as defined herein The format and terms of the ASR will be as specified in the Industry Access Service Order Guidelines unless otherwise specified herein A Customer may order any number of services of the same type and between the same premises on a single access order All details for services for a particular order must be identical The Customer shall provide all information necessary for the Company to provide and bill for the requested service When placing an order for Access Service the Customer shall provide the following minimum information A Customer name and premises address es B Billing name and address when different from Customer name and address C Customer contact name s and telephone number s for the following provisioning activities order negotiation order confirmation interactive design installation and billing The order date is the date on which the Company receives a firm commitment and sufficient information from the Customer to allow processing of the ASR Service Installation The Company will provide the Access Service in accordance with the Customer s requested service date subject to the constraints established by the Company schedule of applicable service dates Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D M
125. ge Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 156 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS 10 2 SERVICES cont d Additional Labor Additional labor is that labor requested by the Customer on a given service and agreed to by the Company as set forth in Sections 10 2 1 through 10 2 5 following The Company will notify the customer that Additional Labor Charges will apply before any additional labor is undertaken Should a Company employee be called out at a time not consecutive with the employee s scheduled work period the Customer will be subject to a minimum charge of four 4 hours When provisioning or restoring Telecommunications Service Priority Services the Company will when possible notify the Customer of the applicability of these Additional Labor Charges 10 2 1 Overtime Installation Overtime installation is that Company installation effort outside of normally scheduled working hours 10 2 2 Overtime Repair Overtime repair is that Company effort performed outside of normally scheduled working hours 10 2 3 Stand by Stand by includes all time in excess of one half 1 2 hour during which Company personnel stand by to make installation acceptance tests or cooperative
126. hange from two 2 point to multipoint Special Access Service D All applicable non recurring charges for the service will be billed in addition to the Minimum Period Charge 3 5 2 Cancellation of an Access Order A A Customer may cancel an Access Order for the installation of service on any date prior to the service date The cancellation date is the date the Company receives written or verbal notice from the Customer that the order is to be canceled The verbal notice must be followed by written confirmation within ten 10 days If a Customer or a Customer s end user is unable to accept Access Service within thirty 30 calendar days after the original service date the Customer has the choice of the following options 1 The Access Order shall be canceled and charges set forth in paragraph B following will apply or 2 Billing for the service will commence In such instances the cancellation date or the billing date depending on which option is selected by the Customer shall be the thirty first 31 day beyond the original service date of the Access Order Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 80 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 5 Charges Associated with Access Ordering cont d 3 5 2 Cancellatio
127. hannel Mileage Termination rate for each termination where calculations result in a fraction of a mile always round up to the next whole mile before determining the mileage and applying the rates When hubs are involved mileage is computed and rates applied separately for each section i e Customer designated premises serving wire center to hub hub to hub and or hub to Customer designated premises serving wire center However when any service is routed through a hub for purposes other than Customer specified bridging or multiplexing e g the Company chooses to so route for test access purposes rates will be applied only to the distance calculated between the serving wire centers associated with the Customer designated premises Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 151 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 10 Mixed Use Analog and Digital High Capacity Services Mixed use refers to a rate application applicable only when the Customer orders high capacity special access facilities between a Customer designated premises and a Company hub where the Company performs multiplexing de multiplexing functions and the same Customer then orders the derived channels as Special and Switched Access Services If the
128. harges apply i e additional cooperative acceptance tests and in service tests Routine tests are those tests performed by the Company on a regular basis as set forth in Section 5 2 2 preceding which are required to maintain Switched Access Service Additional in service tests may be done on an automatic basis no Company or Customer technicians involved on a manual basis Company technician s involved at Company office s and Company or Customer technician s involved at the Customer designated premises Testing Services are ordered to the end office for FGD Testing Services for Directory Assistance Service not routed through an access tandem is ordered to a Directory Assistance Location for each NPA A Additional Cooperative Acceptance Testing Additional cooperative acceptance testing of Switched Access Service involves the Company provision of a technician at its office s and the Customer provision of a technician at its premises with suitable test equipment to perform the required tests Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 159 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES cont d 10 3 Miscellaneous Services cont d 10 3 1 Issued October 3 2011 Testi
129. has answered or disconnected Attenuation Distortion The term Attenuation Distortion denotes the difference in loss at specified frequencies relative to the loss at 1004 Hz unless otherwise specified Balance 100 Type Test Line The term Balance 100 Type Test Line denotes an arrangement in an end office which provides for balance and noise testing Bit The term Bit denotes the smallest unit of information in the binary system of notation Business Day The term Business Day denotes the times of day that a company is open for business Generally in the business community these are 8 00 or 9 00 a m to 5 00 or 6 00 p m respectively with an hour for lunch Monday through Friday resulting in a standard forty 40 hour work week However Business Day hours for the Company may vary based on company policy union contract and location To determine such hours for an individual company or company location that company should be contacted at the address shown under the Issuing Carrier s name listed on the Title Pages of this Tariff Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 46 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Busy Hour Minutes of Capacity BHMC The term Busy H
130. he end user location provider or agent may have with one 1 or more toll providers Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 125 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 6 PRESUBSCRIPTION SERVICE cont d 6 1 Presubscription cont d B Provisions cont d 2 Dispute Application for Presubscription cont d If there is a conflict between an end user and or location provider on one hand and their agent on the other hand over designation of the primary toll provider the Company will honor the designation selected by the end user and or location provider regardless of any contractual obligations the end user and or location provider may have with one 1 or more toll providers or agents The non recurring charge for an unauthorized toll provider change is set forth in Section 17 3 Cancellation of Toll Provider Participation for Presubscription If a toll provider elects to discontinue all of its FGD service in the end office the toll provider is obligated to do the following Notify the Company of the cancellation of their FGD service and Contact all end users or location providers that are presubscribed to the canceling toll provider as their primary toll provider Inform these end users or location providers of cancellation and reques
131. he facilities to be tested available to the Company at times mutually agreed upon E Special Access Service The Company will provide assistance in performing specific tests requested by the Customer Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 161 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES cont d 10 3 Miscellaneous Services cont d 10 3 2 Maintenance of Service Should a Customer report trouble to the Company for clearance and no trouble is found in the Company s facilities the Customer shall be responsible for payment of the Maintenance of Service Charge for the period of time from when Company personnel are dispatched at the request of the Customer to the Customer designated premises to when the work is completed Failure of Company personnel to find trouble in Company facilities will result in no charge if the trouble is actually in those facilities but not discovered at the time Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 162 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING
132. ies Transport Transport Transport TARIFF F C C NO Facility Ohio Termination Ohio Tandem Switching 5 Rate Ohio Ohio Nova 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local 17 2 2 Local Telephone Company Transport Transport Transport NATIONAL Premium Access Premium Access Premium Access EXCHANGE Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched CARRIER Transport Rate Transport Rate Transport Rate ASSOCIATION Band 1 Band 1 Band 1 INC F C C NO 5 Pennsylvania 6 8 2 C 1 6 8 2 C 1 6 8 2 C 2 CENTURYLINK Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched OPERATING Transmission Transmission Transmission COMPANIES Facility Zone 1 Termination Zone Tandem TARIFF F C C NO Pennsylvania 1 Pennsylvania Switching Zone 1 Pennsylvania M Material previously appearing on this page now appears on Page 172 Issued May 11 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Effective Date May 12 2012 M M N N Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 174 Cancels Original Page 174 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 2 Local Transport cont d Premium Access cont d By Tandem Tandem Switched Mesi Switched State ILEC Tariff Transport Transport
133. ilities eite tee ote ette eae trees A EEEE reda 122 5 4 9 Special Construction Rate Determination eese eren nee 122 Section 6 Pr subscriptiOn SetVICe zoe etn teer ne Pee tbe oa cus eie ee e ea eee ge etae dee te eie o ede p ee Pepe 123 6 1 Presu bseription s E teks cashes ts T ees ahh resis E E SE cade E e teed 123 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 6 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES TABLE OF CONTENTS cont d section 7 Special Access ServiCe ee nde etre ete ee rete onec tete e Eoo ec eee eee dee eroe a a 128 7 1 General eene ERR netta hana geret ee aa 128 7 2 DescriptoNS nr T CS 129 7 2 1 Voice Grade Service jerien eins ree oeste ER pe Lesbo tele tbe tedden ceto 129 7 2 1 1 Basic Channel Descriptio usses cessive teer tte et a ae etre ade ront eden ierunt ed 129 7 2 1 2 Optional Features and Functions 0 ccc ceecescceseeeeceeeeeeseeeseeeseecsaecaecsaeceseceseeseeeeseeeseeeees 129 T22 Digital Data Service s lt 25 mU rente on ei ees os bs i E HE ER EE i Ea 133 7 2 2 1 Basic Channel Description ereit peperere edere eg etes eta esee oe Pere e aa io daze 133 E222 Optional Features and Functions esee ener 134 7 2 3 High Capacity Service ie ete ep reete eR EM E Unete ri eee Lo eee o Eid etg 135 7
134. in Technical Reference PUB62310 Optional Features and Functions The Optional Features and Functions described in paragraphs A and B following are only available where Digital Data Service is provided via a hub A Central Office Bridging Capability Bridging is not available on a 64 0 Kbps channel Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 135 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description cont d 7 2 2 Digital Data Service cont d 7 2 2 2 Optional Features and Functions cont d B Transfer Arrangement A transfer arrangement affords the Customer an additional measure of protection and or flexibility in the use of their access channel s on a IxN basis The arrangement can be utilized to transfer a leg of a Special Access Service to either a spare or working channel that terminates in either the same or a different Customer designated premises This arrangement is only available at a Company designated hub A key activated or dial up control service is required to operate the transfer arrangement A spare channel if required is not included as a part of the option 7 2 3 High Capacity Service 7 2 3 1 Basic Channel Description A high capacity channel is for the transmission of 1 544 or 44 736 Mbps isochronous se
135. in association with Access Services and are furnished at no additional charge Testing Services are normally provided by Company personnel at Company locations However provisions are made in paragraph B 2 following for a Customer to request Company personnel to perform Testing Services at the Customer designated premises The offering of Testing Services under this Section of the Tariff is made subject to the availability of the necessary qualified personnel and test equipment at the various test locations mentioned in paragraphs A and B following Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 158 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES cont d 10 3 Miscellaneous Services cont d 10 3 1 Testing Services cont d 10 3 1 1 Switched Access Service Testing Services for Switched Access Service are comprised of a tests which are performed during the installation of Switched Access Service i e acceptance tests b tests which are performed after Customer acceptance of such access services and which are without charge i e routine testing and c additional tests which are performed during or after Customer acceptance of such Switched Access Services and for which additional c
136. ing Service Maintenance of Service Telecommunications Service Priority and Additional Labor shall be ordered with an Access Order or may subsequently be added to a pending order at any time up to and including the service date for the Access Service with the agreement of the Company Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 71 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 32 Ordering Requirements cont d 3 2 6 Miscellaneous Services cont d When added subsequently a service date change maybe required When a service date change is required the Service Date Change Charge as set forth in Section 17 following will apply When miscellaneous services are added to a pending order a Design Change Charge as set forth in Section 17 will apply if an engineering review is required Additional engineering is not an ordering option but will be applied to an ASR when the Company determines that additional engineering is necessary to accommodate a customer request Additional engineering will be provided by the Company at the request of the Customer only when a Customer requests technical information included on the Design Layout Report The Customer will be notified when additional engineering is required and will be furnished with a written
