Sec. 64.1401  Expanded interconnection.

    (a) Every local exchange carrier that is classified as a Class A 
company under Sec. 32.11 of this chapter and that is not a National 
Exchange Carrier Association interstate tariff participant, as provided 
in part 69, subpart G of this chapter, shall offer expanded 
interconnection for interstate special access services at their central 
offices that are classified as end offices or serving

[[Page 201]]

wire centers, and at other rating points used for interstate special 
access.
    (b) The local exchange carriers specified in paragraph (a) of this 
section shall offer expanded interconnection for interstate switched 
transport services:
    (1) In their central offices that are classified as end offices or 
serving wire centers, as well as at all tandem offices housed in 
buildings containing such carriers' end offices or serving wire centers 
for which interstate switched transport expanded interconnection has 
been tariffed;
    (2) Upon bona fide request, in tandem offices housed in buildings 
not containing such carriers' end offices or serving wire centers, or in 
buildings containing the carriers' end offices or serving wire centers 
for which interstate switched transport expanded interconnection has not 
been tariffed; and
    (3) Upon bona fide request, at remote nodes/switches that serve as 
rating points for interstate switched transport and that are capable of 
routing outgoing interexchange access traffic to interconnectors and in 
which interconnectors can route terminating traffic to such carriers. No 
such carrier is required to enhance remote nodes/switches or to build 
additional space to accommodate interstate switched transport expanded 
interconnection at these locations.
    (c) The local exchange carriers specified in paragraph (a) of this 
section shall offer expanded interconnection for interstate special 
access and switched transport services through virtual collocation, 
except that they may offer physical collocation, instead of virtual 
collocation, in specific central offices, as a service subject to non-
streamlined communications common carrier regulation under Title II of 
the Communications Act (47 U.S.C. 201-228).
    (d) For the purposes of this subpart, physical collocation means an 
offering that enables interconnectors:
    (1) To place their own equipment needed to terminate basic 
transmission facilities, including optical terminating equipment and 
multiplexers, within or upon the local exchange carrier's central office 
buildings;
    (2) To use such equipment to connect interconnectors' fiber optic 
systems or microwave radio transmission facilities (where reasonably 
feasible) with the local exchange carrier's equipment and facilities 
used to provide interstate special access services;
    (3) To enter the local exchange carrier's central office buildings, 
subject to reasonable terms and conditions, to install, maintain, and 
repair the equipment described in paragraph (d)(1) of this section; and
    (4) To obtain reasonable amounts of space in central offices for the 
equipment described in paragraph (d)(1) of this section, allocated on a 
first-come, first-served basis.
    (e) For purposes of this subpart, virtual collocation means an 
offering that enables interconnectors:
    (1) To designate or specify equipment needed to terminate basic 
transmission facilities, including optical terminating equipment and 
multiplexers, to be located within or upon the local exchange carrier's 
buildings, and dedicated to such interconnectors' use,
    (2) To use such equipment to connect interconnectors' fiber optic 
systems or microwave radio transmission facilities (where reasonably 
feasible) with the local exchange carrier's equipment and facilities 
used to provide interstate special and switched access services, and
    (3) To monitor and control their communications channels terminating 
in such equipment.
    (f) Under both physical collocation offering and virtual collocation 
offerings for expanded interconnection of fiber optic facilities, local 
exchange carriers shall provide:
    (1) An interconnection point or points at which the fiber optic 
cable carrying an interconnectors' circuits can enter each local 
exchange carrier location, provided that the local exchange carrier 
shall designate interconnection points as close as reasonably possible 
to each location; and
    (2) At least two such interconnection points at any local exchange 
carrier location at which there are at least two entry points for the 
local exchange carrier's cable facilities, and space is available for 
new facilities in at least two of those entry points.

[[Page 202]]

    (g) The local exchange carriers specified in paragraph (a) of this 
section shall offer signalling for tandem switching, as defined in 
Sec. 69.2(vv) of this chapter, at central offices that are classified as 
equal office end offices or serving wire centers, or at signal transfer 
points if such information is offered via common channel signalling.

[ 57 FR 54331 , Nov. 18, 1992, as amended at  58 FR 48762 , Sept. 17, 1993; 
 59 FR 32930 , June 27, 1994;  59 FR 38930 , Aug. 1, 1994]