This interconnection agreement template has 7 pages and is a MS Word file type listed under our legal agreements documents.
Sample of our interconnection agreement template:
INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT This Interconnection Agreement (the "Agreement") is effective [DATE], BETWEEN: [PARTY A NAME], ("Party A"), an individual with his main address located at OR a company organized and existing under the laws of the [State/Province] of [STATE/PROVINCE], with its head office located at: [COMPLETE ADDRESS] AND: [PARTY B NAME], ("Party B"), an individual with his main address located at OR a company organized and existing under the laws of the [State/Province] of [STATE/PROVINCE], with its head office located at: [COMPLETE ADDRESS] Collectively, both Party A and Party B shall be referred to as the "Parties." WHEREAS, the Parties want to interconnect their networks directly via technically feasible points of Interconnection between their networks, or indirectly via third-party providers, to provide Telecommunications Services to their respective Customers; WHEREAS, the Parties are entering into this Agreement to set forth the respective obligations of the Parties and the terms and conditions under which the Parties will interconnect their networks as set forth herein. NOW, THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows: SCOPE For the purposes of this Agreement, the Parties agree to interconnect their networks and exchange telecommunication traffic. Section 1 describes the architecture for direct Interconnection of the Parties' facilities and equipment over which the Parties shall configure the Interconnection: [SPECIFY THE INTERCONNECTION CONFIGURATION] TRANSMISSION AND ROUTING OF TELEPHONE EXCHANGE SERVICE TRAFFIC Section 2 prescribes parameters of the Interconnections specified for the transmission and routing of local traffic and traffic between the Parties' respective Customers. Signaling. Each Party will provide the other Party with direct or indirect access to its databases and associated signaling necessary for the routing and completion of the other. Grades of Service. Where direct Interconnection is used, the Parties shall initially engineer and shall jointly engineer and maintain all trunk groups consistent with the Joint Implementation and Grooming Process. Each Party reserves the right to measure and audit all traffic, up to a maximum of one audit per 12-month period, to ensure that proper rates are being applied appropriately, provided, however, that either Party shall have the right to conduct additional audit(s) if the preceding audit disclosed material errors or discrepancies. Each Party agrees to provide the necessary traffic data or permit the other Party's recording equipment to be installed for sampling purposes in conjunction with any such audit. NETWORK MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT The Parties will work cooperatively to install and maintain a reliable network. Both Parties will exchange appropriate information (e.g., maintenance contact numbers, escalation procedures, network information, information required to comply with law enforcement and other security agencies of the government) to achieve this desired reliability. In addition, the Parties will work cooperatively to apply sound network management principles to alleviate or to prevent congestion. In the event of an outage or trouble in any arrangement, facility, or service being provided by a Party hereunder (the "Providing Party"), the Providing Party will follow procedures for isolating and clearing the outage or trouble that are no less favorable than those that apply to comparable arrangements, facilities, or services being provided by the Providing Party to any other carrier whose network is connected to that of the Providing Party. Parties may agree to modify these procedures from time to time, based on their experience with comparable Interconnection arrangements with other carriers. DATABASE AND SIGNALING Each Party shall provide the other Party with access to databases and associated signaling necessary for call routing and completion, including but not limited to calling name information as required and any other necessary databases in accordance with existing Tariffs and/or agreements with other unaffiliated carriers. The Parties will provide signaling to one another in all direct or indirect Interconnection trunking arrangements. The Parties will cooperate on the exchange of TCAP messages to facilitate interoperability of all CCS-based features and services to the extent each Party offers such features and functions to its Customers. All signaling parameters will be provided upon request (where such parameters are available and support signaling features and functions deployed within both Parties' networks), including called party number, calling party number, calling party category, and charge number. COORDINATION WITH TARIFF TERMS Where explicitly noted in this Agreement, the Parties acknowledge that some of the services, facilities, and arrangements described herein are or will be available under and subject to the terms of the federal or state Tariffs of the other Party applicable to such services, facilities, and arrangements. To the extent a Tariff of the Providing Party applies to any service, facility, and arrangement described herein, the Parties agree as follows: Those rates and charges for services, facilities, and arrangements that reference a rate contained in an existing Tariff of the Providing Party, shall conform with those contained in the then-prevailing Tariff and vary in accordance with any changes that may be made to the Tariff rates and charges after the Effective Date. TERM AND TERMINATION Term. Except as otherwise provided, as identified and agreed upon by the Parties, an initial term will be [NUMBER OF MONTHS] months from the Effective Date (the "Term"). Termination. The present Agreement shall be automatically terminated at the expiration of the period mentioned in Clause 6.1 of the present Agreement, unless the Agreement is renewed at the end of the mentioned term. In the event that either Party defaults in the due performance of its obligations hereunder or in the event that any representation by either of them proves to be false or incorrect, and such default or breach is not cured within thirty (30) days of written notice thereof, then the Party giving such notice may elect to terminate this Agreement by final written notice to the defaulting Party. However, both Parties shall have the right to terminate the present Agreement by providing each other with a prior written notice of 30 days. NO AGENCY Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute or be deemed to constitute a partnership or joint venture between the Parties hereto or constitute or be deemed to constitute any Party as the agent or employee of the other Party for any purpose whatsoever, and neither Party shall have authority or power to bind the other or to contract in the name of, or create a liability against, the other in any way or for any purpose. CONFIDENTIALITY The term "Confidential Information" as used herein, in the case of documentary information, shall include only that documentary information which is clearly marked as proprietary (or confidential) at the time when it is given to the receiving Party. "Confidential Information" which is originally orally disclosed shall include only that information which is identified as being proprietary or confidential at the time of disclosure and confirmed as confidential by written communication sent within a reasonably prompt period of time after it is disclosed to the receiving Party. Each Party shall keep all of the other Party's Proprietary Information confidential in the same manner it holds its own Proprietary Information confidential (which in all cases shall be no less than reasonable) and shall use the other Party's Proprietary Information only for performing the covenants contained in this Agreement
