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Jean Jewell, Secretary
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Re: Case No. QWE-T-1 1-06
Application for Approval of Amendment to the Interconnection Agreement
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Dear Ms. Jewell:
Enclosed for filing with this Commission on behalf of Qwest Corporation dlb/a CenturyLink
QC is an original and three (3) copies of the Application for Approval of Amendment to the
Interconnection Agreement. CenturyLink respectfully requests that this matter be placed on
the Commission Decision Meeting Agenda for expedited approval.
Please contact me if you have any questions concerning the enclosed. Thank you for your
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Lisa A. Anderl (WSBA# 13236)
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IDAHO PUB' JTIUTtES COMMiSC
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
APPLICATION OF QWEST CASE NO.: QWE-T-11-06
CORPORATION FOR APPROVAL OF
AN INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF
PURSUANT TO 47 U.S.C. §252(e) AMENDMENT TO THE
INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT
Qwest Corporation dlbla CenturyLink ("CenturyLink") hereby files this Application for
Approval of Amendment to the Interconnection Agreement ("Amendment"), which was
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approved by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission on June 28, 2011 (the "Agreement"). The
Amendment with Broadvox-CLEC, LLC ("Broadvox") is submitted herewith.
This Amendment was reached through voluntary negotiations without resort to mediation
or arbitration and is submitted for approval pursuant to Section 252(e) of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "Act").
Section 252(e)(2) of the Act directs that a state Commission may reject an amendment
reached through voluntary negotiations only if the Commission finds that: the amendment (or
portion(s) thereof) discriminates against a telecommunications carrier not a party to this
agreement; or the implementation of such an amendment (or portion) is not consistent with the
public interest, convenience and necessity.
CenturyLink respectfully submits this Amendment provides no basis for either of these
findings, and, therefore requests that the Commission approve this Amendment expeditiously.
This Amendment is consistent with the public interest as identified in the pro-competitive
policies of the State of Idaho, the Commission, the United States Congress, and the Federal
Communications Commission. Expeditious approval of this Amendment will enable Broadvox
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• to interconnect with CenturyLink facilities and to provide customers with increased choices
among local telecommunications services.
CenturyLink further requests that the Commission approve this Amendment without a
hearing. Because this Amendment was reached through voluntary negotiations, it does not raise
issues requiring a hearing and does not concern other parties not a party to the negotiations.
Expeditious approval would further thejublic interest.
Respectfully submitted this day of September, 2012.
CenturyLink (
Lisa A. Anderl
Attorney for Qwest
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on this day of September, 2012, I served the foregoing
APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT TO THE INTERCONNECTION
AGREEMENT upon all parties of record in this matter as follows:
Jean Jewell, Secretary Hand Delivery
Idaho Public Utilities Commission U. S. Mail
472 West Washington Street X Overnight Delivery
P.O. Box 83720 Facsimile
Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 Email
[e-mail]
Kyle V. Bertrand Hand Delivery
Broadvox-CLEC, LLC U. S. Mail
1228 Euclid Avenue Suite 390 X Overnight Delivery
Cleveland OH 44115 Facsimile
Email
Leslie Johnson, Legal Assistant
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BROAD VOX-CLEC, LLC ICC VOW AMENDMENT
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ICC VoIP Amendment
to the Interconnection Agreement between
Qwest Corporation dba CenturyLink QC
and
Broadvox-CLEC, LLC
for the State of Idaho
This Amendment ("Amendment") is to the Interconnection Agreement between Qwest
Corporation dba CenturyLink QC ("CenturyLink"), a Colorado corporation, and Broadvox-CLEC,
LLC ("CLEC"), an Ohio limited liability company (collectively, the "Parties").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Parties entered into an Interconnection Agreement ("Agreement"), for service in
the State of Idaho, that was approved by the Commission in 2011; and
WHEREAS, the Federal Communications Commission in Docket No. 01-92, In the Matter of
Developing a Unified Intercarrier Compensation Regime, issued an order that affects the Parties
rights and obligations with respect to the exchange of VoIP traffic between CLEC providers and
LECs in addition to revised call signaling rules effective December 29, 2011 ("FCC Order" or
"Order"); and
WHEREAS, the Parties agree to amend the Agreement in response to the FCC Order with the
terms and conditions contained herein.
