Instruction manual

Page 1430 of 3156 Equal Access Compliance
553-3001-306 Standard 10.00 January 2002
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements
FCC Part 68 regulations require that any equipment or software manufactured
or imported on or after April 17, 1992, and installed by any aggregator, must
allow all users to use Equal Access codes to selectively access the long
distance carrier of their choice. As defined in FCC docket 90-313, an
aggregator is any business that, in the ordinary course of operations, makes
telephones available to the public, or to transient users of the premises, for
interstate telephone calls using a provider of operator services. Aggregators
include hotels or motels, hospitals, universities, airports, gas stations, or pay
telephone owners.
Aggregators, although they must allow callers access to any long distance
caller, are permitted to block calls selectively. Selective equal access lets
aggregators choose to block direct-dialed calls that result in charges to the
originating telephone. Aggregators cannot block operator-assisted calls.
Nortel Networks complies with the FCC Equal Access rules in dockets
90-313, 91-35, and their appendixes.
Equal Access dialing plans
X11 software supports Equal Access dialing plans as follows:
• It allows operator-assisted North American and international dialing.
— CAC + 0
— CAC + 0 + (NPA) + NXX + XXXX, and
— CAC + 01 + CC + NN.
• It allows or denies direct North American and international dialing.
— CAC + 1 + (NPA) + NXX + XXXX, and
— CAC + 011 + CC + NN.