New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

Sat Aug 20 17:43:37 UTC 2005

> 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 at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
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