. AGREEMENT
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual terms, covenants and conditions contained
in this Amendment and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which is hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
Amendment Terms
The Agreement is hereby amended by replacing and adding terms, conditions, and rates as set
forth in Attachment 1 and Exhibits A, H and J, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this
reference. The provisions included in Attachment I are intended to supersede and replace the
same numbered provisions in the Agreement and be added to the Agreement to the extent that
the applicable numbered provision is not currently in the Agreement
By signature on this Amendment, CLEC has elected to modify existing contract terms in order to
implement the applicable provisions of the above mentioned Order.
Effective Date
This Amendment shall be deemed effective upon Commission approval; however, pursuant to
the Parties Agreement change in law language, the Parties agree to implement the provisions of
this Amendment as of December 29, 2011.
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Further Amendments
Except as modified herein, the provisions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
The provisions of this Amendment, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be
amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions
of this Amendment may not be given without the written consent thereto by both Parties'
authorized representative. No waiver by any Party of any default, misrepresentation, or breach
of warranty or covenant hereunder, whether intentional or not, will be deemed to extend to any
prior or subsequent default, misrepresentation, or breach of warranty or covenant hereunder or
affect in any way any rights arising by virtue of any prior or subsequent such occurrence.
Entire Agreement
The Agreement as amended (including the documents referred to herein) constitutes the full
and entire understanding and agreement between the Parties with regard to the subjects of the
Agreement as amended and supersedes any prior understandings, agreements, or
representations by or between the Parties, written or oral, to the extent they relate in any way to
the subjects of the Agreement as amended.
The Parties intending to be legally bound have executed this Amendment as of the dates set
forth below, which may be in multiple counterparts, each of which is deemed an original, but all
of which shall constitute one and the same instrument.
Broadvox-CLEC, LLC Qwest Corporation dba CenturyLink QC
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Kyle V. Bertrand
Name Printed/Typed
VP - Network Planning & Regulatory
Title
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Date
L. T. Christensen
Name Printed/Typed
Director - Wholesale Contracts
Title
8/28/2012
Date
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. ATTACHMENT I
ICC Voice over Internet Protocol (V0IP) Amendment
Notwithstanding anything set forth in the Agreement to the contrary, the following terms and
provisions shall govern the intercarrier compensation between the Parties for the exchange of
VoIP-PSTN Traffic,
Section 4.0 - DEFINITIONS
"End User Customer" means a third party Customer that subscribes to a Telecommunications
or Information Service provided by either of the Parties or by another Carrier or by two (2) or
more Carriers, lSPs, or Interconnected VolP providers.
"VoIP-PSTN Traffic" includes any traffic previously referred to in the Agreement as "VoIP" or
"VoIP Traffic" or "IP Enabled Voice Traffic", and is defined as traffic which is exchanged over
PSTN facilities in Time Division Multiplexing ("TDM") format that originates and/or terminates in
Internet Protocol ("IP") format, as determined in the Order, and terminates to a Party's End User
Customer.
"Local VolP-PSTN Traffic" is VolP-PSTN Traffic that is Exchange Service or Extended Area
Service (EAS)/Local Traffic.
"Toll VoIP-PSTN Traffic" is VoIP-PSTN Traffic that is not Exchange Service or Extended Area
Service (EAS)/Local Traffic..
Section 7.0 - INTERCONNECTION
7.2 Exchange of Traffic
7.2.1.3 Local VolP-PSTN Traffic and Toll VolP-PSTN Traffic may be exchanged under
this Agreement.
