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access charge

The charge imposed by a communications service or telephone company for the use of its network.
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NTT) to implement a 10% cut in access charges new common carriers pay for using their phone networks, ministry officials said Friday.
Telecom min. to demand 10% cut in NTT's access charges
There is one important reason why local regional monopolies have not opened up - ``network access charges.
ADVANTAGE OF LOCAL PHONE PROVIDERS NEEDS TO END : LOCAL VIEW
Demonstrates how the variability of access charges are suppressing competition from pure retail operations by squeezing margins at the retail end
Research and Markets: View the German Utilities Study Today
20 a month to make up the money lost from access charges and other subsidies.
PHONE RATES COULD SOON CLIMB : `SOPHIE'S CHOICE'
In doing so, the FCC rejected AT&T's unilateral decision to stop paying access charges for calls that traveled -- if only for a brief distance -- over AT&T's Internet-protocol backbone.
SBC Applauds FCC's ''Correct, Obvious and Only Answer'' on AT&T Access Charge Avoidance Scheme
This decision flies in the face of pro-competitive rulings by the Colorado PUC and the Federal Communications Commission, which specifically exempt Internet telephony companies from paying access charges," said Martin McDermott, President and Chief Operating Officer of IP Services, the defendant in the case.
IP Services Calls Colorado Court Ruling 'Reinstatement of Monopoly Telephone Service'
ALTS has long understood the desire to reduce the levels of access charges paid by long distance companies.
ALTS Press Statement On FCC's Approval of Calls Plan
The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) today said a pair of bills to head off access charges for Internet connections will save hundreds of dollars a year for Internet users.
ITAA Says House Bills Will Stretch Dollars for Internet Consumers
The Association for Local Telecommunications Services (ALTS), the leading national trade association representing facilities-based competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), today voiced strong support for a lawsuit filed by 10 CLECs against AT&T and Sprint asking for more than $10 million in past due payments of access charges.
ALTS Supports CLECs' Lawsuit Against AT&T and Sprint for Refusing to Pay Access Charges; Long Distance Companies Must Pay Access Charges Owed to Competitive Providers
In addition, Cable & Wireless outlined plans for the Commission to go beyond the CALLS proposal and take additional steps to reduce access charges to cost-based rates.
Cable & Wireless Urges FCC to Use CALLS Framework to Reduce Access Charges to Cost
They needed help to establish their internal business procedures to properly audit access charges.
InformationView Solutions Corporation creates InformationView Services Corporation Subsidiary
9, 1998--Railtrack PLC is disappointed by today's statement from the Acting Rail Regulator setting out his preliminary conclusions on the financial framework for the periodic review of Railtrack's access charges.
Railtrack Responds to the Regulator On Its Financial Framework
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