Authorization To Operate A Public Pay Telephone Service

(1) Every owner or prospective owner, who is not a public telephone company certified by this Commission in accordance with T.C.A. § 65-4-291, of a public pay telephone instrument located in the state of Tennessee connected with or to be connected with the public network shall submit a petition for authorization to provide public pay telephone service to the Commission accompanied by the fee provided for in T.C.A. § 65-2-103. Each company or individual operating a public pay telephone service prior to July 1, 1990 and required to be authorized by this rule shall submit one petition for authorization to include all existing public pay telephone locations owned or operated by said company or individual. All petitions submitted after July 1, 1990 shall be to authorize each public pay telephone service instrument. (2) All owners, other than certified public telephone companies, of public pay telephone instruments connected to the public network by the effective date of this rule shall have until July 1 of the year in which this rule goes into effect to submit the petition required by section (1) of this rule. Public pay telephone service to commence or to be reconnected to the network after this date shall not be authorized for service until all the requirements of rules governing public pay telephone service are met. (3) Public pay telephone service shall mean the resale of local service and/or intrastate toll telephone service through customer or telephone company provided equipment which are coin-operated or coinless and whose calls are sent paid or non-sent paid.