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  This message and those that follow it under the  
heading "AT&T Breakup" are slightly edited versions 
of messages written by Tom Nicholas #72355,1352 
on the Software Author's SIG.  They will provide 
you with background for Sunday's Conference at 4PM 
EDT. In this Tom shares what he learned at a 
conference. 
First here's the jargon and what it means:
  Access Charge - The charge that has been
         established by the FCC, via tariffs, for 
         local operating companies to soften the 
         loss of toll income. Some local operating 
         companies would like you to believe that 
         this charge is for you to have a 
         connection to AT&T, hence the name.
  AT&T -  American Telegraph and Telephone.
  BOC -  Bell Operating Company. Such as Ohio
         Bell, New England Bell, Southern Bell. 
         Those companies in which AT&T had MAJORITY 
         control, providing local service to a 
         specific area of the country.
  CA  -  Carrier Access. This refers accessing of 
         the Local Operating Company's network
         by the toll carriers.
  CAB -  Carrier Access Billing. The charge that 
         the Local Operating may impose on the
         toll carrier for accessing the local 
         network. This includes charges to AT&T, 
         MCI, etc. This is to include not only out-
         going calls, but incoming also. (I know 
         that sounds strange, they still haven't 
         figured a good, inexpensive way to measure
         that one, yet.)
  CSO -  Central Service Organization. A
         'temporary' company established to handle 
         the functions performed by AT&T as a 
         service to all BOCs when it was one 
         'happy' family. This included
         routing collect/credit card call billing, 
         as an example.
Independent - An independent telephone company.
         It may be as small as a few hundred
         customers for local service, or as larg

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