Open Product/Process CR 5527214 Detail |
| Title: Legacy CR Utilization of Stranded DS0 Terminations | ||||||
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| 5527214 |
Withdrawn 5/11/2001 |
Ordering, Provisioning | ||||
| Originator: Powers, Lynne |
| Originator Company Name: Eschelon |
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Description Of Change |
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Qwest should develop a process to allow CLECs to reclaim stranded DS0 terminations. Qwest previously permitted CLECs to purchase DSO terminations in less than 100 block increments. Under this policy, Qwest would nonetheless deliver an entire 100 pair cable block to the CLEC and terminate all 100 pair at the ICDF. However, only the pairs ordered by CLECs were activated in TIRKS. Qwest then changed its policy and began requiring CLECs to purchase terminations only in 100 block increments. Once this policy was in effect, Qwest did not continue numbering terminations in sequence. For instance, at one site, Eshelon had ordered 549 terminations under the initial policy. Qwest provided Eschelon with 600 terminations but only activated 549 of the terminations. When Eschelon ordered additional terminations to that site after the policy change, Qwest provided Eschelon with a separate 100 termination block beginning at 600, thereby stranding the terminations between 550 and 600 that had already been wired. Eschelon asked that Qwest provide a process by which CLECs can order, pay for and use the stranded DS0 terminations that were delivered and terminated by Qwest but not ordered by the CLEC. Qwest (through Keith Rice) informed Eschelon that Qwest has no product offering to manage the process of filling in the DS0 termination holes and will not be developing one in the foreseeable future. Qwest should provide CLECs with a process to use the unused but connected DS0 terminations to ensure efficient use of the network. The connections are wired and ready to go. Qwest should accept payment for each unutilized pair and activate each pair in TIRKS. This would provide Qwest with additional revenue and enable the efficient use of both Qwest and CLEC networks. Please modify Qwest’s processes to enable CLECs to purchase and use the unused DS0 terminations that resulted from Qwest’s decision to fill orders out of sequence when it changed its policy to require CLECs to purchase DS0 terminations in 100 block increments. Please identify any rate Qwest would propose to charge
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| Date | Action | Description |
| 5/1/2001 | CR received from Jessica Johnson of Eschelon | |
| 5/1/2001 | Status changed to New - To be Validated | |
| 5/1/2001 | Status changed to New - To be Evaluated | |
| 5/1/2001 | Updated CR sent to Jessica Johnson, Lynne Powers, Karen Clauson and Janet Houston | |
| 5/11/2001 | Status changed to Canceled - Co-Provider | |
| 3/28/2002 | Posted this legacy CR to CMP Database. Completed CR Form had been posted to the Web as part of the "Change Request (CR) Archive - Change Requests statused as Inactive before August 1, 2001" |
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Information Current as of 1/11/2021