Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 52, December 27, 2024
a) Each aggregator or operator service
provider shall ensure that any of its equipment allows the consumer to use
equal access codes to obtain access, where available, from the central office
to the consumer's desired provider of operator services. The requirements for
the unblocking of access for intrastate telephone calls are as follows:
1) All equipment shall allow the consumer to
use access codes other than equal access code to gain access to the consumer's
desired provider of operator services;
2) Each pay telephone shall allow the
consumer to use equal access codes to gain access to the consumer's desired
provider of operator services;
3)
All existing 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 allow
the consumer to use equal access codes to obtain access to the consumer's
desired provider of operator services;
4) All new equipment or software that is
installed by an 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;
5) All existing 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 allow the consumer to use equal access codes to obtain
access to the consumer's desired provider of operator services;
6) All equipment not included in subsections
(a)(2) - (5) 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.
b) The requirements of subsection (a) do not
apply to the use by consumers of equal access code dialing sequences that
result in billing to the originating telephone.
c) The Commission shall grant a petition for
a waiver from unblocking requirements of this Section when the FCC has granted
the petitioner a waiver of the requirements of
47 C.F.R.
64.704.
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 provide an "800" or "950" access code number. If
a local exchange carrier that provides operator services is not accessible from
all aggregator phones in its service area, then the local exchange carrier
shall provide an "800" or "950" access code number.