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Subject: Re: International Calls Using Credit Card and Equal Access
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Date: 7 Jul 90 01:50:43 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 469, Message 9 of 15


 
Greg Monti states:

>There are no "different" vendors for overseas calls and for domestic
>calls.  US regulations (the Modified Final Judgment) state that, from
>any US phone, the whole world is divided into just two areas:
>intra-LATA and inter-LATA.  Overseas calls are obviously in the second
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>category and therefore the long distance companies carry them.  
^^^^^^^^^ 

This is not quite accurate.  LEC's are not allowed to provide
inter-LATA service.  They are allowed to provide intra-LATA and
International service.
 
This situation in very familiar to the carriers that serve the Hawaii
market.  One of the largest IRC's (International Record Carriers) in
the region is GTE Hawaiian Telephone (HawTel) the local LEC.  When
competing for service between Hawaii and other Pacific points
(including U.S. points of Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas
and American Samoa) we find our LEC (which has a monopoly for local
service ... both dialup access and leased line local loops) is also the
IRC competing with us.  In order to prepare a bid, we must notify our ...


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