Common use of Usage Measurement Clause in Contracts

Usage Measurement. 7.1 Each Party shall calculate terminating interconnection minutes of use based on standard Automatic Message Accounting (“AMA”) recordings made within each Party’s network, these recordings being necessary for each Party to generate bills to the other Party. 7.2 Measurement of minutes of use over local interconnection trunk groups shall be in actual conversation seconds. The total conversation seconds over each individual local interconnection trunk group will be totaled for the entire monthly ▇▇▇▇ period and then rounded to the next whole minute. For billing purposes and to the extent technically feasible, each Party shall pass calling party number (“CPN”) information on each call carried over the traffic exchange trunks at such time as the originating switch is equipped for SS7 and from all switches no later than December 31, 1998. If it is not technically feasible for a Party to pass CPN on each call carried over the traffic exchange trunks, such Party shall pass other number information that is associated with the same Rate Center as the CPN for the call. At such time as either Party has the ability, as the Party receiving the traffic, to use such CPN information to classify on an automated basis traffic delivered by the other Party as either Local Traffic or toll traffic, such receiving Party shall ▇▇▇▇ the originating Party the Local Traffic termination rates, intrastate exchange access rates, intrastate/interstate transit traffic rates, or interstate exchange access rates applicable to each minute of traffic for which CPN is passed, as provided in Attachment 1 and applicable tariffs.