137. ing hours per technician ICB Overtime outside of normally scheduled working hours on a scheduled work day per technician ICB Premium Time outside of scheduled work day per technician ICB First Half Hour or Additional Labor Periods Fraction Thereof C Testing and Maintenance with other Telephone Companies or Other Labor I R Technician CO Technician Basic Time per technician normally scheduled working hours ICB ICB Overtime per technician outside of normally scheduled working hours on a scheduled work day ICB ICB Premium Time per technician outside of scheduled work day ICB ICB Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 191 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 4 Other Services cont d 17 4 4 Miscellaneous Services A Additional Automatic Testing Switched Access To First Point of Switching Rate Gain Slope Test ICB C Notched Noise Test ICB 1004 Hz Loss ICB C Message Noise ICB Balance Return Loss ICB B Telecommunications Service Priority TSP Monthly Charge Non recurring Charge Per Service Arranged 54 63 C Presubscription End User Toll Provider Change Charge 5 00 D Controller Arrangement ICB E Unauthorized PIC Change Residen
138. ing service in accordance with the terms of this Tariff B The Company reserves the right to limit or to allocate the use of its facilities when necessary because of lack of facilities or due to some other cause beyond the Company s control The Company may obtain facilities from other carriers to furnish service as required at the sole discretion of the Company Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 16 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company Cont d 2 1 7 Notification of Service Affecting Activities The Company will provide the Customer reasonable notification of service affecting activities that may occur in normal operation of its business Such activities may include but are not limited to equipment or facilities additions removals or rearrangements and routine preventive maintenance No specific advance notification period is applicable to all service activities The Company will work cooperatively with the Customer to determine the reasonable notification requirements Some emergency or unplanned service affecting conditions such as an outage resulting from cable damage may not allow for notification to the Customer 2 1 8 Coordination with Respect to Network Contingenci
139. ion between the end office switch and the Customer s premises in either direction Multi frequency signaling arrangements make use of pairs of frequencies out of a group of six 6 frequencies Specific information transmitted is dependent upon call type i e POTS coin or operator This feature is not available in combination with SS7 signaling Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 114 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features cont d 5 4 4 3 Local Transport Options cont d C Issued October 3 2011 Signaling System 7 SS7 Signaling S57 is provided in both the originating and terminating direction on FGD and each signaling connection is provisioned for two 2 way SS7 signaling information This feature provides common channel out of band transmission of address and supervisory SS7 protocol signaling information between the end office switch or the tandem office switching system and the Customer s designated premises This option requires the establishment of a signaling connection between the Customer s designated premises Signaling Point of Interface and a Company s Signaling Transfer Point STP The signaling information is transmitted
140. is Tariff may be used by the Customer for any lawful telecommunications purpose for which the service is technically suited Company services may be connected to the services or facilities of other communications carriers only when authorized by in accordance with the terms and conditions of any Tariffs of such other communications carriers Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 14 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 2 Provision of Services The Company will provide to the Customer upon reasonable notice services offered in other applicable sections of this Tariff at rates and charges specified therein The provision of the Company s services is subject to and contingent upon the Company obtaining and retaining all governmental authorizations that may be required or be deemed necessary by the Company The Company shall use reasonable efforts to obtain and keep in effect all such governmental authorizations The Company shall be entitled to take and shall have no liability for any action necessary to bring its facilities and or services into conformance with any requirement or request of the Federal Communications Commission or other governing entity or agency 2 1 3 Ownership of Facilitie
141. is applicable Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 74 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 34 Charges Associated with Access Ordering cont d Access Order Charge cont d B The Access Order Charge will be applied on a per order basis to each order received by the Company or copy of an order received by the Company pursuant to Section 3 3 preceding as set forth in this and other sections of this Tariff 3 4 2 Miscellaneous Service Order Charge A Miscellaneous Service Order Charge applies to any service or combination of services ordered simultaneously from Section 10 of this Tariff for which a service order is not already pending with the exception of Presubscription Section 6 which does not have the charge applied The Miscellaneous Service Order Charge is an administrative charge designed to compensate for the expenses associated with service order issuance The charge applies to the following services described in Section 10 1 Overtime Repair 2 Testing and Maintenance with Other Companies other than when in conjunction with Acceptance Testing 3 Other Labor and 4 Maintenance of Service The Miscellaneous Service Order Charge will also apply to the following services if they ar
142. ission circuit equipment between the end points of the interoffice circuits The Tandem Switched Facility rate is applied on a per access minute per mile basis for all originating and terminating minutes of use routed over the facility c The Tandem Switched Termination rate recovers a portion of the costs of the circuit equipment that is necessary for the termination of each end of the tandem switched facility The Tandem Switched Termination rate is applied on a per access minute basis for all originating and terminating minutes of use routed over the facility at each end of each measured segment of tandem switched facility e g at the end office host office tandem and serving wire center When the tandem switched facility mileage is zero 0 neither the Tandem Switched Facility rate nor the Tandem Switched Termination rate will apply Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 94 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d 6 Interface Groups The Company will provide interface groups for terminating the entrance facility at the Customer s designated premises The Company will attempt to meet any standard interface group pr
143. it otherwise would not have incurred a charge equal to the costs the Company incurred less net salvage shall apply but in no case shall this charge exceed the sum of the charge for the minimum period of services ordered including installation charges and all charges others levy against the Company that would have been chargeable to the Customer had service begun These charges will be calculated and applied on a case by case basis Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 40 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 29 Refusal or Discontinuance by the Company Service continues to be provided until canceled by the Customer in writing or until discontinued by the Company as set forth below The Company reserves the right to discontinue service when necessitated by conditions beyond its control or when the Customer is using the service in violation of the provisions of this Tariff or in violation of the law without incurring any liability The Company may render bills subsequent to the termination of service for charges incurred before termination The Company reserves the right to discontinue service limit service or to impose requirements on Customers as required to meet changing regulatory or statutory rules and stan
144. itchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 66 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 1 General cont d sd Service Installation Cont d The Company shall make available to all Customers upon request a schedule of applicable service intervals for Switched and Special Access Services The schedule shall specify the applicable service intervals for services and the quantities of services that can be provided by a requested service date Any associated material will be provided upon request and within a reasonable period of time The Company at its option may not accept orders for service dates which exceed the applicable service date by more than six 6 months Access Services will be installed during Company business days If a Customer requests that installation be done outside of scheduled work hours and the Company agrees to this request the Customer will be subject to applicable Additional Labor Charges as set forth in Section 10 following This also applies to non routine installation and special construction as set forth in Section 2 Expedited Orders When placing an access order a Customer may request a service date that is prior to the assigned service date A Customer may also request an earlier service date on a pending or negotiated access order If the Company agrees to
145. itchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 ICL kbps kHz LATA ma Mbps mcs MHz MRC MT MTS MTSO NPA NRC NXX PBX PIC POT SAC SRL SWC TG TLP TV VG V amp H WATS WSO Inserted Connection Loss Kilobits per second Kilohertz Local Access and Transport Area Milliamperes Megabits per second Microsecond Megahertz Monthly Recurring Charge Metallic Message Telecommunications Services Mobile Telephone Switching Office Numbering Plan Area Nonrecurring Charge Three Digit Central Office Prefix Private Branch Exchange Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Point of Termination Service Access Code Singing Return Loss Serving Wire Center Telegraph Grade Transmission Level Point Television Voice Grade Vertical amp Horizontal Wide Area Telecommunications Service s WATS Serving Office Effective Date October 4 2011 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 10 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES REFERENCE TO TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS The following technical publications are referenced in this Tariff and may be obtained from Bell Communications Research Inc Customer Services 60 New England Ave Piscataway NJ 08854 4196 Technical Reference Multiple Exchange Carrier Access Billing MECAB Guidelines Issued December 1990 Multiple Exchange Carrier Ordering and Design MECOD Guidelines Issued September 10 1990
146. ities The magnitude and character of the voltages and currents impressed on Company equipment facilities and wiring by such CPE shall be such as not to cause damage to Company s equipment facilities and wiring or injury to Company s employees or to other persons Upon Company request Customer will submit to Company a complete manufacturer s specification sheet for each item of CPE that is or is proposed to be attached to Company s facilities Company may provide at the Customer s expense any additional protective equipment required in the sole opinion of the Company to prevent damage or injury resulting from the connection of any CPE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 27 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 3 Obligations of the Company cont d 2 3 7 Coordination with Respect to Network Contingencies The Customer shall cooperate with the Company to plan coordinate and undertake any actions required to maintain maximum network capability following natural or manmade disasters which affect telecommunications services 2 3 8 Indemnification of the Company by the Customer and the End User With respect to any service or facility provided by the Company the Customer and the End User shall indemnify
147. ive Exchange The term Exchange denotes a unit generally smaller than a Local Access and Transport Area established by the Company for the administration of communications service in a specified area which usually embraces a city town or village and its environs It consists of one 1 or more central offices together with the associated facilities used in furnishing communications service within that area The exchange includes any Extended Area Service area that is an enlargement of a Telephone Company s exchange area to include nearby exchanges Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 53 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Exit Message The term Exit Message denotes an SS7 message sent to an end office by a Telephone Company s tandem switch to mark the Carrier Connect Time when a Telephone Company s tandem switch sends an Initial Address Message to an interexchange customer Expected Measured Loss The term Expected Measured Loss denotes a calculated loss which specifies the end to end 1004 Hz loss on a terminated test connection between two 2 readily accessible manual or remote test points It is the sum of the inserted connection loss and test access loss including any test pad
148. ked Transport and Multiplexers charges Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 30 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 3 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 9 Jurisdictional Report Switched Access cont d B Issued October 3 2011 Feature Group D When a Customer orders Feature Group D Switched Access Service s the Customer may provide the projected Percent Interstate Usage PIU for each end office in its order The Company where the jurisdiction can not be determined from the call detail will determine the projected PIU as follows 1 3 For originating access minutes the projected Interstate percentages will be developed on a monthly basis by end office where the feature Group D Switched Access Service access minutes are measured by dividing the measured Interstate originating access minutes respectively by the total originating access minutes when the call detail is adequate to determine the appropriate jurisdiction For terminating access minutes the data used by the Company to develop the projected Interstate percentages for originating access minutes will be used to develop the projected usage percentages for such terminating access minutes When the Customer has both Interstate and Intrastate Oper
149. l Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 122 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 8 5 4 9 Testing Capabilities FGD is provided in the terminating direction where equipment is available with seven 7 digit access to balance 100 type test line milliwatt 102 type test line non synchronous or synchronous test line automatic transmission measuring 105 type test line data transmission 107 type test line loop around test line short circuit test line and open circuit test line In addition to the tests described in Section 5 2 2 preceding which are included with the installation of service acceptance testing and as ongoing routine testing additional cooperative acceptance testing additional automatic testing and additional manual testing are available as set forth in Section 10 following When SS7 Signaling is ordered network compatibility and other testing will be performed cooperatively by the Company and the Customer as specified in Technical References TR TSV 000905 Special Construction Rate Determination Rates and charges for special construction will be determined by the Company on an Individual Case Basis and based in part on the costs incurred by the Company and may include 1 non recurring type charges 2 recurri
