Sec. 64.1300  Payphone compensation obligation.

    (a) Except as provided herein, every carrier to whom a completed 
call from a payphone is routed shall compensate the payphone service 
provider for the call at a rate agreed upon by the parties by contract.
    (b) 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.
    (c) In the absence of an agreement as required by paragraph (a) of 
this section, the carrier obligated to compensate the payphone service 
provider shall do so at a per-call rate equal to its local coin rate at 
the payphone in question.
    (d) For the initial one-year period during which carriers are 
required to pay per-call compensation, in the absence of an agreement as 
required by

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paragraph (a) of this section, the carrier is obligated to compensate 
the payphone service provider at a per-call rate of $.35 per call. After 
this initial one-year period of per-call compensation, paragraph (c) of 
this section will apply.

[ 61 FR 52324 , Oct. 7, 1996]

    Effective Date Note: At  61 FR 52324 , Oct. 7, 1996, Sec. 64.1300 was 
added, effective Oct. 7, 1997