Part 68 - Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone Network  


Subpart A - General
§ 68.1 - Purpose.
§ 68.2 - Scope.
§ 68.3 - Definitions.
§ 68.4 - Hearing aid-compatible telephones.
§ 68.5 - Waivers.
§ 68.6 - Telephones with volume control.
§ 68.7 - Technical criteria for terminal equipment.
Subpart B - Conditions on Use of Terminal Equipment
§ 68.100 - General.
§ 68.102 - Terminal equipment approval requirement.
§ 68.104 - Means of connection.
§ 68.105 - Minimum point of entry (MPOE) and demarcation point.
§ 68.106 - Notification to provider of wireline telecommunications.
§ 68.108 - Incidence of harm.
§ 68.110 - Compatibility of the public switched telephone network and terminal equipment.
§ 68.112 - Hearing aid-compatibility.
§ 68.160 - Designation of Telecommunication Certification Bodies (TCBs).
§ 68.162 - Requirements for Telecommunication Certification Bodies.
Subpart C - Terminal Equipment Approval Procedures
§ 68.200 - Application for equipment registration.
§ 68.201 - Connection to the public switched telephone network.
§ 68.202 - Public notice.
§ 68.204 - Comments and replies.
§ 68.206 - Grant of application.
§ 68.208 - Dismissal and return of application.
§ 68.210 - Denial of application.
§ 68.211 - Terminal equipment approval revocation procedures.
§ 68.212 - Assignment of equipment registration.
§ 68.213 - Installation of other than “fully protected” non-system simple customer premises wiring.
§ 68.214 - Changes in other than “fully protected” premises wiring that serves fewer than four subscriber access lines.
§ 68.215 - Installation of other than “fully protected” system premises wiring that serves more than four subscriber access lines.
§ 68.216 - Repair of registered terminal equipment and registered protective circuitry.
§ 68.218 - Responsibility of the party acquiring equipment authorization.
§ 68.220 - Cross reference.
§ 68.224 - Notice of non-hearing aid compatibility.
§ 68.226 - Registration of digital systems components.
Subpart D - Conditions for Terminal Equipment Approval
§ 68.300 - Labeling requirements.
§ 68.302 - Environmental simulation.
§ 68.304 - Leakage current limitations.
§ 68.306 - Hazardous voltage limitations.
§ 68.308 - Signal power limitations.
§ 68.310 - Transverse balance limitations.
§ 68.312 - On-hook impedance limitations.
§ 68.314 - Billing protection.
§ 68.316 - Hearing aid compatibility: Technical requirements.
§ 68.317 - Hearing aid compatibility volume control: technical standards.
§ 68.318 - Additional limitations.
§ 68.320 - Supplier's Declaration of Conformity.
§ 68.321 - Location of responsible party.
§ 68.322 - Changes in name, address, ownership or control of responsible party.
§ 68.324 - Supplier's Declaration of Conformity requirements.
§ 68.326 - Retention of records.
§ 68.346 - Description of testing facilities.
§ 68.348 - Changes in equipment and circuitry subject to a Supplier's Declaration of Conformity.
§ 68.350 - Revocation of Supplier's Declaration of Conformity.
§ 68.354 - Numbering and labeling requirements for terminal equipment.
Appendix A - Bibliography
Subpart E - Complaint Procedures
§ 68.400 - Content.
§ 68.402 - Amended complaints.
§ 68.404 - Number of copies.
§ 68.406 - Service.
§ 68.408 - Answers to complaints and amended complaints.
§ 68.410 - Replies to answers or amended answers.
§§ 68.400--68.412 - [Reserved]
§ 68.412 - Defective pleadings.
§ 68.414 - Hearing aid-compatibility: Enforcement.
§ 68.415 - Hearing aid-compatibility and volume control informal complaints.
§ 68.417 - Informal complaints; form and content.
§ 68.418 - Procedure; designation of agents for service.
§ 68.419 - Answers to informal complaints.
§ 68.420 - Review and disposition of informal complaints.
§ 68.423 - Actions by the Commission on its own motion.
Subpart F - ACS Telephonic CPE
§ 68.500 - Specifications.
§ 68.501 - Authorization procedures.
§ 68.502 - Labeling, warranty, instructions, and notice of revocation of approval.
§ 68.503 - Complaint procedures.
§ 68.504 - Administrative Council on Terminal Attachments.
§ 68.506 - Configurations used to connect multi-line communications systems such as Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and key telephone systems.
Subpart G - Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments
§ 68.602 - Sponsor of the Administrative Council for Terminal Attachments.
§ 68.604 - Requirements for submitting technical criteria.
§ 68.608 - Publication of technical criteria.
§ 68.610 - Database of terminal equipment.
§ 68.612 - Labels on terminal equipment.
§ 68.614 - Oppositions and appeals.