150. l usage is measured from the time the call is received by the end user in the terminating exchange Timing of usage at both originating and terminating ends of an Interstate or foreign call shall terminate when the calling or called party disconnects whichever event is recognized first in the originating and terminating exchanges as applicable Access Tandem The term Access Tandem denotes a Telephone Company or centralized equal access provider switching system that provides a concentration and distribution function for originating or terminating traffic between end offices and a Customer designated premises Aggregator The term Aggregator denotes any entity that in the ordinary course of its operations makes telephones available to the public or to transient users of its premises for Interstate telephone calls using a provider of operator services Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 45 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Answer Disconnect Supervision The term Answer Disconnect Supervision denotes the transmission of the switch trunk equipment supervisory signal off hook or on hook to the Customer s point of termination as an indication that the called party
151. l the business of Customer or pursuant to any financing merger or reorganization of Customer Any attempt of Customer to privileges or obligations under this Tariff without the consent of Company shall be null and void License Agency or Partnership No license express or implied is granted by Company to Customer by virtue of an agreement for the furnishing of service hereunder Neither Customer nor any joint or Authorized Users shall represent or otherwise indicate to its customers or others that the Company jointly participates in the Customer s or joint user s services The relationship between Company and Customer shall not be that of partners or agents for one or the other and shall not be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency agreement unless such relationship or agreement is expressly agreed to in writing by both Company and Customer Proprietary Information Neither Company nor Customer or any joint or authorized user shall disclose any plans drawings trade secrets or other proprietary information of the other party Company s Right to Assign Designate or Change Telephone Number The Company reserves the reasonable right to assign designate or change telephone numbers any other call number designation associated with Access Services or the Company serving central office prefixes associated with such numbers when necessary in conduct of its business Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4
152. lication of Rate cont d C Application of Rates cont d 2 Credit for 888 SAC Traffic In those instances where an SSP equipped end office is capable of handling 800 SAC traffic on a direct trunked basis and the Customer has direct trunked transport facilities in place at the end office but the end office is incapable of handling 888 SAC traffic on a direct trunked basis a full credit will be provided for Tandem Switched Transport Charges associated with FGD service for 888 SAC traffic delivered at the tandem This results in all 800 series traffic being rated as direct trunked transport regardless of whether the SSP equipped end office is capable of handling 888 SAC traffic on a direct trunked basis The credit will expire when 888 SAC SSP functionality is implemented in the end office 3 Common Channel Signaling Signaling System 7 CCS SS7 Network Connection Service The CCS SS7 network connection is comprised of a Signaling Mileage Facility Charge a Signaling Mileage Termination Charge a Signaling Entrance Facility Charge and a Signaling Transfer Point STP Port Charge The Signaling Mileage Facility Charge is assessed on a per facility per mile basis The Signaling Mileage Termination Charge is assessed on a per termination basis i e at each end of the signaling mileage facility When the signaling mileage facility mileage measurement is zero 0 Signaling Mileage Termination Charges do not apply The Signaling Entran
153. lows the Customer to specify the receive level at the Point of Termination POT The level must be within a specific range on effective four 4 wire transmission The ranges are delineated in Technical Reference TR TS Y 000335 D Improved Return Loss 1 On Effective Four 4 Wire Transmission at Four 4 Wire Point of Termination POT applicable to each two 2 wire port Provides for a fixed 600 ohm impedance variable level range and simplex reversal Company equipment is required at the Customer s premises where this option is ordered The Improved Return Loss parameters are delineated in Technical Reference TR TS Y 000335 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 132 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description cont d 7 2 1 Voice Grade Service cont d 7 2 1 2 Optional Features and Functions cont d 2 On Effective Two 2 Wire Transmission at Two 2 Wire Point of Termination POT Provides for more stringent echo control specifications In order for this option to be applicable the transmission path must be four 4 wire at one POT and two 2 wire at the other POT Placement of Company equipment may be required at the Customer s premises with the two 2 wire POT The Improved Return
154. made using 1 actual minutes of use if available 2 standard Company traffic engineering methodology and will be based on the last trunk CCS desired for the high usage group as described in Section 5 4 4 or 3 an apportionment mutually agreed to by the Company and the Customer This apportionment will serve as the basis for local transport calculation Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 109 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 3 Mileage Measurement cont d B Feature Group D WATS The local transport facility for Feature Groups D Switched Access Service connected with Special Access Service at a WATS serving office will be measured between the WATS serving office when measured access minutes of use are used and the serving wire center for the Customer designated premises C Use of the Company Hub When multiplexing is performed at Company hubs mileage is computed and rates applied separately for each segment of the local transport direct trunked facility i e Customer serving wire center to hub hub to hub and or hub to end office 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features Following are descriptions of the various non chargeable optional featur
155. me of day place or origination of the call etc and 4 multiple Carrier routing which allows subscribers to route to different Carriers The description and application of this charge is set forth in Section 5 4 1 following 5 1 4 Special Facilities Routing Any Customer may request that the facilities used to provide Switched Access Service be specially routed The regulations for special facilities routing 1 e Avoidance Diversity and Cable Only are set forth in Section 8 following Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 97 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 5 Design Layout Report At the request of the Customer the Company will provide to the Customer the makeup of the facilities and services provided from the Customer s premises to the first point of switching This information will be provided in the form of a Design Layout Report The Design Layout Report will be provided to the Customer at no charge and will be reissued or updated whenever these facilities are materially changed 5 2 Undertaking of the Company In addition to the obligations set forth in Section 2 the Company has certain other obligations concerning only the provision of Switched Access Servic
156. ments cont d 3 2 4 3 2 5 3 2 6 800 Data Base Access Service For 800 Data Base Access Service as described in Section 5 4 5 c following the Customer must order FGD to those access tandems or end offices designated as Service Switching Points SSP for 800 data base service or to those non SSP equipped end offices that can accommodate direct trunking of originating 800 calls All traffic originating from end offices not equipped to provide SS7 signaling and routing or not able to accommodate direct trunking of originating 800 calls require routing via an access tandem where SSP functionality is available Special Access Service When placing an order for Special Access Service the Customer must specify The Customer designated premises or hubs involved Type of service e g Voice Grade or High Capacity The channel interface s For multipoint services the channel interface at each Customer designated premises may at the request of the Customer be different but all such interfaces shall be compatible and That the traffic consists of more than ten 10 percent Interstate traffic When ordering bridging and or multiplexing the Customer must specify the Company hub s from which they desire service The Customer must specify only those hubs that provide the type of service ordered and interconnect with the wire center s from which the Customer requires service cos m Miscellaneous Services Test
157. mstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 54 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Frame Relay Access Service The term Frame Relay Access Service denotes a medium speed connection oriented packet switched data service that allows for the interconnection of Local Area Networks or other compatible end user Customer premises equipment for the purpose of connecting to an access Customer s Interstate network Frame Relay End User Port The term Frame Relay End User Port denotes the physical location in a Telephone Company switching office where the special access facility of the Customer connects to the Frame Relay Access Service Network It receives the data frame from the end user Customer s Local Area Network or other compatible CPE devices and verifies that the end user connection and the corresponding access Customer connection are valid before relaying the frame to the destination end point Frequency Shift The term Frequency Shift denotes the change in the frequency of a tone as it is transmitted over a channel Host Central Office The term Host Central Office denotes an electronic local Telephone Company End Office where Telephone Exchange Service Customer station loops are terminated for purposes of interconnection to each other and to trunks Additionally this type of End Office contains the central c
158. n of an Access Order cont d B When a Customer cancels an Access Order for the installation of service a Cancellation Charge will apply as follows 1 Installation of Switched Access Service facilities is considered to have started when the Company incurs any cost in connection therewith or in preparation thereof which would not otherwise have been incurred 2 Where the Customer cancels an Access Order prior to the start of installation of access facilities no charges shall apply 3 Where installation of access facilities has been started prior to the cancellation the charges specified in paragraphs a or b following whichever is lower shall apply A charge equal to the costs incurred in such installation less estimated net salvage Such costs include the non recoverable cost of equipment and material ordered provided or used plus the non recoverable cost of installation and removal including the costs of engineering labor supervision transportation rights of way and other associated costs or The minimum period charges for Switched or Special Access Service ordered by the Customer C When a Customer cancels an order for the discontinuance of service no charges apply for the cancellation D If the Company misses a service date by more than thirty 30 days and such delay is not requested or caused by the Customer excluding those circumstances where the date is missed due to acts of God governmental requirements
159. nal Page 154 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 9 SPECIALIZED SERVICE OR ARRANGEMENTS 9 1 General Specialized Service or Arrangements may be provided by the Company at the request of a Customer on an individual case basis if such service or arrangements meet the following criteria The requested service or arrangements are not offered under other Sections of this Tariff The facilities utilized to provide the requested service or arrangements are of a type normally used by the Company in furnishing its other services The requested service or arrangements are compatible with other Company services facilities and its engineering and maintenance practices This offering is subject to the availability of the necessary Company personnel and capital resources Rates and charges and additional regulations if applicable for Specialized Service or Arrangements are provided on an individual case basis Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 155 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES In this Section normally scheduled working hours are an employee s scheduled work period in any given calendar day e g 8 00 a m to 5 00 p m for the application of rates b
160. ne Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 128 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE 7 1 General Special Access Service provides a dedicated transmission path to connect a Customer designated premises directly through a Company hub or hubs where bridging or multiplexing functions are performed or to connect a Customer designated premises and a WATS Serving Office The Company Centrex CO and CO like switches and packet switches included in Public Packet Switching Network PPSN Service are considered to be Customer designated premises for purpose of this Tariff Special Access includes all exchange access not utilizing the Company s switching equipment Special Access Service consists of any of the services offered hereunder either individually or in combination Each service is offered independently of all others The connections provided by Special Access Service can be either analog or digital A analog connection is differentiated by spectrum and bandwidth A digital connection is differentiated by bit rate Company services may be connected to the services or facilities of other communications carriers only when authorized by in accordance with the terms and conditions of any Tariffs of such other communications carriers Rates and charges for Special Access Service are set forth in Section 17 following Issued O
161. ne Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 50 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Direct Trunked Transport The term Direct Trunked Transport denotes transport from the serving wire center to the end office or from the serving wire center to the access tandem on circuits dedicated to the use of a single Customer Directory Assistance Interstate The term Directory Assistance denotes the provision of telephone numbers by an operator when the operator location is accessed by a Customer s end user dialing NPA 555 1212 or 555 1212 Directory Assistance Location Interstate The term Directory Assistance Location denotes a Telephone Company office where Telephone Company equipment first receives the Directory Assistance call from the Customer s end user and selects the first operator position to respond to the Directory Assistance call Dual Tone Multifrequency Address Signaling The term Dual Tone Multifrequency Address Signaling denotes a type of signaling that is an optional feature of Switched Access Feature Group A It may be utilized when Feature Group A is being used in the terminating direction from the point of termination with the customer to the local exchange end office An office arranged for Dual Tone Multifrequency Signaling would expect to receive add
162. ng Services cont d Switched Access Service cont d A Additional Cooperative Acceptance Testing cont d Additional cooperative acceptance tests may for example consist of the following tests Impulse Noise Phase Jitter Signal to C Notched Noise Ratio Intermodulation Nonlinear Distortion Frequency Shift Offset Envelope Delay Distortion Dial Pulse Percent Break Additional Automatic Testing Additional automatic testing of Switched Access Services is a testing where the Customer provides remote office test lines and 105 test lines with associated responders or their functional equivalent The Customer may order at additional charges gain slope and C notched noise testing and may order the routine tests 1004 Hz loss C Message Noise and Balance on an as needed or more than routine schedule The Company will provide a report that lists the test results for each trunk tested Trunk test failures requiring Customer participation for trouble resolution will be provided to the Customer on a per occurrence basis The additional tests 1 e gain slope C notched noise 1004 Hz loss C message noise and balance may be ordered by the Customer at additional charges sixty 60 days prior to the start of the Customer prescribed schedule Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C N
