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the agreement of the Telecom Pricing Manager.

5.6.5 Shoutdown and Ringdown Service

Monthly Transmission Prices

All Shoutdown and Ringdown circuits incur a transmission charge which covers the costs of the link between the terminal centres to which the customers circuit ends connect.

The City Step transmission charge is applicable when a circuit is completely within the metropolitan borders of Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The Director of Sales in each ROC will determine what constitutes the metropolitan borders of each of these areas, but the intention is for a City Step to cover only what can be regarded as a continuous urban area. Circuits completely within the urban areas of other centres will usually be charged the Step A rate; but they may be determined as metropolitan by the local Director of Sales, subject to the agreement of the Telecom Pricing Manager.

SECTION 6 - INTERNATIONAL LEASED CIRCUIT SERVICES

6.1 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL VOICE SERVICE

International Digital Voice Service is a toll quality service available to Australia. It provides a half-circuit which meets CCITT recommendation M.1040. As a voice service it is unsuitable for data transmission and Telecom is unable to give any undertaking to support the transmission of data on this service.

Note:
A half-circuit means a leased circuit which is established between the customer’s Service Delivery Point or Points within New Zealand and a point of electrical interface with transmission facilities under the jurisdiction of an overseas telecommunications organisation.

6.1.1 Installation Charges

• Charge for new connection or installation per circuit... $1600.00

6.1.2 Monthly Lease Charges

• Charge per month for service based on one month minimum contract period... $3910.00

Charges for International Digital Voice Service for Longer Term Contracts.

Price concessions are available for longer-term contracts. Customers should enquire at their local Telecom ROC office for the applicable rates.

6.1.3 Additional Charges

There are five International Service Access Points which are located within the Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) local calling areas. Provided the customer’s Service Delivery Point lies within any one of the above-mentioned local calling areas, the monthly lease charge listed here includes the price of a local access circuit (either 2-wire or 4-wire) from the customer’s Service Delivery Point to the nearest International Service Access Point. Customers who require more than one local access circuit or who require service to be delivered to points outside of the five local calling areas will be charged standard Voice-Circuit access and transmission charges for these circuits.

6.1.4 Alteration and Reconfiguration Charges

Charges for alteration or reconfiguration of the terminating location within New Zealand will be charged standard Voice-Circuit alteration and reconfiguration charges.

6.2 LIGHTNET SERVICE (FIBRE-OPTIC CABLE SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA)

Lightnet Service is a digital fibre-optic cable service to Australia which is provided under Telecom’s standard provisioning arrangements of the “Telecom Contract for Lightnet Service”.

Telecom’s Lightnet Service provides a half-circuit designed for full duplex operation.

There are 5 International Service Access Points which are located within the Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington and Christchurch “City Step” tariff zones for Telecom’s Digital Data Service (DDS). Provided the customer’s Service Delivery Point lies within any one of the above tariff zones, the charges listed here include the price of a single local access circuit from the customer’s Service Delivery Point to the nearest International Service Access Point. Customers who require more than one local access circuit or who require service to points outside of the five “City Step”