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.