Sec. 64.1310  Payphone compensation payment procedures.

    (a) It is the responsibility of each carrier to whom a compensable 
call from a payphone is routed to track, or arrange for the tracking of, 
each such call so that it may accurately compute the compensation 
required by Section 64.1300(a).
    (b) Carriers and payphone service providers shall establish 
arrangements for the billing and collection of compensation for calls 
subject to Section 64.1300(a).
    (c) Local Exchange Carriers must provide to carriers required to pay 
compensation pursuant to Section 64.1300(a) a list of payphone numbers 
in their service areas. The list must be provided on a quarterly basis. 
Local Exchange Carriers must verify disputed numbers in a timely manner, 
and must maintain verification data for 18 months after close of the 
compensation period.
    (d) Local Exchange Carriers must respond to all carrier requests for

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payphone number verification in connection with the compensation 
requirements herein, even if such verification is a negative response.
    (e) A payphone service provider that seeks compensation for 
payphones that are not included on the Local Exchange Carrier's list 
satisfies its obligation to provide alternative reasonable verification 
to a payor carrier if it provides to that carrier:
    (1) A notarized affidavit attesting that each of the payphones for 
which the payphone service provider seeks compensation is a payphone 
that was in working order as of the last day of the compensation period; 
and
    (2) Corroborating evidence that each such payphone is owned by the 
payphone service provider seeking compensation and was in working order 
on the last day of the compensation period. Corroborating evidence shall 
include, at a minimum, the telephone bill for the last month of the 
billing quarter indicating use of a line screening service.

[ 61 FR 52324 , Oct. 7, 1996]

    Effective Date Note: At  61 FR 52324 , Oct. 7, 1996, Sec. 64.1310 was 
added, effective Oct. 7, 1997.