Bill-and-Keep. The Parties shall assume that Local Traffic originated by or terminating to the Parties’ Customers is roughly balanced between the Parties unless traffic studies indicate otherwise. Accordingly, the Parties agree to use a Bill-and-Keep Arrangement with respect to termination of Local Traffic only. Either Party may request, pursuant to Article II, Section 5.1.1, that a traffic study be performed no more frequently than once a quarter. Should such traffic study indicate, in the aggregate, that either Party is terminating more than sixty (60) percent of the Parties' total terminated minutes for Local Traffic, either Party may notify the other that mutual compensation will commence on a going forward basis pursuant to the rates set forth in Appendix A and following such notice it shall begin and continue for the duration of the Term of this Agreement unless otherwise agreed. Nothing in Section 5.4 shall be interpreted to (i) change compensation set forth in this Agreement for traffic or services other than Local Traffic, including but not limited to internetwork facilities, access traffic or wireless traffic, or (ii) allow either Party to aggregate traffic other than Local Traffic for the purpose of compensation under the Bill-and-Keep Arrangement described in this Section.
Bill-and-Keep. The Parties shall assume that Local Traffic originated by or terminating to the Parties’ end-user customers is roughly balanced between the parties unless traffic studies indicate otherwise. Accordingly, the Parties agree to use a Bill-and-Keep Arrangement with respect to termination of Local Traffic only. Either Party may initiate a traffic study no more frequently than once a quarter. Such traffic study shall examine all Local Traffic excluding Local Traffic that is also Information Access Traffic. Should such traffic study indicate, in the aggregate, that either Party is terminating more than 60 percent of the Parties’ total terminated minutes for Local Traffic excluding Local Traffic that is also Information Access Traffic, either Party may notify the other in writing that mutual compensation will commence for such Local Traffic, excluding Local Traffic that is also Information Access Traffic, pursuant to the rates set forth in Appendix A of this Agreement and following such notice it shall begin and continue for the duration of the Term of this Agreement unless otherwise agreed.
Bill-and-Keep does not apply to Local Traffic or ISP-Bound Traffic originated by CLEC or a third party, transiting Sprint’s network, and terminated by CLEC or a third party (i.e. Transit Traffic) in which case applicable transit charges will apply as set forth in Section 60.8. Sprint will not assume transport and termination liabilities on behalf of the calls originated by CLEC and terminated to a third party or originated by a third party and terminated by CLEC.
Bill-and-Keep. The Parties shall assume that Local Traffic is roughly balanced between the parties unless traffic studies indicate otherwise. Accordingly, the Parties agree to use a Bill-and-Keep Arrangement with respect to termination of Local Traffic only. Either Party may request that a traffic study be performed no more frequently than once a quarter. Should such traffic study indicate, in the aggregate, that either Party is terminating more than 60 percent of the Parties' total terminated minutes for Local Traffic, either Party may notify the other that mutual compensation will commence pursuant to the rates set forth in Appendix C of this Agreement and following such notice it shall begin and continue for the duration of the Term of this Agreement unless otherwise agreed. Nothing in this Section 3.3.2 shall be interpreted to (i) change compensation set forth in this Agreement for traffic or services other than Local Traffic, including but not limited to internetwork facilities, access traffic or wireless traffic, or (ii) allow either Party to aggregate traffic other than Local Traffic for the purpose of compensation under the Bill-and- Keep Arrangement described in this Section 3.3.2, except as set forth in Section 3.1 above.
Bill-and-Keep applies to Local and ISP-Bound Traffic between a CLEC end office and the Physical POI. CLEC is responsible for compensating Sprint for any necessary transport between virtual and physical POIs.
Bill-and-Keep. The Parties shall assume that Local Traffic is roughly balanced between the Parties for the term of this contract. Accordingly, the Parties agree to use a Bill-and-Keep Arrangement with respect to termination of Local Traffic only. Nothing in this Section 3.2.1 shall be interpreted to (i) change compensation set forth in this Agreement for traffic or services other than Local Traffic, including but not limited to internetwork facilities, access traffic or wireless traffic, or (ii) allow either Party to aggregate traffic other than Local Traffic for the purpose of compensation under the Bill-and-Keep Arrangement described in this Section 3.2.1, except as set forth in Section 3.1 above.
Bill-and-Keep. The Parties shall assume that Local Traffic originated by or terminating to the Parties’ end-user customers is roughly balanced between the parties unless traffic studies indicate otherwise. Accordingly, the Parties agree to use a Bill-and-Keep Arrangement with respect to termination of Local Traffic only. Either Party may request that a traffic study be performed no more frequently than once a quarter. Should such traffic study indicate, in the aggregate, that either Party is terminating more than 60 percent of the Parties' total terminated minutes for Local Traffic, either Party may notify the other that mutual compensation will commence pursuant to the rates set forth in Appendix A of this Agreement and following such notice it shall begin and continue for the duration of the Term of this Agreement unless otherwise agreed.
Bill-and-Keep. Arrangement - a compensation arrangement whereby the Parties do not render bills to each other for the termination of Local Traffic specified in this Agreement and whereby the Parties terminate local exchange traffic originating from end-users served by the networks of the other Party without explicit charging among or between said carriers for such traffic exchange.
Bill-and-Keep. The Parties shall assume that Local Traffic originated by or terminating to the Parties’ end-user customers is roughly balanced between the parties unless traffic studies indicate otherwise. Accordingly, the Parties agree to use a Bill-and-Keep Arrangement with respect to termination of Local Traffic only. Either Party may request that a traffic study be performed no more frequently than once a quarter. Should such traffic study indicate, in the aggregate, that either Arrangement described in this Section 3.2.2, except as set forth in Section 3.1 above.
Bill-and-Keep. II-2 1.11.1 Bill-and-Keep Arrangement .................................................................................. II-2 1.12 Bona Fide Request (BFR) ..................................................................................... II-2 1.13 Business Day.......................................................................................................... II-2 1.14
