ANNEX C

SCHEDULE 167

BT Imported NGCS Service Calls and 
BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls

1.	Definitions

1.1	In this Schedule, a reference to a paragraph or Appendix unless stated otherwise is to a paragraph or Appendix of this Schedule. Words and expressions have the meaning given in Annex D and/or Schedule 07, except as shown below:

“BT Imported 03 UK-wide 
Number Call”	a ported 03 UK-wide Number Call handed over by the Operator System as the Range Holder System to the BT System as the Recipient System;

“BT Imported NGCS Service Call”	a ported NGCS Service Call handed over by the Operator System as the Range Holder System to the BT System as the Recipient System.	
		
2.	Description of Service

2.1	Subject to the provisions of Schedule 07 and of this Schedule, BT shall convey;

2.1.1	 BT Imported NGCS Service Calls handed over from the Operator System to the appropriate terminal apparatus nominated by the BT NGCS Service Provider or by BT if the terminal apparatus is connected to the BT System, or to the Operator System or a Third Party Operator’s system if the terminal apparatus is connected to that System or system; or

2.1.2 	BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls handed over from the Operator System to the BT Customer.

2.2	BT shall have no obligation to convey BT Imported NGCS Service Calls or BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls handed over from the Operator System intended for a BT Service Provider, if BT has suspended service to that BT Service Provider.

2.3	BT Imported NGCS Service Calls and BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls pursuant to this Schedule shall be separately identified in the Traffic Forecast supplied in accordance with Annex A.

2.4	The Parties shall agree in advance all necessary technical requirements, including Call set-up and clear down sequences, for the conveyance of Calls pursuant to this Schedule. The Parties shall convey such Calls in accordance with the agreed technical requirements, and shall not make any changes thereto unless otherwise agreed by the Parties.

2.5	BT shall convey BT Imported NGCS Service Calls and BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls pursuant to this Schedule during those periods of time and at the same standard and quality of service as BT conveys similar Calls.

2.6	Each Party shall correct faults which occur in its System which affect the conveyance of BT Imported NGCS Service Calls and/or BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls pursuant to this Schedule in accordance with such Party’s normal engineering practices.  For the avoidance of doubt, neither Party warrants that its System is, or will be, free from faults.

2.7	If there are abnormally high volumes of BT Imported NGCS Service Calls or BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls that the BT System cannot convey, pursuant to this Schedule, the Operator may apply network management controls in the Operator System or BT may apply network management controls in the BT System.

2.8	International Calls (other than (i) BT Imported NGCS Service Calls to Numbers commencing with the digits 084 or 087 or (ii) BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls) are not conveyed pursuant to this Schedule.

3.	Routing

3.1	The conveyance of BT Imported NGCS Service Calls and BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls shall be in accordance with the routing principles for NGCS Calls specified in Annex A and Schedule 07.

4.	Charging

4.1	Without prejudice to any charges payable under Schedule 07, in connection with the conveyance by BT pursuant to this Schedule, BT shall pay to the Operator, or the Operator shall pay to BT, as the case may be:

		(a) for each BT Imported NGCS Service Call a charge in accordance with 	the appropriate NGCS Service category for such a Call; and

		(b) for each BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Call a charge

 	at the rate as specified from time to time in the Carrier Price List.

4.2	If the Operator has paid to BT a charge for Payphone Access Charge in respect of an 080 Free Phone NGCS Call which originated from a Calling Party from a BT Public Call Box (as defined in General Condition 6) or a temporary BT Public Call Box  or an equivalent payphone on the BT System being a payphone which is operated  by a payphone operator other than BT, has been handed over by the BT System to the Operator System as Range Holder System, and then handed over by the Operator System to the BT System as the Recipient System, then BT shall repay such charge in respect of such Call.

4.3	If BT subsequently requires additional Data Management Amendments to add or remove a prefix in respect of Non-Geographic Number Portability beyond those established as part of the original service establishment work under the Non-Geographic Number Portability End-to-End Process Manual as such Manual may be agreed by the Operator Policy Forum Non-Geographic Number Portability Process Group from time to time, BT shall pay to the Operator charges in accordance with the rates as specified from time to time in the Carrier Price List.
 
5.	Commencement

5.1	BT shall convey BT Imported NGCS Service Calls or BT Imported 03 UK-wide Number Calls handed over from the Operator System commencing on a date to be agreed in writing by the Parties.