A system and method for exchanging telecommunication service information between
a telecommunication service provider and a telecommunication service customer include
electronically receiving a request in a predefined format to establish an interactive
session with a telecommunications customer, determining whether the telecommunications
customer is authorized for electronically exchanging information and continuing
only if the customer is authorized, parsing the request to identify information
related to at least one telecommunications service offered by the telecommunications
services provider, the telecommunications service having an associated identification
code, determining whether the requested telecommunication service is available
in a particular location, and automatically generating information associated with
the requested telecommunications service and transmitting the information using
the predetermined format to the customer. In one embodiment, the predetermined
format is determined by a standards organization, such as ANSI, and transmitted
during an interactive session using a TCP/IP connection.