---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 64.1300"
title: "47"
number: "64.1300"
heading: "Payphone compensation obligation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/64.1300"
---

# §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)](#b) of this section, the carrier is obligated to compensate the payphone service provider at a per-call rate of $.494.

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 3014, Jan. 19, 2006]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 154, 201, 202, 217, 218, 220, 222, 225, 226, 227, 227b, 228, 251(a), 251(e), 254(k), 255, 262, 276, 403(b)(2)(B), (c), 616, 620, 716, 1401-1473, unless otherwise noted; Pub. L. 115-141, Div. P, sec. 503, 132 Stat. 348, 1091; Pub. L. 117-338, 136 Stat. 6156.

### Source

Source: 28 FR 13239, Dec. 5, 1963, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[71 FR 3014, Jan. 19, 2006]