TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Pay Phone Customers Can Use Any Carrier: Pay telephone owners must allow customers to make long-distance calls using the carrier of their choice, but they are entitled to share the revenues, the Federal Communications Commission ruled. The commission left unanswered the question of how much compensation the phone owners should receive. Nor did the five-member panel decide a method of payment. The panel adopted rules that set a timetable for hotels, airports, hospitals and other owners of public phones to unblock direct-dial access to the long-distance service of choice.