A bill relating to universal telephone service.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a system of charges to compensate exchange common carriers for exchange access and to change the system of jurisdictional separation of property and expenses in force on the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the FCC to ascertain and apportion, by regulation, the costs incurred by exchange carriers to provide exchange access. Requires such regulation to provide for the ascertainment and apportionment of the costs of exchange access between exchange (local) service and interexchange (long distance) service in a manner that ensures the universal availability of basic communications service at reasonable rates. Requires the FCC to ensure that the costs of nontraffic-sensitive facilities used to provide exchange access are allocated to interexchange service in a specified ratio. Directs the FCC to establish uniform practices that ensure that the costs allocated to interexchange service are recovered from interexchange carriers and customers of interexchange services. Requires that an exchange carrier retain any terminal equipment which it provided on December 31, 1982, and conti…