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In the following states and regions, the primary local carrier is not an RBOC: Lumen Technologies, in addition to its role as the RBOC in the areas of 14 states gained from its acquisition of Qwest, Lumen serves other rural, suburban, and smaller city local exchanges, as well as most of the Las Vegas metropolitan area, covering a total of 16 states.
Local exchange carrier (LEC) is a regulatory term in telecommunications for the local telephone company. In the United States , wireline telephone companies are divided into two large categories: long-distance ( interexchange carrier , or IXCs) and local (local exchange carrier, or LECs).
A competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), in the United States and Canada, is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a "carrier") competing with other, already established carriers, generally the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC).
An incumbent local exchange carrier is a local exchange carrier (LEC) in a specific area that on the date of enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 , provided telephone exchange service on the date of enactment, was deemed to be a member of the National Exchange Carrier Association pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R ...
Map of LATAs in the US. Local access and transport area (LATA) is a term used in U.S. telecommunications regulation.It represents a geographical area of the United States under the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) entered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Civil Action number 82-0192 or any other geographic area designated as a LATA in the ...
Each carrier (interexchange or local exchange) is assigned a four-digit identification code, the carrier identification code (CIC) which was used with feature groups. The interexchange carrier to which calls from a subscriber line are routed by default is known as the presubscribed interexchange carrier ( PIC ).
The Lumen Technologies Operating Companies are local exchange carriers owned by Lumen Technologies, the third largest landline telephone company in the United States. [1]
A "Baby Bell" is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the breakup of AT&T into the resulting Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs). Sometimes also referred to as an "ILEC" (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) they were the former Bell System or Independent Telephone Company responsible for ...