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.

   (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]