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AT&T NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL EXCHANGE GUIDEBOOK Original Page 5.0.1
EFFECTIVE: December 1, 2005
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A7. COIN TELEPHONE SERVICE
A7.4 Access Line Service For Payphone Service Provider Telephones
A7.4.1 General
A. Access Line Service for Payphone Service Provider (PSP) Telephones, and SMARTLine ® service for Public Telephone
Access in A107.8 of this Tariff, are exchange line services directly connected to the public network provided at the request of
the subscriber for telecommunications use by the general public at locations accessible to the general public. Extensions of the
Access Line Service for PSPs and SMARTLine
® service lines are not permitted, except as provided in confinement facilities.
B. An Access Line Provider (ALP) is the provider of PSP access lines or PSP trunks for PSP instruments as authorized by G.S.
62-110(c) or as otherwise provided by Commission rule or the North Carolina General Statutes.
C. PSP lines are provided for use with both PSP noncoin-operated pay telephones and PSP coin-operated pay telephones, as well
as PSP equipment or processes used for the resale and transmittal of voice or data over the public switched network (such as
public facsimile services as defined in Section A1. of this Tariff.)
D. Access Line Service for PSPs is provided on a flat rate basis.
E. The Company will not be responsible for the operation, maintenance, coin refund (With the exception of Coin Refund and
Repair Referral Service provided in A7.10 of this Tariff) or coin collection of any PSP instrument it does not provide nor will
Company employees offer PSP instructions for those instruments not provided by the Company.
F. Access Line Service for PSPs is provided subject to the condition that telephone messages (local and long distance) placed
from stations which are accessible to the public are completed over PSP lines and SMARTLine ® service lines (or other Public
or Semipublic lines). Where Access Line Service for PSPs and SMARTLine ® service are furnished, any type or grade of
business service offered regularly at that location may be furnished in addition, provided such business service is confined to
locations solely for use by the particular establishment.
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