<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Our LATA is only about 80 miles wide. There are two tandems and we're based out of the same CO as the larger of the two. Ours has the biggest towns and something like 75% of all of the rate centers. It's just a cross connect away. :-)<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com><br><b>To: </b>voiceops@voiceops.org<br><b>Cc: </b>voiceops@ics-il.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:25:27 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] Definition: Local Calls<br><br>In article <1038462169.17163.1607448901620.JavaMail.mhammett@Thunderfuck2> you write:<br>>My operating theory is that if it's on the same tandem switch, I might as well treat it as local. <br><br>If only. At my rural ILEC, the next town up is a remote from the<br>switch in my town but for historical reasons they are not local to<br>each other so at least for people who haven't switched to bundled<br>plans, calls between them take a 150 mile detour to the tandem and<br>back.<br><br>That particular tandem also covers places 250 miles from here. I guess<br>it's nice if that's local.<br><br>R's,<br>John<br></div><br></div></body></html>