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of this Agreement will not endanger the health or safety of any persons including the Service Operator’s employees and the Service Operator’s End Users and in particular each respective Telecom ROC shall be responsible for the safe operation of that Telecom ROC’s Equipment.

12.2 Without limiting anything in Clause 13, the Service Operator shall take all necessary and prudent steps and comply with all statutory obligations to ensure that the implementation of this Agreement will not endanger the health or safety of any persons including a Telecom ROC’s employees and customers and in particular the Service Operator shall be responsible for the safe operation of the Service Operator’s Equipment.

13. STANDARDS

13.1 The Service Operator shall not Connect anything to a Telecom ROC’s Network at a Service Delivery Point and a Telecom ROC shall not Connect anything to the Service Operator’s Network at a Service Delivery Point except in accordance with the PTC Specifications. Each Telecom ROC shall co-operate with the Service Operator and the Service Operator shall co-operate with each Telecom ROC in a bona fide manner towards achieving compliance with the PTC Specifications in the Connection of the Service Operator’s Network to each Telecom ROC’s Network.

13.2 The Service Operator will certify to the Principal ROC at the beginning of the term of this Agreement that the Service Operator’s Network complies with the PTC Specifications. All ROCs acknowledge that the Service Operator’s qualified communications personnel are competent to certify compliance of the Service Operator’s Network with the PTC Specifications.

13.3 The Service Operator and each Telecom ROC shall be responsible for all maintenance, repair and testing of the Service Operator’s Network and each Telecom ROC’s Network respectively during the term of this Agreement to ensure that they comply at the Service Delivery Points with the PTC Specifications and CCITT recommendations and with their respective obligations under Clause 12 and Clauses 13.5 to 13.10 (inclusive).

13.4 The Service Operator and each Telecom ROC shall carry out testing in accordance with the requirements of Item 2 of Schedule F.

13.5 The parties shall comply with the technical requirements set out in Schedule H.

13.6 The Service Operator shall ensure that all Calls comply in level and frequency with the requirements of PTC 102 Figure 4.

13.7 The parties shall use their best endeavours to minimise distortion on Calls crossing a Service Delivery Point. In particular the Service Operator shall ensure a limitation of the QDU level specified in Item 2 of Schedule H for all Calls to or from Telecom Group’s international network which pass in and out of any Point of Interconnection.

13.8 Where a Call may eventually be transmitted to Telecom Group’s international network, the parties shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that they comply with:

13.8.1 CCITT recommendations; and

13.8.2 the principles and requirements of any co-respondent agreements between Telecom Group and overseas networks as notified to the Service Operator by the Principal ROC from time to time.

13.9 The Service Operator shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the quality of the conveyance of Calls to be accepted from a Telecom ROC’s Network and delivered to the recipient of the Call (or to another Service Delivery Point), is maintained between the point of acceptance of the Call from that Telecom ROC and the point of delivery of the Call. Each Telecom ROC shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the quality of the conveyance of Calls to be delivered to the Service Operator’s Network (or the recipient of the Call, as the case may be) is maintained between the point of acceptance of the Call from the Service Operator’s End User (or the Service Operator’s Network, as the case may be), and the point of