163. ng type charges 3 termination liabilities or 4 combinations thereof Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 123 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 6 PRESUBSCRIPTION SERVICE 6 1 Presubscription A Description Presubscription is a process whereby an end user or location provider may select and designate to the Company the primary toll carrier s they wish to access on a direct dialed basis without dialing an access code for calls leaving the local service area of the Company The list of toll providers providing Interstate toll service s to the Company s serving area is made available to the end user or location provider in the Company s service guide Should a caller wish to use the services of a toll provider other than the designated toll provider on the line it will be necessary for the caller to dial the appropriate toll provider access code Provisions 1 Charge Applications End Users or location providers placing orders for service will be asked to designate a primary toll provider at the time they place an order with the Company for Exchange Service This selection is made free of charge The non recurring charge for a primary toll provider change is billed to the end user subscribed to the Exchange Service Howeve
164. nication Service Priority TSP System for National Security Emergency Preparedness NSEP Service User Manual National Communications System NCSM 3 1 1 Issued July 1990 Available August 1990 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 12 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 1 APPLICATION OF TARIFF The terms and conditions in this Tariff apply to the Interstate Common Carrier Telecommunications Services provided by the Issuing Carriers of this Tariff hereinafter the Company The Company may provide any of the services offered under this Tariff or any combination of services to Customers through the use of contracts Terms and conditions of each contract offering is subject to the agreement of both the Customer and the Company Customized service packages and competitive pricing arrangements at negotiated rates may be furnished on an individual case basis Rates in other Sections of this Tariff do not apply to Customers who agree to contract arrangements with respect to services within the scope of the contract Specialized rates or charges will be made available to similarly situated Customers on a non discriminatory basis Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania
165. nnel of the service ordered and the requested changes to determine what changes in the design if any are necessary to meet the changes requested by the Customer Design change include such things as the addition or deletion of optional features or functions or a change in the type of Transport Termination Switched Access only type of channel interface type of Interface Group or technical specification package Design changes do not include a change of Customer premises end user premises to a different serving wire center or end office switch Changes of this nature will require the issuance of a new order and the cancellation of the original order with appropriate cancellation charges applied Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 78 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 4 Charges Associated with Access Ordering cont d 3 4 3 Access Order Change Charges cont d B Design Change cont d The Company will review the requested changes notify the customer whether the change is a design change if the change can be accommodated and if a new service date is required If the Customer authorizes the Company to proceed with the design change a Design Change Charge will apply in addition to the charge for Additional
166. nsport Transport Facility Tandem Switched Tandem Windstream Termination Switching Pennsylvania Windstream Windstream Pennsylvania Pennsylvania West Virginia Frontier 6 9 1 B Switched 6 9 1 B Switched 6 9 1 B Switched Telephone Companies Transport Tandem Transport Transport TARIFF F C C NO 4 Switched Transport Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Transport Transport Transport Usage Rate Per Tandem Tandem Mile Rate Zone 1 Transport Usage Rate Fixed Rate Zone 1 Switching Rate Zone 1 M Material now appearing on this page previously appeared on Page 174 Issued May 11 2012 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 By Effective Date May 12 2012 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 176 Cancels Original Page 176 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 2 Local Transport cont d Premium Access cont d Common Transport Multiplexing Common Tandem Trunk Port State ILEC Tariff Reference Common Transport Multiplexing Per Access Minute Common Tandem Trunk Port Per Access Minute Kentucky WINDSTREAM TELEPHONE SYSTEM TARIFF F C C NO 6 17 2 2 A Local Transport Premium Access Tandem Switched Transport Tandem 17 2 3 D Local
167. nsylvania 16001 By Rate Regulations This Section contains the specific regulations governing the rates and charges applicable to Special Access Service 7 9 1 Rate Categories There are three basic rate categories which apply to Special Access Service Channel Termination Channel Mileage Optional Features and Functions A Channel Termination The Channel Termination rate category recovers the costs associated with the communications path between a Customer designated premises and the serving wire center of that premises Included as part of the Channel Termination is a standard channel interface arrangement which defines the technical characteristics associated with the type of facilities to which the access service is to be connected at the Point of Termination POT and the type of signaling capability if any The signaling capability is provided as an optional feature as set forth in paragraph C following One Channel Termination charge applies per Customer designated premises at which the channel is terminated This charge will apply even if the Customer designated premises and the serving wire center are collocated in a Company building For DS3 High Capacity Service the Channel Termination rates are made up of the DS3 Capacity Interface rate and the DS3 Channel Installed rate The Capacity Interface rate is dependent upon the capacity ordered i e Capacity Interface of 1 3 6 or 12 and is applicable at each C
168. nt d 2 5 2 6 Interconnection Service furnished by the Company may be interconnected with services or facilities of other authorized communications common carriers and with private systems if authorized by the Company and subject to technical limitations established by the Company Service furnished by such interconnection is not part of a joint undertaking with such other common carriers or systems The Company does not undertake to provide any special facilities equipment or services to enable the Customer to interconnect the facilities or the equipment of the Company with services or facilities of other common carriers or with private systems Inspection Testing and Adjustment The Company may upon reasonable notice make such tests and inspections as may be necessary to determine whether the terms and conditions of this Tariff are being complied with in the installation operation or maintenance of the Customer s or the Company s facilities or equipment The Company may interrupt service at any time without penalty or liability due to the departure from or reasonable suspicion of the noncompliance of the Customer Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 36 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d
169. number for calls in the North American Numbering Plan NANP For international calls outside the NANP a seven 7 to twelve 12 digit number may be dialed When the 10XXX or 101 X XXX access code is used FGD Service also provides for dialing the digit 0 or 00 for access to the Customer s operator and 911 for access to emergency reporting service A Customer may order 950 on FGD to activate a Customer s designated 950 XXXX access code This will allow the Company to direct those designated 950 XXXX calls dialed by the Customer s end users to the Customer s access service The Customer must be prepared to handle normally dialed FGD calls as well as calls dialed with the designated 950 XXXX access code which requires the Customer to receive additional address signaling Such calls will be rated as FGD Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 85 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 1 Description and Provision of Switched Access Service Arrangements cont d A Description cont d 6 There are various optional features associated with Local Transport Common Switching and Transport Termination Services available Operator Transfer Service forwarding of 0 calls may be provided ov
170. o 1 Original Page 160 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES cont d 10 3 Miscellaneous Services cont d 10 3 1 Testing Services cont d 10 3 1 1 Switched Access Service cont d C Additional Manual Testing Additional manual testing of Switched Access Services FGD and Directory Access Service not routed through an access tandem is testing where the Company provides a technician at its office s and the Company or Customer provides a technician at the Customer designated premises with suitable test equipment to perform the required tests Such additional tests will normally consist of gain slope and C notched noise testing However the Company will conduct any additional tests the Customer may request The Company will provide a report listing the test results for each trunk tested Trunk test failures requiring Customer participation for trouble resolution will be provided to the Customer on a per occurrence basis Additional manual tests may be ordered by the Customer at additional charges sixty 60 days prior to the start of the testing schedule as mutually agreed to by the Customer and the Company D Obligations of the Customer 1 The Customer shall provide the remote office test line priming data to the Company as appropriate to support routine testing as set forth in Section 5 2 2 B preceding 2 The Customer shall make t
171. o 1 Original Page 20 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 10 Liability cont d E Damages to Customer Premises The Company is not liable for damages to the Customer s premises resulting from the furnishing of a service including the installation and removal of equipment and associated wiring unless the damage is caused by the willful misconduct of the Company s employees or agents F Indemnification of the Company The Customer and the End User shall indemnify defend and hold harmless the Company including the costs of reasonable attorney s fees against 1 Claims for libel slander infringement of copyright or unauthorized use of any trademark trade name or service mark arising out of the material data information or other content transmitted over the Company s facilities or equipment 2 Claims for patent infringement arising from combining or connecting the Company s facilities or equipment with facilities equipment apparatus or systems of the Customer and 3 Allother claims including without limitation claims for damage to any business or property or injury to or death of any person arising out of any act or omission of the Customer the Customer s agents or Authorized Users in connection with any service or facilities or equipment provided by the Company Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By
172. o handle its traffic Rate Regulations This Section contains the specific regulations governing the rates and charges that apply for Switched Access Service 5 4 1 Description and Application of Rate There are two 2 types of rates and charges that apply to Switched Access Service recurring usage and flat rates and nonrecurring charges These rates and charges are applied differently to the various rate elements as set forth in paragraph C following Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 101 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 1 Descriptions and Application of Rate cont d A Recurring Rates 1 Usage rates for Switched Access Service are rates that apply on a per access minute or a per call basis Access minute charges and per call charges are accumulated over a monthly period 2 Hlat rates for Switched Access Service are rates that apply on a per month per rate element basis B Non recurring Charges Non recurring charges are one 1 time charges that apply for a specific work activity i e installation or change to an existing service The types of non recurring charges that apply for Switched Access Service are installation of se
173. od of implementing effective four 4 wire transmission is at the discretion of the Company physical time domain frequency domain separation or echo cancellation techniques Effective four 4 wire channels may be terminated with a two 2 wire interface at the Customer s premises However when terminated two 2 wire simultaneous independent transmission cannot be supported because the two 2 wire interface combines the transmission paths into a single path End Office The term End Office denotes a local Company switching system where Telephone Exchange Service Customer station loops are terminated for purposes of interconnection to each other and to trunks This term includes Remote Switching Modules Systems served by a Host Central Office in a different wire center End User The term End User means any Customer of an Interstate or foreign telecommunications service that is not a Carrier except that a Carrier other than a Telephone Company shall be deemed to be an end user when such Carrier uses a telecommunications service for administrative purposes and a person or entity that offers telecommunications service exclusively as a reseller shall be deemed to be an end user if all resale transmissions offered by such reseller originate on the premises of such reseller Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Tel
174. office is not routed through an access tandem for connection to the Customer usage measurement begins when the SS7 initial address message is sent from the Service Switching Point SSP to the Service Transfer Point STP For originating calls over FGD provided with Signaling System 7 SS7 signaling when the FGD end office is routed through a tandem for connection to the Customer usage measurement begins when the FGD end office receives the SS7 exit message from the tandem Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 121 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 7 Measuring Access Minutes cont d The measurement of originating call usage over FGD provided with MF signaling ends when the originating FGD first point of switching receives disconnect supervision from either the originating end user s end office indicating the originating end user has disconnected or the Customer s point of termination whichever is recognized first by the first point of switching The measurement of originating call usage over FGD provided with SS7 signaling ends when the originating FGD end office receives an SS7 release message indicating either the originating or terminating end user has disconnected B Issu
