*Pages 1--2 from Microsoft Word - 53914.doc* Federal Communications Commission DA 05- 3268 Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D. C. 20554 In the Matter of ) ) Request to Update Default Compensation Rate for ) WC Docket No. 03- 225 Dial- Around Calls from Payphones ) ERRATUM Released: December 22, 2005 By the Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau: 1. On August 12, 2004, the Commission released a Report and Order, FCC 04- 182, in the above-captioned proceeding. 1 This Erratum makes two corrections to that Report and Order. 2. The first sentence of paragraph 1 is corrected so that it refers to section 64.1300( d), rather than section 64.1300( c). 3. Appendix A of the Report and Order is replaced by the Appendix A attached to this Erratum. 4. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to sections 4( i) and 276 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U. S. C. §§ 154( i), 276, and sections 0.91 and 0.291 of the Commission’s rules, 47 C. F. R. §§ 0.91, 0.291, the Report and Order in the above- captioned proceeding IS AMENDED as set forth above. WIRELINE COMPETITION BUREAU Thomas J. Navin Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau 1 See Request to Update Default Compensation Rate for Dial- Around Calls from Payphones, WC Docket No. 03- 225, FCC 04- 182, Report and Order, 19 FCC Rcd 15636 (2004). 1 Federal Communications Commission DA 05- 3268 APPENDIX A The Federal Communications Commission amends 47 C. F. R. Part 64 to read as follows: § 64.1300 Payphone compensation obligation. (a) For purposes of this subpart, a Completing Carrier is a long distance carrier or a 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) of this section, the carrier is obligated to compensate the payphone service provider at a per- call rate of $. 494. 2