2.2.2 Operations

An ILEC must provide parity in operations between itself and a CLC, or a corporate affiliate (e.g., access to information, intervals for provisioning and installation of line sharing, performance of a line and station transfer, loop testing, trouble response time). ILECs must provide all available information in operational support systems (OSS) to CLCs during the pre-ordering and ordering processes that may be relevant to line sharing. CLCs, not ILECs, will determine what information is and is not useful or relevant. ILECs need not implement any electronic interfaces that do not currently exist, but must provide CLCs with access to new electronic interfaces as they become available, as soon as possible.

CLCs must affirmatively accept the line sharing UNE before the installation is considered complete. ILECs may charge for conditioning a line for line sharing, but may not charge for acceptance testing of the line.

ILECs must provide CLCs with 24 hour, seven day a week nondiscriminatory physical test access to the entire loop at either a test access point at the splitter, through a cross-connection to the CLC's collocation space, or through a standardized interface, for the purposes of loop testing, maintenance, and repair. An ILEC and CLC must seek to cooperate, but an ILEC may act without approval of the CLC to take whatever steps are necessary to restore failed voice service if cooperation is unsuccessful. The intervals for tie cable installation are subject to intervals for collocation. An ILEC may automatically convert the line sharing circuit to a full stand-alone UNE after reasonable notice to the CLC when the ILEC's voice service customer discontinues the ILEC voice service.