Xxxx-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 Xxxx-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 Xxxx-and-Keep Arrangement described in this Section.
Xxxx-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 60.7. 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.
Xxxx-and-Keep applies to 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.
Xxxx-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 Xxxx-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.
Xxxx-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 Xxxx-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 sixty (6o) percent of the Parties’ total terminated minutes for Local Traffic, either Party may notify the other, as described in Section 8.1 of this Agreement, that the existing contract will be terminated at the end of the initial term of one (1) year to be replaced with a new Agreement that will provide the terms for mutual compensation. Nothing in this Section 5.1 shall be interpreted to allow either Party to aggregate traffic other than local Traffic for the purpose of compensation under the Xxxx-and-keep Arrangement described in this Section 5.1.
Xxxx-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.
Xxxx-and-Keep applies to traffic between a CLEC End Office and an Embarq Tandem or End Office and is limited to twenty-four (24) DSO trunks (one-way from CLEC to Embarq).
Xxxx-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 Xxxx-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 Xxxx-and-Keep Arrangement described in this Section 3.2.1, except as set forth in Section 3.1 above.
Xxxx-and-Keep applies to Local Traffic between a CLEC end office and a Sprint tandem and is limited to 24 DSO trunks (one-way from CLEC to Sprint).
Xxxx-and-Keep. 1 The charges for Local Traffic Termination set out in this Section A.I, “Local Traffic Termination,” are adopted pursuant to Paragraphs 89 through 94 of the FCC’s Order on Remand and Report and Order, In the Matter of Implementation of the Local Competition Provisions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Intercarrier Compensation for ISP-Bound Traffic, FCC 01-131, CC Docket Nos. 96-98 and 99-68, 16 FCC Rcd 9151 (4/18/01). The dates shown in this schedule are not intended to modify the term of the Agreement or to affect either Party’s right to exercise any right of termination it may have under the Agreement.
