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The contract between two operators setting out which hierarchies they exchange, in what volume, and at whose cost. Terms decide whether a backbone receives a full binary feed or only text groups, which in turn sets what its subscribers can read. Agreements are private, so the practical evidence of a good one is high completion on recent articles.
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