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Nothing is simple

Aug29 Kevin on August 29th, 2009 From my Google Voice dashboard:Same story with GV.  No local prefixes available, yet nearby, sleepy  little towns of ~3,000 people have local numbers available.  Sigh. Here’s an explanation:An “ILEC” is an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier – a local telephone company that was in existence at the time of the break up of AT&T; a “CLEC” is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier – i.e., (quoting Wikipedia):  a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a “ See the rest here:  Nothing is simple

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