V-NXX is mainly a conflict for Inter-LATA numbers. ILEC's can give you V-NXX inside the LATA with services like Extended PRI and RCF, but ILEC's still have that LATA issue and mindset. So when L3 or GPOPs start giving out state-wide PRI's, that's when the ILEC's start screaming. It all comes down to the money - Inter-Carrier Compensation. V-NXX is mainly Inbound traffic, which means that the ILEC's are paying. They never like that. That's the main problem. Regards, Peter @ RAD-INFO, Inc. :
-----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 3:58 PM To: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: [VoiceOps] VNXX
What does the FCC and/or intercarrier compensation reform crowd mean, exactly, when they say "Virtual NXX?"
Is that some class of clever remote call forwarding schemes from a CO where the call between it and your rate center is rated LD by the ILEC, but which some call forwarding product manages to get around or mitigate somehow?
Or does it refer to carriers picking up inbound calls at the LATA supertandems by carriers from rate centers in which they don't have direct end-office trunking and whose number blocks are not homed to the tandems (any tandems) to which the carrier is connected? This was rather common during the dialup boom and often skirted the 'DS1-of-consistent-usage = DEOT needed' requirement in most form ICAs, as I understand it.