7.2.1.3.1 Switched Access Traffic, including but not limited to InterLATA Traffic,
other than Toll VolP-PSTN Traffic or Jointly Provided Switched Access Traffic, may not
be exchanged under this Agreement. In the event either Party routes InterLATA Traffic
to the other Party in violation of this section, the other Party shall be entitled to recover
compensation for such traffic at rate applicable to such traffic at the time it was routed.
A Party routing such traffic will cease routing such traffic. Any such action will be taken
in accordance with the Dispute Resolution provision of this Agreement.
7.3 Intercarrier Compensation
7.3.8 Signaling Parameters: CenturyLink and CLEC are required to provide each other the
proper signaling information (e.g., originating Calling Party Number (CPN), Charge Number
(ChN) and called party number) as required by Applicable Law and further clarified by the FCC
Order in CC Docket No. 01-92 to enable each Party to issue bills in a complete and timely
fashion. All CCS signaling parameters will be provided unchanged including CPN and calling
party category. All privacy indicators will be honored. Unless the FCC has approved a waiver
petition regarding specific technical restrictions, the ChN is to be passed unaltered in SS7
signaling fields where it is different than CPN and ChN must not be populated with a number
• associated with an intermediate switch, platform, or gateway, or other number that designates
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anything other than an End User Customer's charge number. Where SS7 connections exist,
each Party shall pass all CCS signaling parameters, where available, on each call carried over
Interconnection trunks. All EAS/Local and IntraLATA Toll calls exchanged without ChN and/or
CPN information will be billed as either EASILocaI Traffic or IntraLATA Toll Traffic in direct
proportion to the minutes of use (MOU) of calls exchanged with ChN and/or CPN information for
the preceding quarter when the calls traverse a Switched Access Feature Group D trunk group.
If either Party fails to provide valid originating information such traffic will be billed as Intrastate
Switched Access when the calls traverse an interconnection trunk. Traffic sent to the other
Party on its interconnection trunks without ChN and/or CPN (valid originating information) will be
handled in the following manner. The transit provider will be responsible for only its portion of
this traffic, which will not exceed more than five percent (5%) of the total Exchange Service
(EAS/Local) and IntraLATA LEC Toll traffic delivered to the other Party. The Switch owner will
provide to the other Party, upon request, information to demonstrate that Party's portion of no-
CPN/ChN traffic does not exceed five percent (5%) of the total traffic delivered. The Parties will
coordinate and exchange data as necessary to determine the cause of the CPN/ChN failure and
to assist its correction.
7.3.9 VoIP-PSTN Traffic

7.3.9.1 Local VoIP-PSTN Traffic

7.3.9.1.1 CLEC and CenturyLink will exchange Local VolP-PSTN Traffic at the rate
selection detailed in Exhibit J and such Local VoIP-PSTN Traffic will be identified as
such by using the originating and terminating call detail information of each call unless
the Parties specifically amend this agreement to agree otherwise. This call jurisdiction
method described herein for VoIP-PSTN Traffic is intended by the Parties as a proxy to
determine the jurisdiction of a call (call detail is intended to determine the geographic
location of the end points of a VoIP-PSTN call or a proxy for the end points of such a
call, although the Parties acknowledge that there may be some circumstances where the
actual geographic end points of such calls may be difficult or impossible to determine).
At any time during the term of this Agreement, CLEC and CenturyLink may agree in an
amendment consistent with this Agreement on alternate methods to establish call
jurisdiction based on regulatory or technological evolution. The Parties agree that it is in
the best interest of both Parties to work together in an effort to continue to improve the
accuracy of jurisdictional data and such efforts shall not be reasonably withheld by either
Party.

