Access Charges
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	The monthly service fee that consumers pay for local telephone service historically has not been high enough to cover all the booked costs of the local telephone company in operating and maintaining the local telephone network. Part of these costs are recovered instead through charges to long distance companies, who use the local networks in completing their long distance calls. These charges to long distance companies are called "access charges" and are part of the long distance companies' costs of providing long distance service.		English to French English to German English to Italian English to Portuguese English to Spanish French to English German to English Italian to English Spanish to English Portuguese to English Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
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