Duty LXD-8570
Provides telecom services, in Alaska
Private pay telephones: compatibility with hearing-aid devices and accessibility to persons with disabilitiesin force2 lines
3 AAC 53.830(f)-(g) · Read the law's page
- If you provide private pay telephone service, make each private pay telephone compatible with hearing-aid devices (3 AAC 53.830(f)).
- Make each private pay telephone accessible to persons with disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (title 42, sections 12101 to 12213 of the United States Code), 36 C.F.R. 1191 and 28 C.F.R. 36, in effect as of (3 AAC 53.830(g)).
Telecommunications relay service for subscribers who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech disabledin force6 lines
Alaska Stat. Sec. 42.05.296; 3 AAC 51.010-51.199 · Read the law's page
- This binds the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, which must adopt the regulations (AS 42.05.296(a)), and through those regulations every provider of local intrastate telecommunication services, but not intrastate interexchange carriers (3 AAC 51.010(a)).
- If you provide local intrastate telecommunication services in Alaska, list the relay service surcharge as a separate line item on bills for service, titled "Universal Access Surcharge" (3 AAC 51.040(e)).
- Collect the surcharge for each voice line from subscribers of telecommunications service (3 AAC 51.040(f)).
- Pay the surcharge revenues you collect to the relay service provider by the 10th calendar day of each month, or the next working day if the 10th falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or bank holiday, with a report of the number of wireless and wireline voice lines to which a surcharge was assessed (3 AAC 51.040(k)(1)).
- If you are the relay service provider certificated by the commission, file a tariff that incorporates the terms and conditions specified in your application, and file a monthly report with the commission (3 AAC 51.030(a)).
- In that monthly report, show the quality of service offered to customers and its conformance with the federal speed-of-answer and call-blocking standards in 47 C.F.R. 64.604(b)(2) (3 AAC 51.030(a)(3)).