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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: Intra-NPA Long Distance
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 650, Message 1 of 10


Joel Levin wrote in volume 10, issue 645:

| From: "Sander J. Rabinowitz" <0003829147@mcimail.com>:

| >I suspect that this must be temporary, because I was under the
| >impression that LDC's could not handle intra-LATA calls.

| LDCs must handle all customer calls between two LATAs.  The BOCs are
| not permitted to do this (exception: "corporate" calls between two BOC
| offices in different LATAs can be handled by the BOC itself).

| LDCs MAY handle intra-LATA calls at the discretion of the state's
| regulatory agency.  In some states this is allowed; in some it is not.

{Note: zeroes in this article were intentionally typed as capital O's
so that those of you reading in fonts with slashed zeroes can easily
distinguish "seven hundred" from "seven zero eight."}

Even at that, long-distance carriers don't have to carry intra-LATA
calls if they don't wish to.  I can dial one of my lines from the
other via US Sprint or Telecom*USA, for example, but not via MCI nor
AT&T.  Telecom*USA even offers a shortcut for dialing intra-LATA,
intra-NPA calls via their lines: 1-7OO-NXX-XXXX is assumed to be a
call within your area code.  (Secondary customers, I imagine, can dial
1O835-1-7OO-NXX-XXXX or 1O835-1-NPA-NXX-XXXX.)  Intra-LATA, inter-NPA
calls require 1O835-1-NPA-NXX-XXXX, of course, or the local telco will
carry them.  For some parts of the old 312, Telecom*USA's night rates
are lower for me than my telco's rates, so the 1-7OO- was useful; now
those areas are in 7O8, so I have to use 1O835-1-7O8- to call them via
Telecom*USA.


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