If you are in the telecommunications industry, this is very likely a familiar term to you. Local access and transport area (LATA) is a regulatory term. It has to do with an event known as the Modified Final Judgment (MFJ) and the distinction between local exchange carriers (LEC) and interexchange carriers (IXC). Today's PodSnack is a continuation of a topic I started last Friday.

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