A system routes local toll-free communications to a toll-free
communications address via local switches and/or local network onto
interconnecting local providers with local access settlement rates,
thereby allowing a local rather than toll cost structure of the
communication. When an originating communications address is identified
as an LCA, intraLATA, or otherwise local communications address, the
system routes the local toll-free call from the network to participating
local switches that service the subscriber's terminating communications.
According to exemplary embodiments, the originating communications are
separated between the LCA and the rest of the LATA based upon the
NPA-NXXs that are considered local to the subscriber's terminating
number. The system also provides for communicating and routing local toll
free communications and for reporting each local toll free communication
to the subscriber.