175. offices However certain non SSP equipped end offices can accommodate direct trunking of originating 800 series type calls The direct trunking of originating 800 service type calls will be available if the end office can accommodate the service Local Transport is provided at the rates and charges set forth in Sections 17 The application of these rates is as set forth in Section 5 4 1 C following The Local Transport Rate Category includes five 5 classes of rate elements 1 Entrance Facility 2 Transport Interconnection Charge 3 Multiplexing 4 Direct Trunked Transport or 5 Tandem Switched Transport When more than one Company is involved in providing the Switched Access Service to a Customer for the provision of transport each Company will provide it s portion of transport to the interconnection point with the next Company The mileage used to calculate charges for the Company s transport interconnections is as set forth in Section 5 4 3 following Entrance Facility The Entrance Facility Charge recovers a portion of the costs associated with a communications path between a Customer designated premises and the serving wire center of that premises Included as part of the entrance facility is a standard channel interface arrangement which defines the technical characteristics associated with the type of facilities to which the access service is to be connected at the Customer designated premises and the type of signaling capability
176. oice date Any objections to billed charges must be reported to the Company or its billing agent within ninety 90 days commencing five 5 days after remittance of the bill All undisputed portions of the bill must be paid by the due date to avoid late payment charges if any C Deposits The Company reserves the right to examine the credit record of the Customer If the Customer s financial condition is unknown or unacceptable to the Company the Customer may be required to provide the Company with a security deposit which the Company may apply against overdue charges The following regulations apply 1 The amount of the deposit shall not exceed the actual or estimated rates and charges for the service for a two 2 month period 2 The deposit in no way relieves the Customer from complying with the Company s regulations as to the prompt payment of bills at presentation 3 Atany time at its option the Company may return the deposit or credit it to the Customer s account 4 When the service to the Customer is terminated the amount of deposit will be credited to the Customer s account and any credit balance refunded Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 38 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 7 Payment Arr
177. omer actually makes the payment to the Company or b 0 000292 per day compounded daily for the number of days from the payment date to and including the date that the customer actually makes the payment to the Company Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 25 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 3 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 2 2 3 3 2 3 4 Damages The Customer shall be responsible for any damage to or loss of the Company s facilities or equipment caused by the acts or omissions of the Customer Equipment Space and Power The Customer shall provide as specified from time to time by the Company any personnel equipment space power heating and air conditioning needed to operate and maintain a proper operating environment for Company facilities and equipment installed on the Customer s premises Rights of way The Customer shall at the option of the Company obtain maintain and otherwise have full responsibility for all rights of way and conduit necessary for installation of Company facilities from the building entrance or property line to the location of Company s equipment space on the Customer s premises Any costs associated with obtaining and maintaining the rights of
178. ormation about that trunk along with other data relating to the routing and handling of the call to the next switch Inserted Connection Loss The term Inserted Connection Loss denotes the 1004 Hz power difference in dB between the maximum power available at the originating end and the actual power reaching the terminating end through the inserted connection Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 56 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Installation and Repair Technician The term Installation and Repair Technician denotes a Company employee who performs installation and or repair work including testing and trouble isolation outside of the Company Central Office and generally at the Customer designated premises Interexchange Carrier IC or Interexchange Common Carrier The terms Interexchange Carrier IC or Interexchange Common Carrier denotes any individual partnership association joint stock company trust governmental entity or corporation engaged for hire in Interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio between two 2 or more exchanges Intermediate Hub A wire center at which bridging or multiplexing functions are performed only for Customers served by
179. orwarded from the Customer to the Company This feature is provided in all Company designated WATS Serving Offices J Uniform Call Distribution Arrangement for Use with Special Access Service Utilized in the Provision of WATS or WATS Type Services This option provides a type of multi line hunting arrangement which provides for an even distribution of terminating calls among the available Special Access Services utilized in the provision of WATS or WATS type Services in the hunt group Where available this feature is only provided in Company designated WATS Serving Offices K Nonhunting Number Associated with Hunt Group Arrangement or Uniform Call Distribution Arrangement for Use with Special Access Service Utilized in the Provision of WATS or WATS Type Services This option provides an arrangement for an individual Special Access Service utilized in the provision of WATS or WATS type Services within a multi line hunt or uniform call distribution group that provides access to that Special Access Service within the hunt or uniform call distribution group when it is idle or provide busy tone when it is busy when the nonhunting number is dialed without hunting to the next idle number Where available this feature is only provided in Company designated WATS Serving Offices Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunica
180. otal traffic A Ifthe Customer estimates that the Interstate traffic on the service involved constitutes less than ten 10 percent of the Customer s total traffic on that service the service will be provided in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations of the Company s Intrastate Access Tariff B Ifthe Customer estimates that the Interstate traffic on the service involved constitutes ten 10 percent or more of the Customer s total traffic on that service the service will be provided in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations of this Tariff Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 32 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 219 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 11 Jurisdictional Reports Verification A Issued October 3 2011 For Switched Access Service if a billing dispute arises concerning the PIU the Company will ask the Customer to provide the data the Customer uses to determine the PIU The Customer will supply the data within thirty 30 days of the Company request The Customer shall keep records of call detail from which the PIU can be ascertained and upon request of the Company shall make the records available for inspection as reasonably necessary for purposes of
181. otocol limited by the technical availability B End Office The End Office rate category establishes the charges related to the local end office switching and end user termination functions necessary to complete the transmission of switched access communications to and from the end users served by the local end office The End Office rate category includes the Local Switching and Information Surcharge rate elements 1 Local Switching The Local Switching rate element establishes the charges related to the use of end office switching equipment the terminations in the end office of end user lines and the terminations of calls at the Company intercept operators or recordings Where end offices are appropriately equipped international dialing may be provided as a capability which provides local dial switching for Feature Group D International dialing provides the capability of switching international calls with service prefix and address codes having more digits than are capable of being switched through a standard FGD equipped end office 2 Information Surcharge Information Surcharge rates are assessed to a Customer based on the total number of access minutes Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 95 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED A
182. ouble isolation within the Company Central Office Central Office Prefix The term Central Office Prefix denotes the first three 3 digits NXX of the seven 7 digit telephone number assigned to an end user s Telephone Exchange Service when dialed on a local basis Channel s The term Channel s denotes an electrical or photonic in the case of fiber optic based transmission systems communications path between two 2 or more points of termination Channel Service Unit The term Channel Service Unit denotes equipment which performs one 1 or more of the following functions termination of a digital facility regeneration of digital signals detection and or correction of signal format error and remote loop back Channelize The term Channelize denotes the process of multiplexing demultiplexing wider bandwidth or higher speed channels into narrower band width or lower speed channels Clear Channel Capability The term Clear Channel Capability denotes the ability to transport twenty four 24 64 Kbps over a DS1 Mbps High Capacity service via a B8ZS line code format C Message Noise The term C Message Noise denotes the frequency weighted average noise within an idle voice channel The frequency weighting called C message is used to simulate the frequency characteristic of the 500 type telephone set and the hearing of the average subscriber Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011
183. our Minutes of Capacity BHMC denotes the Customer specified maximum amount of Switched Access Service and or Directory Assistance Service access minutes the Customer expects to be handled in an end office switch during any hour in an 8 00 a m to 11 00 p m period for the Feature Group and or Directory Assistance Service ordered This Customer specified BHMC quantity is the input data the Company uses to determine the number Sr ansi ol paths for the Feature Group and or Directory Assistance Service ordered Call The term Call denotes a customer A for which complete address information e g 0 911 or 10 digits is provided to the serving dial tone office Carrier or Common Carrier See Interexchange Carrier CCS The term CCS denotes a hundred call seconds which is a standard unit of traffic load that is equal to 100 seconds of usage or capacity of a group of servers e g trunks Central Office See End Office Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 47 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Central Office Maintenance Technician The term Central Office Maintenance Technician denotes a Company employee who performs installation and or repair work including testing and tr
184. pedances at the junction of two 2 transmission paths The higher the return loss the higher the similarity Registered Equipment The term Registered Equipment denotes the Customer s premises equipment which complies with and has been approved within the Registration Provisions of Part 68 of the FCC s Rules and Regulations Service Access Code The term Service Access Code SAC denotes a three 3 digit code in the NPA format which is used as the first three 3 digits of a ten 10 digit address and which is assigned for special network uses Whereas NPA codes are normally used for identifying specific geographical areas certain SAC s have been allocated in the North American Numbering Plan to identify generic services or to provide access capability Examples of SAC s include the 800 and 900 codes Service Switching Point SSP A Service Switching Point denotes an end office or tandem which in addition to having SS7 and SP capabilities is also equipped to query centralized data bases Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 61 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Serving Wire Center The term Serving Wire Center denotes the wire center from which the Customer designated
185. port Zone 1 Zone 1 Fixed Tandem Switching NO 1 Per Mile Zone 1 Ohio 6 9 1 A Switched 6 9 1 A Switched 6 9 1 A M AMERITECH Transport Usage Transport Usage Switched OPERATING Charges Premium Charges Premium Transport Usage COMPANIES Rates Tandem Rates Tandem Charges Premium TARIFF F C C Switched Facility Switched Rates Tandem NO 2 Ohio Zone 4 Termination Ohio Switching Ohio Zone 4 Zone 4 M Effective Date May 12 2012 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 173 Cancels Original Page 173 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 2 Local Transport cont d Premium Access cont d TARIFF F C C NO 9 Ohio 1 Ohio Tandem Tandem Switched ace Switched State ILEC Transport Transport Transport Tariff Reference Tandem Tandem Switching Per Switched Facility Switched Tandem per Access Termination Minute per Mile Per Termination Ohio 6 8 2 C 1 6 8 2 C 1 6 8 2 C 2 CENTURYLINK Tandem Switched Tandem Switched Tandem Switched OPERATING Transmission Transmission Transmission COMPANIES Facility Zone 1 Termination Zone Tandem Switching Zone 1 Ohio 9 Ohio Frontier 4 6 2 A Tandem 4 6 2 B Tandem 4 6 2 C Tandem Telephone Switched Switched Switched Compan
186. provide the service on an expedited basis an Expedited Order Charge will apply in addition to the additional labor cost or extraordinary costs that are required to meet the requested service date The Company will provide the Customer with an estimate of additional cost Upon the Customer s agreement the Company will proceed with the requested service date Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 67 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 1 General cont d 3 1 3 Expedited Orders cont d A Customer may request a change of end user premises within the same serving wire center If the Customer requests an earlier service date an Expedited Order Charge will apply When the request for expediting occurs subsequent to the issuance of the access order a Service Date Change Charge as set forth in Section 17 4 1 B following will also apply When an expedited service date is missed the Expedited Order Charge will apply unless the missed service date is caused by the Company Selection of Facilities for Access Orders The option to request a specific transmission path or channel is only provided for High Capacity Facilities Special Access Service or as provided for under special facilities routing as set forth in S
187. r a toll provider may at its option elect to pay the non recurring charge on behalf of the end user Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 124 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 PRESUBSCRIPTION SERVICE cont d 6 1 Presubscription cont d B Provisions cont d 2 Dispute Application for Presubscription If the end user or location provider disputes a toll provider change the Company will investigate the origin of the change and shall restore the end user or location provider to their previous toll provider If the change was due to Company error the end user or location provider will be returned to their previous primary toll provider free of charge If the change was submitted by a toll provider and the toll provider is unable to produce the signed end user or location provider Letter of Authorization LOA the non recurring charges will be assessed to the unauthorized toll provider If there is a conflict between an end user a location provider or their respective agent on one hand and a toll provider on the other hand over the designation of the primary toll provider the Company will honor the designation selected by the end user or location provider or their respective agent regardless of any contractual obligations t
