A method of evaluating automatic message accounting records associated
with telephony calls that originate at a local exchange carrier telephony
office and that are routed over an inter-exchange carrier telephony
facility is disclosed. The method comprises collecting originating
automatic message accounting records associated with the originating
local exchange carrier telephony office, and collecting terminating
automatic message accounting records that correspond to the originating
automatic message accounting records. A first portion of the terminating
automatic message accounting records have a terminating access code and a
second portion of the terminating automatic message accounting records
have a local termination code.