Switched Access Service

Switched Access Service. A service providing access to the switched network of a Telecommunications Carrier for the purpose of originating or terminating interexchange interstate and intrastate telecommunications between MCI's interexchange carrier network and an MCI customer or subscriber placing or receiving an interexchange call. Switched Access Service does not include local exchange service. Switched Access Service includes (i) access service for traffic in which (A) the interexchange call originates and... terminates on the public switched telephone network, (B) both the called party and the calling party use ordinary customer premises equipment, and (C) no net protocol conversion occurs and 2 no enhanced functionality to either the calling or the called party is provided by the provider's use of IP technology, even-though the call may at some point in the transmission be converted to Internet Protocol ("IP"); (ii) (prospectively from the effective date of any such FCC orders) services that the FCC orders shall be subject to switched access charges; and (iii) interexchange access service for 8YY Traffic sent by US LEC to MCI regardless of whether US LEC provides the local dial tone to the end user calling the MCI 8YY customer provided that no carrier other than US LEC performs and actually assesses MCI a charge, for which MCI is liable, for an originating end office local switching function to a given call. View More