7.3.9.2 Toll VoIP-PSTN Traffic

7.3.9.2.1 CLEC and CenturyLink will exchange Toll VoIP-PSTN Traffic at each
Party's interstate access rates and such Toll VolP-PSTN Traffic will be identified as
InterLATA Traffic or IntraLATA Toll Traffic by using the originating and terminating call
detail information of each call unless the Parties specifically agree otherwise. This call
jurisdiction method described herein for VoIP-PSTN Traffic is intended by the Parties as
a proxy to determine the jurisdiction of a call (call detail is intended to determine the
geographic location of the end points of a VoIP-PSTN call or a proxy for the end points
of such a call, although the Parties acknowledge that there may be some circumstances
where the actual geographic end points of a VoIP-PSTN call may be difficult or
impossible to determine). At any time during the term of this Agreement, CLEC and
CenturyLink may agree in an amendment consistent with this Agreement on alternate
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methods to establish call jurisdiction based on regulatory or technological evolution. The
Parties agree that it is in the best interest of both Parties to work together in an effort to
continue to improve the accuracy of jurisdictional data and such efforts shall not be
reasonably withheld by either Party.
7.3.9.2.1.1 InterLATA Traffic which is Toll VoIP-PSTN Traffic will be
exchanged at each Party's interstate access tariff rates. Any Transit Traffic
which is both InterLATA and Toll VoIP-PSTN will be exchanged at each Party's
interstate switched access service rates. InterLATA Traffic which is not Toll
VoIP-PSTN Traffic shall be subject to 7.2.1.3.1.
7.3.9.2.1.2 IntraLATA Toll Traffic which is Toll VolP-PSTN Traffic will be
exchanged at each Party's interstate access tariff rates. Both Parties will use the
Local Interconnection Service Percent VoIP Usage (LIS-PVU) factor in Exhibit A
to determine the amount of IntraLATA Toll Traffic that shall be deemed as Toll
VoIP-PSTN Traffic. The Parties will utilize a combination of the LIS PVU5
provided both by CenturyLink and CLEC in making the billing adjustments
discussed in Section 7.3.9.2.1.4. The Parties shall also apply the LIS-PVU factor
to any Transit Traffic which is IntraLATA Toll Traffic, which shall be exchanged at
interstate switched access tariff rate. The LIS-PVU factor may be updated by a
further Amendment mutually negotiated by the Parties
7.3.9.2.1.2.1 The LIS-PVU factor shall be the percentage of total
terminating IntraLATA Toll Traffic which is Toll VolP-PSTN Traffic based
on the traffic originating or terminating on the reporting Party's network in
Internet Protocol, that in the absence of such LIS-PVU, would be billed at
intrastate access rates. The LIS-PVU factor shall be based on
information such as traffic studies, actual call detail, or other relevant and
verifiable information which will be exchanged by the Parties, or any other
mutually agreed upon proxy consistent with the FCC's rules and orders.
CenturyLink will not terminate any traffic to CLEC that originates on
CenturyLink's network in Internet Protocol.
7.3.9.2.1.3 The portion of LIS facilities used for Toll VoIP-PSTN Traffic will be
billed at CenturyLink's interstate access tariff rates after the application of
Relative Use Factor. CenturyLink will use the Local Interconnection Service
Facilities Percent VoIP Usage (LIS-Facility-PVU) factor in Exhibit A to determine
the portion of Entrance Facility, Direct Trunk Transport, and MUX that shall be
deemed the portion of the facility used to carry Toll Vol P-PSTN Traffic.
7.3.9.2.1.3.1 The LIS-Facility-PVU factor shall be the percentage of
the total traffic CLEC routes to CenturyLink for termination which is Toll
VolP-PSTN Traffic. The CLEC shall determine their Toll VoIP-PSTN
Traffic based on information such as traffic studies, actual call detail, or
other relevant and verifiable information which the Parties will exchange.
CenturyLink will not terminate any traffic to CLEC that originates on
CenturyLink's network in Internet Protocol.
7.3.9.2.1.4 CenturyLink and CLE
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automated basis. These adjustments shall not be treated as billing errors under
PID/PAP.
