Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 165 - Corporation Commission
Chapter 58 - Facilitation and Provisioning of Payphone Service
Subchapter 11 - Obligations of Telecommunications Service Providers
Section 165:58-11-1 - Obligations of telecommunications service providers to facilitate the provisioning of payphone service

Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 165:58-11-1

Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024

(a) A listing, or no listing, in the local telephone white page directory will be provided to the payphone service provider on request, at no charge, for each line utilized by the payphone service provider.

(b) Access for payphone service providers must be available in all exchanges and service areas where facilities are available.

(c) Until such time as an applicable payphone access line tariff is approved, access by payphone service providers to the incumbent LEC's network will be provided by means of a special service arrangement based on the incumbent LEC's business access line tariff rate.

(d) Incoming call screening and outgoing call screening must be provided where and when it is technically feasible, and in any event not later than July 1, 1998.

(e) The telecommunications service provider shall not initiate a billable maintenance service call or take any other billable action in response to a trouble report on a payphone until such time as requested by the payphone owner or authorized agent.

(f) Directory assistance provided to a payphone service provider by a telecommunications service provider shall be on the same terms, conditions and rates that the telecommunications service provider provides such service to itself or its payphone service affiliate or subsidiary. Telecommunications service providers shall not be required to provide such service to payphones accessible to inmates of confinement facilities.

(g) The telecommunications service provider must provide to payphone service providers who use automated call completion technology to complete operator service calls the same services and information that the telecommunications service provider provides to interexchange carriers, on the same rates, terms and conditions.

(h) Telecommunications service providers must offer direct dialed international call blocking ("011+" and "101XXXX+011+") where technically feasible.

(i) The telecommunications service provider shall only provide access lines to the payphone service provider after a copy of the Certificate of Convenience and Necessity has been provided. Additionally, the telecommunications service provider shall only provide access lines to a payphone provider in the same name as that listed on the Certificate of Convenience and Necessity and that shall be the account billing name.

Added at 14 Ok Reg 21, eff 9-30-96 (emergency); Added at 14 Ok Reg 1261, eff 5-15-97; Amended at 15 Ok Reg 3106, eff 7-15-98; Amended at 16 Ok Reg 2333, eff 7-1-99

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