Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!caen!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Can the Local Telco be the Default Carrier? Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 16:03:26 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 14 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 334, Message 4 of 11 As you have seen in this Digest and elsewhere, the local companies have a waiver permitting them to serve as long distance carrier for calls between Philadelphia and southern NJ NYC and northern NJ. You do see default carriers listed on payphones, and sometimes I have seen companies I haven't heard of before. (Yes, the complaints about COCOTs include comments about getting a company you've never heard of before, but on a NJ Bell payphone in Voorhees I saw a company I hadn't heard of before: American Network Exchange in Orlando, Florida.) But I do not recall the local phone company ever appearing as a default carrier on phones in areas where the above waiver applies (admittedly I haven't looked that much); is it because you'd have to list a different carrier for calls beyond the range of the waiver?