ALJ/KAJ/avs

Decision 01-09-054 September 20, 2001

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Application by Pacific Bell Telephone Company (U 1001 C) for Arbitration of an Interconnection Agreement with MCImetro Access Transmission Services, L.L.C. (U 5253 C) Pursuant to Section 252(b) of the Telecommunications Act
of 1996.

Application 01-01-010

(Filed January 8, 2001)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

OPINION APPROVING ARBITRATED INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT 2 2

1. Summary 2 2

2. Background 2 2

3. Negotiated Portions of Agreement 3 3

4. Arbitrated Portions of Agreement 4 4

A. Directory Assistance Listing Prices (Issue PRICE-31) 4 4

Pacific's Comments: 4 4

Discussion 6 6

B. OS and DA as UNEs (Issues DA-7, OS-1,
PRICE-22, PRICE-24, PRICE 25, PRICE-26, PRICE-31, PRICE-32) 10 10

Discussion 11 11

C. Resale Restrictions 13 13

Pacific's Position (Issues ALL-1, DEF-3, RES-2) 13 13

Discussion 14 14

D. Dark Fiber Prices (Issue Price-17) 16 16

Pacific's Position 16 16

Discussion 17 17

E. CNAM and LIDB as UNEs (Issue LIDB-1) 19 19

MCIm's Position 19 19

Discussion 19 19

F. Bulk Download of CNAM and LIDB databases (Issue LIDB-3) 20 20

MCIm's Position 20 20

Discussion 22 22

G. Unbundling of IDLC Loops 23 23

MCIm's Position 23 23

Discussion 24 24

5. Effective Date 25 25

6. Waiver of Public Review and Comment 26 26

Findings of Fact 26 26

Conclusions of Law 27 27

ORDER 28 28

OPINION APPROVING ARBITRATED
INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT

1. Summary

We affirm the results adopted in the Final Arbitrator's Report (FAR), as modified, and approve the resulting arbitrated Interconnection Agreement (ICA) between Pacific Bell Telephone Company (Pacific) and MCImetro Access Transmission Services, L.L.C. (MCIm). Parties shall each sign the adopted ICA, and file the signed ICA within five days of today. We congratulate the parties on their hard work and determination in negotiating their 500-page ICA, which includes general terms, interconnection, xDSL services, access to databases, access to unbundled network elements such as dark fiber and other provisions. The proceeding is closed.