Public Interest Payphones
The Commission seeks proposals for a Public Interest Payphone Provider or Providers to supply, install and maintain Public Interest Payphones and to arrange for local, intrastate and interstate service and remit recurring payments for those services.
The Maine Legislature established a Public Interest Payphone (PIP) program in 2005 to provide telephones in areas where traditional public telephones would not otherwise be deployed and in which a telephone will further public health, safety and welfare. PIPs are coinless phones that allow free local calls as well as the ability to place 911, prepaid calling card, collect, or credit card long distance calls. The PIP program is funded by telephone ratepayers through Maines Universal Service Fund.
