Kanuri, Seshu (Company IT) wrote:
Enlighten us here. How can you send Long distance calls on local trunks, when you have these trunks designed to send calls to particular rate centers?
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Am I missing something here?
Yeah, he was referring to terminating a call that originated outside of your area on your local trunk. The local carrier may consider that long distance. (I'm assuming he meant that would somehow be in violation of your agreement.)
Well, to be more specific ...
<Insert 'I am not a telco engineer' disclaimer here.>
Most facilities-based CLECs have at least 3 kinds of trunks[0]:
* Local * "RBOC" Long Distance * IXC
Local trunks are designed for callers for whom the call is local. "RBOC Long Distance" trunks are trunks going to the RBOC, but terminating a call that is long distance (ie, in-state long distance). IXC trunks are for "pure" long distance calls.
The RBOC and CLEC calling areas are often different. Therefore, the RBOC cannot make the same kind of "blanket assumptions" about CLEC trunks that they can PRIs they've sold to end users. RBOCs generally "lock down" end user PRIs pretty tightly. On the other hand, facilities-based CLECs generally have a fair amount of latitude. Wireless carriers have even different rules than the CLECs...
If an RBOC sees large numbers of "out of area" ANIs coming through a CLEC's local trunks, it would be in the interest of the RBOC to bring this to a halt. While this might be a gray area ... I'll repeat my original assertion. I'd rather not find myself "holding the bag" while the regulators duke it out.
<Insert 'All this varies by region and RBOC' disclaimer here.>
Yours,
-jbn
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