Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Federal Communications Commission 47 CFR Part 64 [CC Docket No. 96-128; FCC 02-292] AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission implemented certain aspects of per-payphone compensation pursuant to a 1997 remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. To implement the remand, the Commission established a new default compensation amount per payphone per month for access code and subscriber toll-free calls, allocated this monthly amount among the designated payors of per-payphone compensation, resolved some compensation offset issues, determined issues regarding the valuation of payphone assets transferred by local exchange carriers to a separate affiliate or division, and resolved a number of issues raised in petitions for reconsideration. DATES: Effective January 2, 2003. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lynne Milne, Wireline Competition Bureau, Pricing Policy Division, (202) 418-1520. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Fifth Order on Reconsideration and Order on Remand (Order) in CC Docket No. 96-128, adopted on October 17, 2002, and released on October 23, 2002. The complete text of this Order is available for public inspection Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Reference Information Center, Room CY-A257, 445 Twelfth Street, SW., Washington, DC 205…