188. r 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 39 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 8 Cancellation of Service or Application for Service A Cancellation of Service The Customer may have service discontinued upon written notice to the Company The Company shall hold the Customer responsible for payment of all bills for service furnished until the cancellation date specified by the Customer or until the date that the written cancellation notice is received whichever is later If Customer cancels a service order or terminates service before the completion of the term of service specified in the service order for any reasons Customer agrees to pay to Company all costs fees and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with special construction and with the term of service In addition Customer may be liable for termination charges up to a maximum amount equal to the total of charges applicable for the remaining term specified in the service order discounted to present value B Cancellation of Application of Service Applications for service are non cancelable unless the Company otherwise agrees Where prior to cancellation by the Customer the Company incurs any expenses in installing the service or in preparing to install the service that
189. recovers the costs associated with optional features and functions which may be added to a Special Access Service to improve its quality or utility to meet specific communications requirements These are not necessarily identifiable with specific equipment but rather represent the end result in terms of performance characteristics that may be obtained These characteristics may be obtained by using various combinations of equipment Although the equipment necessary to perform a specified function may be installed at various locations along the path of the service they will be charged for as a single rate element Examples of Optional Features and Functions that are available include but are not limited to the following Signaling Capability Hubbing Functions Conditioning Transfer Arrangements Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 144 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 1 Rate Categories cont d Descriptions for each of the available Optional Features and Functions are set forth in Section 7 2 preceding A hub is a Company designated serving wire center at which bridging or multiplexing functions are performed The bridging functions performed are to connect three 3 or more Customer de
190. rect trunked transport is available to all tandems and to all end offices with the capability Direct trunked transport is not available from end offices that lack recording or measurement capability Normally direct trunked transport of originating 800 series type calls from an end office is available only from Service Switching Point SSP equipped end offices However certain non SSP equipped end offices can accommodate direct trunking of originating 800 series type calls High capacity DS3 direct trunked transport can not be terminated at end offices that are not identified as hub offices that provide DS3 to DS1 multiplexing Additionally DS1 direct trunked transport can not be terminated at end offices that are not identified as hub offices that provide DS1 to voice grade multiplexing or are not electronic end offices Direct Trunked Transport rates consist of a Direct Trunked Facility rate which is applied on a per mile basis and a Direct Trunked termination rate which is applied at each end of each measured segment of the direct trunked facility e g at the end office hub tandem and serving wire center When the direct trunked facility mileage is zero 0 neither the Direct Trunked Facility rate nor the Direct Trunked Termination rate will apply Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tari
191. ress signals from the customer in the form of Dual Tone Multifrequency signals Echo Control The term Echo Control denotes the control of reflected signals in a telephone transmission path Echo Path Loss The term Echo Path Loss denotes the measure of reflected signal at a four 4 wire point of interface without regard to the send and receive Transmission Level Point Echo Return Loss The term Echo Return Loss denotes a frequency weighted measure of return loss over the middle of the voiceband approximately 500 to 2500 Hz where talker echo is most annoying Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 51 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Effective Two 2 Wire The term Effective Two 2 Wire denotes a condition which permits the simultaneous transmission in both directions over a channel but it is not possible to insure independent information transmission in both directions Effective two 2 wire channels may be terminated with two 2 wire or four 4 wire interfaces Effective Four 4 Wire The term Effective Four 4 Wire denotes a condition which permits the simultaneous independent transmission of information in both directions over a channel The meth
192. rial data The actual bit rate is a function of the channel interface selected by the Customer High capacity channels are provided between Customer designated premises or between a Customer designated premises and a Company hub or hubs The Customer may provide the network channel terminating equipment associated with the high capacity channel at the Customer s premises Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 136 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 2 Description cont d 7 2 3 Special Access cont d 7 2 3 1 Basic Channel Description cont d A channel with technical specifications package HC1 will be capable of an error free second performance of 98 75 over a continuous twenty four 24 hour period as measured at the 1 544 Mbps rate through a CSU equivalent which is designed manufactured and maintained to conform with the specifications contained in Technical Reference PUB 62411 7 2 3 2 Optional Features and Functions A Transfer Arrangement An arrangement that affords the Customer an additional measure of flexibility in the use of their access channel s The arrangement can be utilized to transfer a leg of a Special Access Service to either a spare or working channel that terminates in eith
193. rruption as set forth in Section 2 7 2 preceding 5 2 2 Testing A Acceptance Testing At no additional charge the Company will at the Customer s request cooperatively test at the time of installation the following parameters loss C notched noise C message noise three 3 tone slope d c continuity and operational signaling When the local transport is provided with interface groups two 2 through ten 10 and the transport termination is two 2 wire i e there is a four 4 wire to two 2 wire conversion in local transport balance parameters equal level echo path loss may also be tested B Routine Testing At no additional charge the Company will at the Customer s request test after installation on an automatic or manual basis 1004 Hz loss C message noise and balance Improved Return loss In the case of automatic testing the customer shall provide remote office test lines and 105 test lines with associated responders or their functional equivalent The frequency of these tests will be that which is mutually agreed upon by the Customer and the Company but shall consist of not less than quarterly 1004 Hz Loss and C message noise tests and an annual Balance test Trunk test failures requiring Customer participation for trouble resolution will be provided to the Customer on an as occurs basis Additional tests may be ordered as set forth in Section 10 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D
194. rry addressed signaling messages for individual trunk circuits and or database related services between signaling points in the CCS network Communications System The term Communications System denotes channels and other facilities which are capable of communications between terminal equipment provided by other than the Company Constructive Order Delivery of calls to or acceptance of calls from the Company s End User locations over Company Switched local exchange services constitutes a Constructive Order by the Customer to purchase switched access services as described herein Similarly the selection by a Company s End User of the Customer as the presubscribed IC constitutes a Constructive Order of switched access by the Customer Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 49 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d Definitions cont d Customer s The term Customer s denotes any individual partnership association joint stock company trust corporation or governmental entity or other entity which subscribe to the services offered under this Tariff including both Interexchange Carriers ICs and End Users Customer Designated Premises The term Customer Designated Premises denotes the premises specified by the C
195. rs the costs associated with local transport that are not recovered by the Entrance Facility Direct Trunked Transport Tandem Switched Transport Multiplexing or Dedicated Signaling i e SS7 Charges The Transport Interconnection Charge specified applies to both tandem switched and direct trunked access minutes of use Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 90 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d A Local Transport cont d 3 Multiplexing DS3 to DS1 Multiplexing Charges apply when a high capacity DS3 entrance facility or high capacity DS3 direct trunked facility is connected with high capacity DS1 direct trunked transport The DS3 to DS1 multiplexer will convert a 44 736 Mbps channel to twenty eight 28 DSI channels using digital time division multiplexing DS1 to voice grade Multiplexing Charges apply when a high capacity DS1 entrance facility or high capacity DS1 direct trunked facility is connected with voice grade direct trunked transport However a DS1 to voice grade Multiplexing Charge does not apply when a high capacity DS1 entrance facility or high capacity DS1 direct trunked transport is terminated at an electronic end office and only Switche
196. rvice and service rearrangements These charges are in addition to the Access Order Charge 1 Installation of Service A non recurring Local Transport Installation Charge will be applied at the serving wire center for each entrance facility installed Additionally a non recurring Trunk Activation Charge will be applied at each end office when ordered to the end office or at the tandem when ordered to the tandem for each group of activated twenty four 24 direct trunked transport trunks or fraction thereof i e designated by the Customer to be used to carry switched access A maximum of twenty four 24 trunks can be activated on a DSI facility and a maximum of six hundred and seventy two 672 trunks can be activated on a DS3 facility Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 102 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 1 Descriptions and Application of Rate cont d B Non recurring Charges cont d 2 Service Rearrangements All changes to existing services other than changes involving administrative will be treated as a discontinuance of the existing service and an installation of a new service The non recurring charge described in paragraph 1 preceding will apply
197. s Title to all facilities and equipment and related plans and proposals provided by the Company in furnishing service remains with the Company its agents or contractors 2 1 4 Service Maintenance The services provided under this Tariff shall be maintained by the Company The Customer or others may not rearrange move disconnect remove or attempt to repair any facilities provided by the Company other than by connection or disconnection to any interface means used except with written consent of the Company 2 1 5 Changes and Substitutions The Company may substitute change or rearrange any equipment or facility at any time and from time to time but shall not thereby alter the technical parameters of the service provided the Customer Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 15 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 6 Shortage of Equipment or Facilities A Service is offered subject to the availability of the necessary facilities and or equipment and subject to the provisions of this Tariff The Company may decline applications for service to or from a location where the necessary facilities or equipment are not available The Company may discontinue furnish
198. s Extended Area Service See Exchange Extended PVC The term Extended PVC denotes the interconnection of a port on a Telephone Company s frame relay switch with a port on another interconnected Telephone Company s frame relay switch First Point of Switching The term First Point of Switching denotes the first Telephone Company or centralized equal access provider location at which switching occurs on the terminating path of a call proceeding from the Customer designated premises to the terminating end office and at the same time the last Telephone Company or centralized equal access provider location at which switching occurs on the originating path of a call proceeding from the originating end office to the Customer designated premises Frame The term Frame denotes a group of data bits in a specific format which enables network equipment to recognize the meaning and purpose of the specific bits Frame Relay Access Customer Port The term Frame Relay Access Customer Port denotes the physical location in a Telephone Company switching offices where the access Customer s special access facility connects to a Telephone Company s Frame Relay Access Service network It specifies how a frame relay switch sends and receives data from a frame relay access Customer s network Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Ar
199. s in whose territory the hub s is located Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 73 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 3 4 Charges A ssociated with Access Ordering 3 4 1 Access Order Charge The Access Order Charge is applied to all Customer requests for new Special and Switched Access Service In addition the Access Order Charge is applicable to Customer requests for additions changes or rearrangements to existing Special and Switched Access Service A The Access Order Charge does not apply A WO N e Nn when a Service Date Change Charge is applicable when a Design Change Charge is applicable to administrative changes as set forth in Section 5 4 1 following when a change to a pending order does not result in the cancellation of the pending order and the issuance of a new order when a Miscellaneous Service Order Charge is applicable when Company initiated network reconfiguration requires a Customer s existing access service to be reconfigured when a service with an ICB rate is converted to a similar service with a non ICB Tariff rate prior to the expiration of the ICB rate when a Billing Name and Address Order Charge is applicable or when a Presubscription Charge
200. s to an existing service the non recurring charge for the Channel Termination rate element will apply The charge s will apply only for the location s being added The charge s will be in addition to an Access Order Charge A move involves a change in the physical location of one 1 of the following The Point of Termination at the Customer s premises or The Customer s premises The charges for the move are dependent on whether the move is to a new location within the same building or to a different building Issued October 3 2011 By James D Mitchell Effective Date October 4 2011 Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 148 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 3 Moves cont d A Issued October 3 2011 Moves Within the Same Building When the move is to a new location within the same building the charge for the move will be an amount equal to one half of the non recurring i e installation charge for the service termination affected There will be no change in the minimum period requirements This charge is in addition to the Access Order Charge Moves To a Different Building Moves to a different building will be treated as a discontinuance and start of service and all associated non recurring charges will apply
