§ 2913. Minimum service requirement.
(a) General rule.--All public and semipublic coin telephone stations maintained by a public utility or provided, maintained or sold in this Commonwealth by any other person, partnership, association or corporation shall, except in extraordinary circumstances, provide two-way service. The commission shall permit public coin telephones to be converted so that they are technically capable of placing, but not receiving, calls only when such conversion is necessary to protect the public safety, health and welfare and would be in the best interests of the public.
(b) Public coin telephone service by nonpublic utilities.--No public utility shall provide telephone service to any person, partnership, association or corporation for the purpose of providing public and semipublic coin service unless the coin telephone complies with subsection (a).
(c) Definition.--As used in this section the term "two-way service" means the technical capability to place and receive local and intrastate telephone calls, the conspicuous display of a telephone number at which the public coin telephone can be reached and the ability to recognize when a call is incoming.
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