[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR64.1300]

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                       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.

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    (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 $.494.

[71 FR 3014, Jan. 19, 2006]