201. s Service Priority is discontinued or when ordered coincident with an access order to install or change service In addition Additional Labor rates may be applicable when provisioning or restoring Switched or Special Access Services with Telecommunications Service Priority When the Customer requests an audit or a reconciliation of the Company s Telecommunications Service Priority records a Miscellaneous Service Order Charge and Additional Labor rates are applicable Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 164 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 11 RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 165 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 12 RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 166 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 13 RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President On
202. s and Transport Area denotes a geographic area established for the provision and administration of communications service It encompasses one 1 or more designated exchanges which are grouped to serve common social economic and other purposes Local Area Network The term Local Area Network denotes a network permitting the interconnection and intercommunication of a group of computers Loss Deviation The term Loss Deviation denotes the variation of the actual loss from the designed value Major Fraction Thereof The term Major Fraction Thereof denotes any period of time in excess of one half 1 2 of the stated amount of time As an example in considering a period of twenty four 24 hours a major fraction thereof would be any period of time in excess of twelve 12 hours exactly Therefore if a given service is interrupted for a period of thirty six 36 hours and fifteen 15 minutes the Customer would be given a credit allowance for two 2 twenty four 24 hour periods for a total of forty eight 48 hours Message The term Message denotes a call as defined preceding Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 58 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Milliwatt 102 Type Test Lin
203. s data base to identify the Customer to whom the call will be delivered and provide vertical features based on the dialed ten 10 digits The call will then be routed to the identified customer over FGD switched access Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 96 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 1 General cont d 5 1 3 Rate Categories cont d C Chargeable Optional Features cont d 2 800 Series Data Base Access Service cont d A Basic or Vertical Feature Query Charge is assessed for each query launched to the database which identifies the Customer to whom the call will be delivered The basic query provides the identification of the Customer to whom the call will be delivered and includes area of service routing which allows routing of 800 series type calls by company to different interexchange carriers based on the LATA in which the call originates The vertical feature query provides the same Customer identification as the basic query and may include 1 call validation ensuring that calls originate from subscribed service areas 2 POTS translation of 800 series numbers 3 alternate POTS translation which allows subscribers to vary the routing of 800 series type calls based on factors such as ti
204. s services in a quantity greater than that which the Company would normally construct on an expedited basis on a temporary basis until permanent facilities are available involving abnormal costs or in advance of its normal construction schedules Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 23 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 2 Term and Charge of Service The minimum period for which services are provided and for which rates and charges are applicable is one 1 month unless otherwise specified in this Tariff or by mutually agreed upon contract When a service is discontinued prior to the expiration of the minimum period charges are applicable whether the service is used or not Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 24 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 3 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 Payment of Charges The Customer shall be responsible for payment of all applicable charges pursuant to this Tariff When mixed Interstate and Intrastate Switched Access Service is provided all ch
205. signated premises in a multi point arrangement The multiplexing functions are to channelize digital facilities to individual services requiring a lower capacity or bandwidth 7 9 2 Types of Rates and Charges There are three 3 types of rates and charges These are monthly rates daily rates and non recurring charges The rates and charges are described as follows A Monthly Rates Monthly rates are recurring rates that apply each month B Non recurring Charges Non recurring charges are one 1 time charges that apply for specific work activity 1 e installation or change to an existing service The types of non recurring charges that apply for Special Access Service are installation of service installation of optional features and functions and service rearrangements These charges are in addition to the Access Order Charge Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 145 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 2 Types of Rates and Charges cont d B Non recurring Charges cont d 1 Installation of Service Non recurring charges apply to each service installed The non recurring charges for the installation of service are set for each channel type as a non recurring
206. signment for each such service Individual Case Basis Arrangements Certain services set forth in Special Access Service Section 7 are provided on an Individual Case Basis Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 153 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 8 SPECIAL FACILITIES ROUTING OF ACCESS SERVICE 8 1 Description The services provided under this Tariff are provided over such routes and facilities as the Company may elect Special Facilities Routing is involved when in order to comply with requirements specified by the Customer the Company provides Switched Access Service Special Access Service in a manner which includes one 1 or more of the following conditions 8 1 1 Diversity Two 2 or more circuits must be provided over not more than two 2 different physical routes 8 1 2 Avoidance A circuit s must be provided on a route which avoids specified geographical locations 8 1 3 Diversity and Avoidance Combined Diversity and Avoidance may be provided in combination subject to Company limitations and availability Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Origi
207. ss Service associated with Carrier Common Lines Access shall be ordered by the Customer under other sections of this Tariff 4 2 2 Supervision The Customer facilities at the premises of the ordering Customer shall provide the necessary on hook and off hook supervision 4 3 Determination of Usage Subject to Carrier Common Line Access Charges Except as set forth herein all Switched Access Service provided to the Customer will be subject to Carrier Common Line Access Charges When the Customer reports interstate and Interstate use of Switched Access Service the associated Carrier Common Line Access used by the Customer for Interstate will be determined as set forth in Section 2 3 9 preceding Percent Interstate Use PSU Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 83 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES 5 1 General Switched Access Service which is available to Customers for their use in furnishing their services to end users provides a two 2 point communications path between a Customer designated premises and an end user s premises It provides for the use of common terminating switching and transport facilities and for the use of common subscriber plant of the Company Switched Access Service provides for the ability to originat
208. ss tandem switch for each of the arrangements ordered 5 3 2 Supervisory Signaling The Customer s facilities shall provide the necessary on hook off hook answer and disconnect supervision Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 100 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 53 54 Obligations of the Customer cont d 5 3 3 5 3 4 Short Duration Mass Calling Requirements When a Customer offers service for which a substantial call volume is expected during a short period of time e g 900 service media stimulated events the Customer must notify the Company at least forty eight 48 hours in advance of each peak period Notification should include the nature time duration and frequency of the event an estimated call volume and the telephone number s to be used On the basis of the information provided the Company may invoke network management controls e g call gapping and code blocking to reduce the probability of excessive network congestion The Company will work cooperatively with the Customer to determine the appropriate level of such control Design of Switched Access Service It is the Customer s responsibility to assure that sufficient Access Services have been ordered t
209. strong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 22 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 1 Undertaking of the Company cont d 2 1 11 Non routine Installation At the Customer s request installation and or maintenance may be performed outside the Company s regular business hours or in unusual locations In such cases charges based on cost of actual labor material or other costs incurred by or charged to the Company will apply If installation is started during regular business hours but at the Customer s request extends beyond regular business hours into time periods including but not limited to weekends holidays and or night hours additional charges may apply 2 1 12 Special Construction Subject to the agreement of the Company and to all of the regulations contained in this Tariff special construction of facilities may be undertaken on a reasonable efforts basis at the request of the Customer Special construction is that construction undertaken A ca mm amp Issued October 3 2011 where facilities are not presently available and there is no other requirement for the facilities to be constructed of a type other than that which the Company would normally utilize in the furnishing of its services over a route other than that which the Company would normally utilize in the furnishing of it
210. t the end users or location providers to contact the Company to select a new primary toll provider The Company will bill the canceling toll provider the service order charge for each end user and location provider the canceling toll provider has currently presubscribed to them Such charge will not apply to a canceling toll provider where the canceling toll provider transfers or assigns its FGD services and the associated carrier access code to another toll provider in such a manner that the Company does not change end user or location provider toll provider designations or if another toll provider elects to pay the toll provider change charge on behalf of the canceling toll provider The charge will apply if a mass conversion of access codes is requested by the Customer which causes the Company to change end user or location provider toll provider designations Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 126 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 6 PRESUBSCRIPTION SERVICE cont d 6 1 Presubscription contd C Verification of Orders for Long Distance Telemarketing No toll provider shall submit to the Company a primary toll provider change order generated by telemarketing unless and until the order has first been confirmed in accordance with one 1 of th
211. talled at the Customer s premises for any purpose other than for which the Company provides it without the prior written consent of the Company A The services the Company offers shall not be used for any unlawful purpose or for any use as to which the Customer has not obtained all required governmental approvals authorizations licenses consents and permits or used in an abusive manner Abusive use includes 1 The use of the service of the Company for a call or calls anonymous or otherwise in a manner reasonably expected to frighten abuse torment or harass another 2 The use of the service in such a manner as to interfere unreasonably with the use of the service by one 1 or more other Customers B The Company may require applicants for service who intend to use the Company s offerings for resale and or shared use to file a letter with the Company confirming that their use of the Company s offerings complies with relevant laws and commission regulations policies orders and decisions C The Company may require a Customer to immediately shut down its transmission of signals if said transmission is causing interference to others Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 35 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS co
212. tched Access Rates Switched Access F C C NO 16 and Charges Toll Free Rates and Charges Data Base Query Toll Free Data Base Service Basic Query Service Premium Pennsylvania 17 2 2 F Basic 17 2 2 F Enhanced WINDSTREAM TELEPHONE Query Windstream Query Windstream SYSTEM TARIFF F C C Pennsylvania Pennsylvania NO 6 F C C No 6 West Virginia Frontier Telephone Companies TARIFF F C C NO 4 6 9 1 N Toll Free Data Base Access Service Basic Query Charge 6 9 1 N Toll Free Data Base Vertical Feature Package VFP VFP Charge M Material now appearing on this page previously appeared on Page 179 Issued May 11 2012 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 179 1 N N M M Effective Date May 12 2012 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 180 Cancels Original Page 180 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 4 End Office A Local Switching Premium Per Access Minute Rate Band Information Surcharge Premium Per 100 Access Minutes Local Switching S urcharge State ILEC Tariff Reference Kentucky WINDSTREAM 17 2 3 A 1 b LS2 17 2 3 B Premium TELEPHONE SYSTEM Windstream Kentucky East Rate Windstream TARIFF F
213. tests with a Customer to verify facility repair on a given service 10 2 4 Testing and Maintenance with Other Companies Additional testing maintenance or repair of facilities which connect other Telephone Companies is that which is in addition to the normal effort required to test maintain or repair facilities provided solely by the Company Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 157 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 10 ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING ADDITIONAL LABOR AND MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES cont d 10 2 Additional Labor cont d 10 2 5 Other Labor Other labor is that additional labor not included in Sections 10 2 1 through 10 2 4 preceding and labor incurred to accommodate a specific Customer request that involves only labor which is not covered by any other Section of this Tariff 10 3 Miscellaneous Services 10 3 1 Testing Services Testing Services offered under this Section of the Tariff are optional and subject to rates and charges as set forth in Section 17 Should a Company employee be called out at a time not consecutive with the employee s scheduled work period the Customer is subject to a minimum charge of four 4 hours Other testing services as described in Sections 5 2 2 and 7 7 preceding are provided by the Company
214. that wire center and wire centers that subtend the hub Intermodulation Distortion The term Intermodulation Distortion denotes a measure of the nonlinearity of a channel Itis measured using four tones and evaluating the ratios in dB of the transmitted composite four tone signal power to the second order products of the tones R2 and the third order products of the tones R3 Interstate Communications The term Interstate Communications denotes any communications outside a State subject to oversight by the Federal Communications Commission Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 57 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Legal Holiday The term Legal Holiday denotes days other than Saturday or Sunday for which the Company is normally closed These include New Year s Day Independence Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day and a day when Washington s Birthday Memorial Day or Columbus Day is legally observed and other locally observed holidays when the Company is closed Line Side Connection The term Line Side Connection denotes a connection of a transmission path to the line side of a local exchange switching system Local Access and Transport Area LATA The term Local Acces
