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Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
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The Federal Communications Commission (``Commission'') adopts a Report and Order implementing Section 276 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (``1996 Act''). In the Report and Order, the Commission adopts new rules and policies governing the payphone industry that: establish a plan to ensure fair compensation for ``each and every completed intrastate and interstate call using [a] payphone[,]'' discontinue intrastate and interstate carrier access charge payphone service elements and payments and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic exchange services, prescribe nonstructural safeguards for Bell Operating Company (``BOC'') payphones, permit the BOCs to negotiate with payphone location providers on the interLATA carrier presubscribed to their payphones, permit all payphone service providers to negotiate with location providers on the intraLATA carrier presubscribed to their payphones, and adopt guidelines for use by the states in establishing public interest payphones to be located ``where there would otherwise not be a payphone[.]'' As set forth in the Report and Order and explained below, the Commission is issuing the Report and Order to comply with the statutory mandate of Section 276 of the 1996 Act of ``promot[ing] competition among payphone service providers and promot[ing] the widespread deployment of payphone services to the benefit of the general public * * *.''
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Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; Federal Register Vol. 61, Issue
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Final rule.
The Federal Communications Commission (``Commission'') adopts a Report and Order implementing Section 276 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (``1996 Act''). In the Report and Order, the Commission adopts new rules and policies governing the payphone industry that: establish a plan to ensure fair compensation for ``each and every completed intrastate and interstate call using [a] payphone[,]'' discontinue intrastate and interstate carrier access charge payphone service elements and payments and intrastate and interstate payphone subsidies from basic exchange services, prescribe nonstructural safeguards for Bell Operating Company (``BOC'') payphones, permit the BOCs to negotiate with payphone location providers on the interLATA carrier presubscribed to their payphones, permit all payphone service providers to negotiate with location providers on the intraLATA carrier presubscribed to their payphones, and adopt guidelines for use by the states in establishing public interest payphones to be located ``where there would otherwise not be a payphone[.]'' As set forth in the Report and Order and explained below, the Commission is issuing the Report and Order to comply with the statutory mandate of Section 276 of the 1996 Act of ``promot[ing] competition among payphone service providers and promot[ing] the widespread deployment of payphone services to the benefit of the general public * * *.''
The revision of the heading of subpart M and the authority citation of part 64 and the amendment to Sec. 64.1301 and new Sec. 64.1340 become effective November 6, 1996. The amendments to Sec. 64.703 and new Sec. 64.1330 become effective December 16, 1996. Section 64.1301 is removed and Secs. 64.1300, 64.1310 and 64.1320 become effective October 7, 1997. Sections 68.2 and 68.3 become effective April 15, 1997.
Michael Carowitz, 202-418-0960, Enforcement Division, Common Carrier Bureau.
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