[cisco-voip] does anyone see seperate long distance trunks any more?

[Simon, Bill]

We have PRIs from three different carriers terminating in our gateways.

One carrier is strictly local; the other two offer highly competitive 
inter-LATA rates.  We route through them for long distance and as backup 
if the local circuits are full or unavailable.

Of course we're still back in the stone age with our PRIs; if you're 
using IP trunks I have no advice :-)

Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
> I'm doing some redesign of my dial-plan and have sorted my route groups 
> into local and long distance, however, they contain the same trunks.
>  
> This was done on the off chance we would purchase local and long 
> distance service from seperate providers.
>  
> However, with the age of digital (and even analog I would assume), if I 
> were to purchase my long distance service from another provider, would 
> they simply not 'pic' the long distance from my local service provider, 
> eliminating the need for seperate trunks?
>  
> I guess I'm just wondering if I need to do this level of seperation any 
> more?