N.M. Admin. Code § 17.11.18.8 - INTERCONNECTION OF LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS
All LECs shall interconnect directly or indirectly with the facilities and equipment of other LECs for the seamless provision of local exchange service.
A. Interconnection
to ILEC networks. Each ILEC shall, upon request, allow any other LEC to
interconnect with its network for the purpose of providing local exchange and
exchange access services. Rates, terms and conditions for interconnection shall
be just, reasonable, nondiscriminatory and in accordance with the requirements
of this rule.
B. Quality of
interconnection. The interconnection provided by the ILEC must be at least
equal in quality to that provided by the ILEC to itself or any subsidiary,
affiliate, or other party to which the ILEC provides interconnection.
C. Points of interconnection.
(1) An ILEC shall allow any other LEC to
interconnect to its network at any technically feasible point.
(2) The ILEC and the requesting LEC shall
negotiate meet points of interconnection. Each party shall be responsible for
the costs of constructing facilities to the meet point and neither party may
impose a meet point that would require one party to incur significantly greater
construction costs to build to the meet point than the other party.
(3) Each LEC shall construct and maintain its
facilities at the point of interconnection in accordance with accepted
engineering standards and practices in the exchange carrier industry.
(4) Each terminating LEC will make available
to each originating LEC all technical references to documents issued by
industry standards bodies or equipment manufacturers that define the
engineering specifications necessary for the originating LEC's equipment to
interface with the terminating LEC's interconnection facilities.
D. Joint facilities construction
and use. LECs may jointly construct interconnection facilities and apportion
the cost and expense between any joint users of those facilities.
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