[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR64.1300]

[Page 302]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 64_MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO COMMON CARRIERS--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart M_Provision of Payphone Service
 
Sec. 64.1300  Payphone compensation obligation.


    (a) For purposes of this subpart, a Completing Carrier is a long 
distance carrier or switch-based long distance reseller that completes a 
coinless access code or subscriber toll-free payphone call or a local 
exchange carrier that completes a local, coinless access code or 
subscriber toll-free payphone call.
    (b) Except as provided herein, a Completing Carrier that completes a 
coinless access code or subscriber toll-free payphone call from a switch 
that the Completing Carrier either owns or leases shall compensate the 
payphone service provider for that call at a rate agreed upon by the 
parties by contract.
    (c) The compensation obligation set forth herein shall not apply to 
calls to emergency numbers, calls by hearing disabled persons to a 
telecommunications relay service or local calls for which the caller has 
made the required coin deposit.
    (d) In the absence of an agreement as required by paragraph (b) of 
this section, the carrier is obligated to compensate the payphone 
service provider at a per-call rate of $.24.

[68 FR 62755, Nov. 6, 2003]