California · Public Utilities Code - PUC

PUC §2889.2: No telephone corporation or provider of information-access telephone services shall charge the subscribing party for a call made to a telephone number with an “800” prefix, unless the telephone number

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Telephone corporations cannot charge subscribers for calls to 800 numbers unless certain conditions are met. The statute appears incomplete regarding those conditions.

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No telephone corporation or provider of information-access telephone services shall charge the subscribing party for a call made to a telephone number with an “800” prefix, unless the telephone number with an “800” prefix is an information service complying with the presubscription requirements imposed by Federal Communications Commission Docket No. 93–22.

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