[188869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Wed Apr 20 10:59:35 2016
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:59:30 -0400
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On 2016-04-20 10:52, Owen DeLong wrote:
> For the most part, “long distance” calls within the US are a thing of the
> past and at least one mobile carrier now treats US/CA/MX as a single
> local calling area
Is this a case of telcos having switched to IP trunks and can reach
other carriers for "free"
Or are wholesale long distance still billed between carriers but at
prices so low that they can afford to offer "free" long distance at
retail level ?
