Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; AT&T Request for Limited Waiver of the Per-Call Compensation Obligation
telecom-common-carrier · Federal Communications Commission · Published 1998-05-13 · Effective 1998-04-03 · 63 FR 26497
Document
Document number
98-12347
Federal Register citation
63 FR 26497
CFR reference
47 CFR 69
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule; clarification and waivers
Category
telecom-common-carrier
Publication date
1998-05-13
Effective date
1998-04-03
FCC docket
CC Docket 96-128
Abstract
The Common Carrier Bureau adopted a Memorandum Opinion and Order (``Order''), which grants interexchange carriers (``IXCs'') a waiver of the payphone compensation requirements of the Payphone Orders to enable them to pay to payphone service providers (``PSPs'') per- phone instead of per-call compensation for subscriber 800 and access code calls from payphones when payphone-specific coding digits are not available from those payphones. The Order also serves as a companion to the Bureau Coding Digit Waiver Order, because in the Order the Bureau grants IXCs a waiver of the per-call compensation requirement so they may pay per-phone instead of per-call compensation for the payphones for which the Bureau granted waivers in the Bureau Waiver Order and the Bureau Coding Digit Waiver Order.