Baby Bells - See BOC
Ballot
A release form that authorizes a customer's long-distance phone service to be switched to (another) long-distance carrier, or reseller. Also know as a Letter Of Agency or LOA.
BOC - Bell Operating Company (Baby Bell)
One of the 19 companies carved out of the AT&T monopoly by the 1983 Consent Decree to provide local phone service or IntraLATA services.
Billing Increment
The time increment used to determine the length of a call. Providers may charge per minute or per 6-seconds or some other time increment.
BTN - Billing Telephone Number
The phone number associated, for billing purposes, with the Working Phone Number.
