Goto Section: 64.703 | 64.705 | Table of Contents
FCC 64.704
Revised as of October 1, 2006
Goto Year:2005 |
2007
Sec. 64.704 Call blocking prohibited.
(a) Each aggregator shall ensure that each of its telephones presubscribed
to a provider of operator services allows the consumer to use “800” and
“950” access code numbers to obtain access to the provider of operator
services desired by the consumer.
(b) Each provider of operator services shall:
(1) Ensure, by contract or tariff, that each aggregator for which such
provider is the presubscribed provider of operator services is in compliance
with the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (c) of this section; and
(2) Withhold payment (on a location-by-location basis) of any compensation,
including commissions, to aggregators if such provider reasonably believes
that the aggregator is blocking access to interstate common carriers in
violation of paragraphs (a) or (c) of this section.
(c) Each aggregator shall, by the earliest applicable date set forth in this
paragraph, ensure that any of its equipment presubscribed to a provider of
operator services allows the consumer to use equal access codes to obtain
access to the consumer's desired provider of operator services.
(1) Each pay telephone shall, within six (6) months of the effective date of
this paragraph, allow the consumer to use equal access codes to obtain
access to the consumer's desired provider of operator services.
(2) All equipment that is technologically capable of identifying the dialing
of an equal access code followed by any sequence of numbers that will result
in billing to the originating telephone and that is technologically capable
of blocking access through such dialing sequences without blocking access
through other dialing sequences involving equal access codes, shall, within
six (6) months of the effective date of this paragraph or upon installation,
whichever is sooner, allow the consumer to use equal access codes to obtain
access to the consumer's desired provider of operator services.
(3) All equipment or software that is manufactured or imported on or after
April 17, 1992, and installed by any aggregator shall, immediately upon
installation by the aggregator, allow the consumer to use equal access codes
to obtain access to the consumer's desired provider of operator services.
(4) All equipment that can be modified at a cost of no more than $15.00 per
line to be technologically capable of identifying the dialing of an equal
access code followed by any sequence of numbers that will result in billing
to the originating telephone and to be technologically capable of blocking
access through such dialing sequences without blocking access through other
dialing sequences involving equal access codes, shall, within eighteen (18)
months of the effective date of this paragraph, allow the consumer to use
equal access codes to obtain access to the consumer's desired provider of
operator services.
(5) All equipment not included in paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2), (c)(3), or
(c)(4) of this section shall, no later than April 17, 1997, allow the
consumer to use equal access codes to obtain access to the consumer's
desired provider of operator services.
(6) This paragraph does not apply to the use by consumers of equal access
code dialing sequences that result in billing to the originating telephone.
(d) All providers of operator services, except those employing a
store-and-forward device that serves only consumers at the location of the
device, shall establish an “800” or “950” access code number within six (6)
months of the effective date of this paragraph.
(e) The requirements of this section shall not apply to CMRS aggregators and
providers of CMRS operator services.
[ 56 FR 18523 , Apr. 23, 1991, as amended at 56 FR 40799 , Aug. 16, 1991; 57 FR 34260 , Aug. 4, 1992; 63 FR 43041 , Aug. 11, 1998]
Goto Section: 64.703 | 64.705
Goto Year: 2005 |
2007
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