[83574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Aug 18 10:05:08 2005
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:04:30 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200508181242.j7ICgraG012319@host122.r-bonomi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:42:53AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> The CLEC can't tell you (and thus, neither can the ISP) which prefixes are a
> 'non-toll' call to their numbeers. And trying to get an authoritative answer
> from the ILEC about what charges are to the CLEC's prefix can be _very_
> difficult.
In some cases it can be easy, once you're online (paying
high rates of course ;-) you can visit (in some cases) the telco
websites:
(eg: input 734-764, then 214-413)
http://localcalling.sbc.com/LCA/lca_input.jsp
The fun part is, it works for most of the states, except
that most strange/obscure/messed up one, Texas.
There's also:
(734-429)
http://www22.verizon.com/CallingAreas/LocalCallFinder/LocalCallFinderSAS.htm
- Jared
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