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. :-) ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Levine" <johnl at taugh.com> To: voiceops at voiceops.org Cc: voiceops at ics-il.net Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:25:27 AM Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Definition: Local Calls In article <1038462169.17163.1607448901620.JavaMail.mhammett at Thunderfuck2> you write:
My operating theory is that if it's on the same tandem switch, I might as well treat it as local.
If only. At my rural ILEC, the next town up is a remote from the switch in my town but for historical reasons they are not local to each other so at least for people who haven't switched to bundled plans, calls between them take a 150 mile detour to the tandem and back. That particular tandem also covers places 250 miles from here. I guess it's nice if that's local. R's, John