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IP: Just say goodbye to 800 # calling from payphones!
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 03:54:09 -0500
From: "Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () radiomail net> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> The FCC has ordered the RECIPIENT of an 800 # call to compensate a payphone owner 35 cents for calls. This all came about in a recently issued FCC order on reconsideration # 96-439, that among other things addressed the compensation to payphone providers for 800 # calls. In essence, the terms of 96-439 were oroginally spelled out in FCC order 96-388 issued in September that stated an interexchange carrier that carries the 800 # call MUST pay the payphone owner 35 cents as compensation. You would think that if you use a payphone to make a call, you pay for it, right? However, what the FCC ordered was that compensation for the use of a payphone come from the RECIPIENT of the call, not the originator. Next Oct, payphones will be required to send a special network identifier on each call, and of course, the first thing 800 # service provider is going to do is block payphone originated calls. So forget about the days when you could run to a payphone and send a 1-800-SKY-PAGE, check your voicemail, etc. One would have thought it would be been rather straight forward to ask a caller to drop a coin in to make an 800 # call, but that's not the way it worked out. --Geoff P.S. Also in the order was the deregulation of payphone local calls, read: expect rates to go up!
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