INTERNATIONAL  TELECOMMUNICATION  UNION

		     ITU-T RECOMMENDATION SUMMARY


Rec. No. : D.40

Title :	General tariff principles applicable to telegrams exchanged in 
	the international public telegram service

Study Group : III - Tariff and Accounting Principles

Version : Revised

Date of adoption : 1992

Notes :	


Every telegram gives rise, at acceptance and on delivery, to fixed 
costs which are practically the same for all telegrams, except for the 
telegrams bearing the service indication "urgent", and, at 
transmission, to costs which vary with the number of words. The per 
word tariff system, under which each telegram is charged for 
exclusively according to the number of words, makes no clear 
distinction between these two types of cost. On the other hand, both 
tariff components are taken into account in the binary telegraph 
tariff system which consists of a rate per telegram, and a rate per 
word, as indicated in § A.24 of Recommendation D.000.

Recommendation D.40 describes the two tariff systems, leaving to 
Administrations the choice of the system they wish to apply.

Recommendation D.40 does not apply to telegrams for which accounting 
rates and/or collection charges are established on another basis, and 
for which the appropriate provisions are being drawn up separately.



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