Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 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.
