§ 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 $.494.

   [ 71 FR 3014 , Jan. 19, 2006]

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