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

“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

Theodore Brophy, chairman of GTE, calls the access charge "an unmanageable economic burden on those who make minimum use of long-distance service."

From Time Magazine Archive

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