7.3.9.2.1.5 Any factors established by the Parties for the previous sections of
7.3.9.2 shall be based on the particular characteristics of the traffic exchanged
within the State between CLEC and CenturyLink and shall not be subject to
adoption by anyone not a Party to this Agreement, or apply to any other service
areas.
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Exhibit A
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I 7.12 1Toff VoIP-PSTN Traffic
- 712.1 Toll V0IP-PSTN Traffic - - - Interstate
Access Tariff
Interstate
Access Tariff
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Broadvox __________
7.12.2 Local Interconnection Service VOIP Percent of IntraLATA Usage (LIS-PVU) - - [92% 92% 3 3
7.12.3 Local Interconnection Service VOIP Percent of Facilities (LIS-Facility-PVU) L 24% 24% 3 .
CenturyLink
7.12.3 Local Interconnection Service VOIP Percent of lntraLATA Usage (LIS-PVU) 0% 0% 3 3 -
7.12.4 Local Interconnection Service VOIP Percent of Facilities (LIS-Facility-PVU) I 0% 0% 3 3 -
NOTES:
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EXHIBIT H
Calculation of the Relative Use Factor (RUF)
Minutes that are CenturvLink's responsibility (Al;
• All EAS/Local 251(b)(5) Minutes of Use (MOU) that CenturyLink sends to CLEC
• All Local V0IP PSTN traffic that CenturyLink sends to CLEC
• All CenturyLink Exchange Access MOU that CenturyLink sends to CLEC
• EAS/Local 251 (b)(5) traffic that transits CenturyLink network and is terminated to
CLEC, for which CenturyLink receives compensation from the originating Carrier for
performing the local transiting function
• All Toll VoIP PSTN Traffic that CenturyLink sends to CLEC
• All IntraLATA transit MOU that CenturyLink sends to CLEC
• All ISP-bound and FX MOU that CLEC sends to CenturyLink
Minutes that are CLEC's responsibility (B):
• All EAS/Local 251(b)(5) MOU that CLEC sends to CenturyLink
• All Local VoIP PSTN Traffic that CLEC sends to CenturyLink
• All Exchange Access MOU that CLEC sends to CenturyLink
• All EAS/Local 251 (b)(5) traffic that CLEC sends to CenturyLink for termination on
another Carrier's network
• All Toll VolP PSTN Traffic that CLEC sends to CenturyLink
fl • All IntraLATA transit MOU that CLEC sends to CenturyLink
• All Jointly Provided Switched Access (unless joint NECA 4 billing percentages have
been filed) that CenturyLink sends to CLEC and that CLEC sends to CenturyLink
.. All ISP-bound and VN)(X MOU that CenturyLink sends to CLEC
• All VN)(X MOU that transits CenturyLink network and is terminated to CLEC
The mathematical equation for RUF is as follows:
CenturyLink (A) I (A+B) Rounded to nearest whole
percentage
CLEC (B) I (A+B) Rounded to nearest whole percentage
Data used for the calculation will be the average of the most recent three (3) months'
usage determined not to be an anomaly.
Exhibit H -Qwest Eleven State Template Version 1.8, August 22, 2008
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Qwest All States Except Colorado - Minnesota and Washington
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Exhibit J
Election of Reciprocal Compensation Option
Pursuant to the election in this Exhibit J of this Agreement, the Parties agree to exchange certain
categories of traffic, as described in Section 7.3, at the following rates:
CLEC must select either 1. OR 2.
1.The rates applicable to ISP-Bound traffic, Exchange Service, Extended Area Service
(EAS)/Local Traffic, and Local- VoIP-PSTN Traffic between Qwest and CLEC shall be the same
as the rates established for ISP-Bound traffic pursuant to Exhibit A, Section 7.7. Such rate for
ISP-Bound traffic will apply to such traffic in lieu of End Office Call Termination rates, and
Tandem Switched Transport rates.
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2.Compensation rate for §251(b)(5) Traffic shall be as established by the Commission pursuant
to Exhibit A, Section 7.6, the rates as appropriate.
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