Market Equivalent Capacity

Market Equivalent Capacity. Shall mean an amount of transmission capacity (as measured in channels, wavelengths or other appropriate measures) equal to (a) with respect to two-fiber configurations, 25% or (b) with respect to four-fiber configurations, 12.5%, in each case of the total transmission capacity which it is commercially practical to sustain over two or four optic fibers so configured, respectively, utilizing equipment at that time in use in the Relevant Area (as defined below) by at least two of the ten largest... interexchange carriers in the United States. In Routes between two of the thirty largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States ("Large MSAs"), the "Relevant Area" shall be any route in the United States; for Routes which do not service a Large MSA, the Relevant Area shall mean a route in the same general geographical area as the Route for which the Market Equivalent Capacity is to be measured. View More