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

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:23 -0400, 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?

We have separate trunks - one set for local & 800 service, and one set
for long distance and international calls.  The trunks that service our
long distance and international calls are provided by a state run
carrier (the Iowa Communications Network).  Since it's state run we get
decent rates (presumably due to bulk purchases from the national LD
carrriers, possibly some tax subsidies as well).  Regulations prevent
the state-run carrier from providing local service so we buy that from
the local incumbent carrier.

Jeff
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