> As I remember Tennessee's rules, the PSC requirement was that every > adjacent county was to be considered local. > > Area codes could usually cover multiple counties, but you usually know > what city your calling destination is in. With ISP dial-in numbers, you > might not, but that's pretty much the exception.
Exchange boundaries rarely match municipal boundaries, and there are a whole bunch of arcane special cases like the one in Vermont that a call to your town hall must be local. That's why it would be nice to be able to query the billing database that really knows. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.