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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 00:33:01 PDT
- From: Jay.Ashworth@f8649.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Intra-lata LD and COCOTs
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 922, Message 8 of 10
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- GTE Florida recently converted my service area from 0 + 7 for
- intra-lata LD calls to 0 + 10. Now, it took the local COCOTs about a
- month to catch on, and allow 0 + 813 + 7 calls at all, but their
- fixing that leaves me with another problem.
-
- Well, maybe it's not a problem, but I _am_ curious ...
-
- Since these phones automagically route LD calls to the phone owner's
- preferred AOS/IXC, (which I'm told is no longer illegal), _all_ calls
- go there. Even calls that would normally go through the LEC.
-
- Is there an equal access code that routes calls through whatever LEC
- owns the line? Or specific ones for each LEC -- although I suspect that
- would be impossible to administer.
-
- If not, how long do you think it will be before the LEC's start
- screaming for such a code ... when they discover their revenue
- sliding?
-
- And would anybody else use such a code, anyway? (Note: Most LEC card
- calls are flat rate, most IXC intra-lata card calls very probably are
- not.)
-
-
- Cheers,
-
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