[83660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Sat Aug 20 13:44:08 2005
Date: 20 Aug 2005 13:43:37 -0400
From: "John R Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <430650BE.6060305@ehsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> As I remember Tennessee's rules, the PSC requirement was that every
> adjacent county was to be considered local.
>
> Area codes could usually cover multiple counties, but you usually know
> what city your calling destination is in. With ISP dial-in numbers, you
> might not, but that's pretty much the exception.
Exchange boundaries rarely match municipal boundaries, and there are a
whole bunch of arcane special cases like the one in Vermont that a call to
your town hall must be local. That's why it would be nice to be able to
query the billing database that really knows.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
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