Instruction manual

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Features and Services
Equal Access Compliance
Contents
The following are the topics in this section:
Feature description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1429
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements . . . . . . 1430
Equal Access dialing plans . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1430
Route types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431
Call restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431
BARS/NARS routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432
Feature interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432
Feature packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432
Feature implementation . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432
Task summary list . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1432
Feature operation . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437
Feature description
A telephone user can select any interexchange carrier for any given call by
using a Carrier Access Code (CAC). A CAC comprises an Equal Access
identifier and a Carrier Identification Code (CIC). Nortel Networks refers to
a call preceded by a CAC as an Equal Access call.