[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: 47CFR64.710]

[Page 279-280]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 64_MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO COMMON CARRIERS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart G_Furnishing of Enhanced Services and Customer-Premises 
   Equipment by Bell Operating Companies; Telephone Operator Services
 
Sec. 64.710  Operator services for prison inmate phones.

    (a) Each provider of inmate operator services shall:
    (1) Identify itself and disclose, audibly and distinctly to the 
consumer, at no charge and before connecting any interstate, non-access 
code operator service call, how to obtain the total

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cost of the call, including any surcharge or premises-imposed-fee. The 
oral disclosure required in this paragraph shall instruct consumers that 
they may obtain applicable rate and surcharge quotations either, at the 
option of the provider of inmate operator services, by dialing no more 
than two digits or by remaining on the line. The phrase ``total cost of 
the call,'' as used in this paragraph, means both the variable 
(duration-based) charges for the call and the total per-call charges, 
exclusive of taxes, that the carrier, or its billing agent, may collect 
from the consumer for the call. Such phrase shall include any per-call 
surcharge imposed by the correctional institution, unless it is subject 
to regulation itself as a common carrier for imposing such surcharges, 
if the contract between the carrier and the correctional institution 
prohibits both resale and the use of pre-paid calling card arrangements.
    (2) Permit the consumer to terminate the telephone call at no charge 
before the call is connected; and
    (3) Disclose immediately to the consumer, upon request and at no 
charge to the consumer--
    (i) The methods by which its rates or charges for the call will be 
collected; and
    (ii) The methods by which complaints concerning such rates, charges 
or collection practices will be resolved.
    (b) As used in this subpart:
    (1) Consumer means the party to be billed for any interstate call 
from an inmate telephone;
    (2) Inmate telephone means a telephone instrument set aside by 
authorities of a prison or other correctional institution for use by 
inmates.
    (3) Inmate operator services means any interstate telecommunications 
service initiated from an inmate telephone that includes, as a 
component, any automatic or live assistance to a consumer to arrange for 
billing or completion, or both, of an interstate telephone call through 
a method other than:
    (i) Automatic completion with billing to the telephone from which 
the call originated; or
    (ii) Completion through an access code used by the consumer, with 
billing to an account previously established with the carrier by the 
consumer;
    (4) Provider of inmate operator services means any common carrier 
that provides outbound interstate operator services from inmate 
telephones.

[63 FR 11617, Mar. 10, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 2820, Jan. 22, 2002]