215. the stated Tariff rates for the Access Service rate elements for the service ordered 1 e Channel Terminations Channel Mileage as applicable and Optional Features and Functions if any Special Facilities Routing The Customer may request that the facilities used to provide Special Access Service be specially routed The regulations for Special Facilities Routing i e Avoidance Diversity are set forth in Section 8 Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 140 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 6 7 7 7 8 Design Layout Report At the request of the Customer the Company will provide to the Customer the make up of the facilities and services provided under this Tariff as Special Access Service to aid the Customer in designing its overall service This information will be provided in the form of a Design Layout Report The Design Layout Report will be provided to the Customer at no charge and will be reissued or updated whenever these facilities are materially changed Acceptance Testing At no additional charge the Company will at the Customer s request cooperatively test the following at the time of installation A Voice Grade Service For Voice Grade Service analog the acc
216. tions Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 113 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations Cont d 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features cont d 5 4 4 1 Common Switching Options cont d L Digital Switched 56 Service This option provides for a connection between a Customer s premises and a suitably equipped end user s premises which uses end office switching and facilities capable of transmitting digital data up to 56 Kilobits per second Digital Switched 56 Service is only available in appropriately provisioned Feature Group D offices 5 4 4 2 Transport Termination Options A Operator Trunk Full Feature This option provides the initial coin return control function to the Customer s operator It is provided as a trunk type for transport termination This feature is not available with SS7 signaling 5 4 4 3 Local Transport Options A Issued October 3 2011 Supervisory Signaling When the transmission parameters permit and where signaling conversion is required by the Customer to meet its signaling capability the Customer may order an optional supervisory signaling arrangement in the form of multi frequency signaling for each transmission path Multi frequency Address Signaling This optional feature provides for the transmission of number information and control signals e g number address signals automatic number identificat
217. tions of Premium Rate Band 1 Surcharge Pennsylvania Company Premium NATIONAL EXCHANGE CARRIER ASSOCIATION INC F C C NO 5 Pennsylvania THE 6 9 2 A Local VERIZON TELEPHONE Switching Premium COMPANIES TARIFF Rates LS2 Feature F C C NO 1 Group D Pennsylvania Verizon 6 6 7 A Local 6 6 7 B VERIZON TELEPHONE Switching Bundled Information COMPANIES TARIFF EOSB Surcharge F C C NO 16 Pennsylvania 17 2 3 A 1 b LS2 17 2 3 B WINDSTREAM Windstream Premium Rate TELEPHONE SYSTEM Pennsylvania Windstream TARIFF F C C NO 6 Pennsylvania West Virginia Frontier 6 9 2 A End Office Telephone Companies TARIFF F C C NO 4 Local Switching Premium Rates LS2 Feature Groups C amp D Tariff F C C No 1 First Revised Page 181 Cancels Original Page 181 M M M Material previously appearing on this page now appears on Page 180 1 Issued May 11 2012 James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 By Effective Date May 12 2012 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 182 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 17 RATES AND CHARGES cont d 17 2 Switched Access Service cont d 17 2 5 Operator Transfer Service Monthly Rate Per Call Transferred ICB 17 3 Special Access Service 17 3 1 Voice Grade Service A Channel Termination Per Termination 2 Wir
218. twork to query an 800 series service data base to perform the identification function The call will then be routed to the identified Customer over FGD switched access trunking The manner in which 800 Series Data Base Access Service is provided is dependent on the availability of SS7 Service at the end office from which the service is provided as outlined below If 800 Series Data Base Access Service originates at an end office equipped with Service Switching Point SSP capability for querying centralized data bases or at a non SSP equipped end office that can accommodate direct trunking of originating 800 series service type calls all such service will be provisioned from that end office If the end office is not equipped with the 888 SAC SSP capability the Customer must order tandem switched transport trunking to receive such traffic until the 888 SAC SSP capability becomes available If 800 Series Data Base Access Service originates at an end office not equipped with SSP Customer identification capability the 800 series service type call will be delivered to the access tandem on which the end office is homed and which is equipped with the SSP feature to query centralized data bases Query charges are in addition to those charges applicable for the FGD Switched Access Service Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tarif
219. ustomer designated premises The capacity ordered is the maximum number of DS3 services that can be terminated on a given service at the Customer designated premises e g a capacity of 3 can terminate 1 2 or 3 DS3 services One DS3 Channel Installed rate applies per Customer designated premises at which the channel is terminated for each DS3 channel that is ordered These charges will apply even if the Customer designated premises and the serving wire center are collocated in a Company building Effective Date October 4 2011 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 142 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 7 SPECIAL ACCESS SERVICE cont d 7 9 Rate Regulations cont d 7 9 1 Rate Categories cont d B Issued October 3 2011 Channel Mileage The Channel Mileage rate category recovers the costs associated with the end office equipment and the transmission facilities between the serving wire centers associated with two 2 Customer designated premises between a serving wire center associated with a Customer designated premises and a Company hub or between two 2 Company hubs Channel Mileage rates are made up of the Channel Mileage Facility rate and the Channel Mileage Termination rate l Channel Mileage Facility The Channel Mileage Facility rate recovers the per mile cost for the transmission path which extends between the Company serving wire centers and or hub s
220. ustomer for the provision of Access Service Data Transmission 107 Type Test Line The term Data Transmission 107 Type Test Line denotes an arrangement which provides for a connection to a signal source which provides test signals for one 1 way testing of data and voice transmission parameters Decibel The term Decibel denotes a unit used to express relative difference in power usually between acoustic or electric signals equal to ten 10 times the common logarithm of the ratio of two 2 signal powers Decibel Reference Noise C Message Weighting The term Decibel Reference Noise C Message Weighting denotes noise power measurements with C Message Weighting in decibels relative to a reference 1000 Hz tone of 90 dB below 1 milliwatt Decibel Reference Noise C Message Referenced to O The term Decibel Reference Noise C Message Referenced to O denotes noise power in Decibel Reference Noise C Message Weighting referred to or measured at a zero 0 transmission level point Detail Billing The term Detail Billing denotes the listing of each message and or rate element for which charges to a Customer are due on a bill prepared by the Company Digital Switched 56 Service A switched access optional feature available with Feature Group D Access which provides for data transmission at up to 56 Kilobits per second Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President O
221. uted to a no circuit announcement Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 111 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 5 SWITCHED ACCESS SERVICES cont d 5 4 Rate Regulations cont d 5 4 4 Non Chargeable Optional Features cont d 5 4 4 1 Common Switching Options cont d F International Carrier Option This option allows for end offices or access tandem switches equipped for International Direct Distance Dialing IDDD to be arranged to forward the international calls of one 1 or more International Carriers to the Customer i e the Company is able to route originating international calls to a Customer other than the one designated by the end user either through presubscription or access code dialing This arrangement requires provision of written verification to the Company that the Customer is authorized to forward such calls The written verification must be in the form of a letter of agency authorizing the Customer to order the option on behalf of the International Carrier G Band Advance Arrangement for Use with Special Access Service Utilized in the Provision of WATS or WATS Type Services This option which is provided in association with two 2 or more Special Access Service groups provides for the automatic overflow of terminating calls to a second
222. verification of the percentages The Company reserves the right to conduct an audit at any time during the year For Special Access Service if a billing dispute arises or a regulatory commission questions the projected PIU factor the Company will ask the Customer to provide that data the Customer used to determine the PIU The Customer shall supply the data within thirty 30 days of the Company request The Customer shall keep records of system design and functions from which the percentage was determined and upon request of the Company shall make the records available for inspection as reasonably necessary for purposes of verifications of percentages Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 33 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 219 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 12 Payment of Service Charges Imposed by Another Entity The Customer shall be responsible for the payment of service charges imposed on the Company by another entity for visits to the Customer premises when the service difficulty or trouble report results from the use of equipment or facilities provided by any party other than the Company including but not limited to the Customer 2 3 13 Ordering Where More than One Company is Involved The Company
223. ways described herein including any building modification costs shall be borne entirely by the Customer Customer shall also be responsible for complying with all applicable laws and obtaining all required permits or other approvals related to the location and installation of Company facilities and equipment in the Customer s premises or within the rights of way for which the Customer is responsible Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 26 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 3 Obligations of the Customer cont d 2 3 5 Availability for Installing Maintaining and Removing The Customer shall grant or obtain permission for Company employees or agents to enter the premises of the Customer at any time for the purpose of installing inspecting maintaining repairing or removing the facilities or equipment of the Company and or inspecting Customer provided equipment which is connected to Company s facilities 2 3 6 Customer Provided Equipment The Customer shall be responsible for the provision operation and maintenance of any Customer Provided Equipment CPE which is connected to Company s equipment and or facilities and for ensuring that such CPE is compatible with Company equipment and facil
224. wing When all or a portion of service is ordered as direct trunked transport the Customer must specify the type and quantity of direct trunked transport facility e g voice grade or high capacity DS1 or DS3 The Customer must also specify the type of entrance facility to be used for Switched Access Service e g voice grade or high capacity For high capacity entrance facilities the Customer must specify the facility assignment and the channel assignment for each trunk When the Customer has both tandem switched transport and direct trunked transport at the same end office the Customer will be provided Alternate Traffic Routing as set forth in Section 5 4 4 When placing an order for Switched Access Service the Customer shall provide l The number of trunks desired between Customer designated premises and an entry switch or Operator Transfer Service location 2 Optional Features 3 A projected PIU as set forth in Section 2 Effective Date October 4 2011 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 69 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 3 ACCESS ORDERING cont d 32 Ordering Requirements cont d 32 1 3 22 3 23 Switched Access Service cont d F When ordering by trunk to an access tandem the Customer must provide the Company with an estimate of the amount of traffic it will generate to and or from each end office subtending the access tandem to assist the
225. witched at a tandem Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 63 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Terminating Direction The term Terminating Direction denotes the use of Access Service for the completion of calls from an IXC premises to an End User premises Terminus Hub A wire center at which bridging or multiplexing functions are performed only for Customers served directly by the same wire center Throughput The term Throughput denotes the number of data bits successfully transferred in one 1 direction per unit of time Transmission Measuring 105 Type Test Line Responder The term Transmission Measuring 105 Type Test Line Responder denotes an eran meat in an end office which provides far end access to a responder and permits two 2 way loss and noise measurements to be made on trunks from a near end office Transmission Path The term Transmission Path denotes an electrical path capable of transmitting signals within the range of the service offering e g a voice grade transmission path is capable of transmitting voice frequencies within the approximate range of 300 to 3000 Hz transmission path is comprised of physical or derived facilities consisting o
226. y Access Service network Point of Termination The term Point of Termination denotes the point of demarcation within a Customer designated premises at which the Company s responsibility for the provision of Access Service ends Premises The term Premises denotes a building or buildings on continuous property except Railroad right of way etc not separated by a public highway Issued October 3 2011 Effective Date October 4 2011 By James D Mitchell Vice President One Armstrong Place Butler Pennsylvania 16001 Armstrong Telecommunications Inc Tariff F C C No 1 Original Page 60 INTERSTATE DOMESTIC ACCESS SERVICES Section 2 GENERAL REGULATIONS cont d 2 17 Definitions cont d Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge A Federally mandated per line charge paid by Interexchange Carriers to incumbent Local Exchange Companies for each presubscribed line Release Message The term Release Message denotes an SS7 message sent in either direction to indicate that a specific circuit is being released Remote Switching Modules Systems The term Remote Switching Modules Systems denotes small remotely controlled electronic end office switches which obtain their call processing capability from an electronic Host Central Office The Remote Switching Modules Systems cannot accommodate direct trunks to an IXC Return Loss The term Return Loss denotes a measure of the similarity between the two 2 im

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