access charge

American  

noun

1. a fee charged to long-distance telephone companies and their customers by a local telephone company for use of its lines.

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access charge

The national grid access charge has been raised to 0.18 ringgit/kWh from 0.14 ringgit previously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Helmholtz Association has provided the funding for the open access charge.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

Calls to the long number will be charged 15p plus your network access charge.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2022

“He’s fixing a 21st-century problem with a 19th-century approach,” said Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management who favors the market access charge.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2019

Those savings, though, will be at least partly offset by a long-debated federal access charge of $1 per month that begins showing up in June on phone bills of millions of Americans.

From Time Magazine Archive

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