Local Access Transport Area Geographical area within which telephone calls can be handled without going through a long-distance carrier Telephone calls between different LATA lines must go through long-distance carriers Also provide a method for delineating the areas where BOCs can offer service, and were the means of determining how the assets of Bell were divided between BOCs and AT&T These are not area codes
Geographic areas within which the various RBOCs can provide telephone service, as defined in the AT&T divestiture agreement The territory is often smaller than the area code RBOCs can provide intra-LATA service, but not inter-LATA telecommunications
Local Access Transport Areas (200 in the U S ) A geographic service area defined in the AT&T Modified Final Judgement The RBOCs (baby Bells) and GTE are restricted to operations within, but not between, LATAs Long distance service within a LATA is provided by the LEC Service between LATAs is provided by an IEC LATAs are represented by a 3-character code, and there are 164 of them across the country
Local Access and Transport Area: This was created by the 1984 divestiture and defines the geographic area over which the LEC may provide toll calls The area is often smaller than that covered by a long distance area code Even though ten or twenty LATAs are normally to be found within the territory of a LEC, the LEC may not provide calls that cross LATA boundaries Such inter-LATA traffic is the exclusive domain of the IXC
Local Access and Transport Area Geographic areas created during the 1984 AT&T divestiture of the Bell operating companies Designate local telephone service coverage areas
(Local Access and Transport Area): A geographic territory used primarily by local telephone companies to determine charges for intrastate calls As a result of the Bell divestiture, switched calls that both begin and end at points within the LATA (intraLATA) are generally the sole responsibility of the local telephone company, while calls that cross outside the LATA (interLATA) are passed on to an Inter eXchange Carrier (IXC)
Local Access and Transport Area is a term in the U S for a geographic area covered by one or more local telephone companies, which are legally referred to as local exchange carriers (LECs) A connection between two local exchanges within the LATA is referred to as intraLATA A connection between a carrier in one LATA to a carrier in another LATA is referred to as interLATA InterLATA is long-distance service The current rules for permitting a company to provide intraLATA or interLATA service (or both) are based on the Telecommunications Act of 1996
stands for Local Access Transport Area These are local telephone service areas created by the divestiture of the regional Bell operating companies (BOCs) formerly associated with AT&T
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In the telecommunications industry, the US is divided into LATA's (local access and transport area) which are covered by one or more local telephone companies The local telephone companies are also referred to as local exchange carriers A LATA may have one or more area codes
Geographic boundaries of the local telephone network, specified by the FCC, in which a single LEC may perform its operations Communications outside or between LATAs are provided by IXCs
Local Access and Transport Area One of 161 local geographical areas in the U S within which a local telephone company may offer telecommunications services