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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Example Sentences

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

Industry insiders say the barge-based bid could be at a major advantage if it can avoid the fixed grid access charge which the existing power plants have to pay.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2015

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