# The Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2003-11-06 · Effective 2001-04-27 · 68 FR 62751
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-27891
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 62751
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 64
- **Publication date:** 2003-11-06
- **Effective date:** 2001-04-27
- **FCC docket:** CC Docket No. 96-128
## Abstract

This document adopts new payphone compensation rules that place liability on the facilities-based long distance carrier to compensate payphone service providers (PSPs) for payphone-originated calls that are completed on that facilities-based long distance carrier's platform. The Commission also establishes a payment mechanism for switch-based resellers (SBRs) to compensate PSPs for this liability. In satisfying its liability obligation to a PSP, the SBR must establish its own call tracking system, have a third party attest that the system accurately tracks payphone calls to completion, and pay a PSP directly based on the SBR's own call tracking data. Other facilities-based long distance carriers in the call path, if any, must provide reports to the PSPs of payphone-originated calls switched to another facilities-based carrier's platform.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/11/06/03-27891/the-pay-telephone-reclassification-and-compensation-provisions-of-the-telecommunications-act-of-1996)
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