Definitions for "Local access and transport area"
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Geographic regions within the U.S.A. that define areas within which the Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) can offer exchange and exchange access services (local calling, private lines, etc.).
These are telephone company service areas (there are 196 geographical areas in the US).
See LATA.
The geographical area served by a single local telephone company.
A geographic area within a telephone company's franchised territory which has been established in accordance with the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) for the purpose of defining the area within which a telephone company may offer services.
A geographical area designated by the FCC for the provision and administration of telephone service to individual customers; designated exchanges grouped to serve common social and economic communities of interest.
(LATA)- One of 196 geographic service areas defined in part by the 1982 AT&T consent decree. The seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) which resulted from the break-up of AT&T could not provide telephone service between LATAs (INTER-LATA) but could do so within a LATA (INTRA-LATA).
Within a LATA the LEC can carry all the traffic. The LEC is restricted from carrying traffic between LATA's, i.e., interLATA traffic can not be transmitted by the LEC.
A geographic area established for distinguishing between local calls and long distance toll calls. It usually covers one or more communities of interest. Some toll rates may apply within a LATA.
A geographical area within which a divested Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) is permitted to offer exchange telecommunications and exchange access services.
A service territory within which a Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) may provide local and long-distance service. LATAs were created as a result of the court-ordered break-up of AT&T in 1984. Ten such areas exist in Indiana.
A geographic area within each LEC (Local Exchange Company) franchised area where that LEC has the exclusive rights to operate.
A contiguous local exchange area which includes every point served by a local phone company within an existing community of interest.
Defines the geographic area over which the LEC may provide toll calls. There are about 192 LATA's defined in the US.
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.
Any area where a local exchange carrier provides local and intraLATA service, and access to interexchange carriers for interLATA service. The Department of Justice creates LATAs at Divestiture in order to "even-out" the local calling areas served by the AT&T monopoly were not designated as LATAs, but are usually included in LATA lists.
A specific area in the US in which a local telephone company can offer services.
Geographical boundaries within which local telephone companies may provide local telephone services (and some limited toll services). There are 184 LATAs in the United States.
a contiguous geographic area established before the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by a Bell operating company such that no exchange area includes points within more than 1 metropolitan statistical area, consolidated metropolitan statistical area, or State.
A geographical area, the boundaries of which are a so-called service area.
A geographical area used for regulatory, pricing, and network organization purposes to partition the public switched telephone network into distinct regions.
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 National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. Tariff FCC No. 4."