For operators of adult telephone, audio-text and talk-line services that use access codes

A code sent by email is not a code that was mailed.

Switchboard keeps every date the FCC’s defence rests on: the written notice to every carrier the line runs on, each written application and its adult age check, each access code mailed only after that check, and every cancellation, stamped the moment it is made. A monthly defence file is signed only when nothing falls short.

Open the demo See pricing

Opens in this browser with an invented talk line already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed.

Switchboard with its example records in it

Open the free demo →

The problem

Each step of the defence is a date.

Federal law makes it an offence to provide indecent telephone messages to minors, and 47 CFR 64.201 sets out the defence. The provider tells its carrier in writing, then restricts access to adults. For an access code, the code is mailed only after a written application shows the applicant is an adult, and any code is cancelled immediately on notice that it is lost, stolen, used by a minor or no longer wanted.

Mailed

access codes go out only after a written application shows the applicant is an adult.

47 CFR 64.201 →

Immediately

a code is cancelled on notice it is lost, stolen, used by a minor or no longer wanted.

47 CFR 64.201 →

In writing

the provider notifies every carrier the line runs on.

47 CFR 64.201 →

Will not issue a code the defence cannot stand behind.

A code cannot be recorded unless the written application and an adult age check are on file and dated first, and the code is mailed — not emailed, texted or read out. A cancellation slower than the house limit is flagged. The monthly defence file is refused while any carrier, code or cancellation falls short. There is no override.

How it works

Applications, cancellations, carriers

Take each application

The written application, the age check with the date of birth used and how it was checked, then the code mailed.

Cancel at once

Every notice: when, how it came in, why. “Cancel it now” stamps the time.

Notify the carriers

The written notice to every carrier, and billing notification where it applies. Sign the defence file monthly.

What it will never do

It keeps the record. It does not decide the defence.

Switchboard is the operator’s record. Whether a defence succeeds is a court’s call.

No names or addresses.Those stay with the paper application. Switchboard keeps the reference and the code’s last four digits.

No phone system link.It records codes; it does not run your line.

It is not a lawyer.A prosecution goes to one. Switchboard is the file you take with you.

It never touches a payment.The subscription is for software.

Pricing

Priced per line

Every code and every cancellation, dated.

Most operators

One line

$39/month

One adult telephone or audio-text service.

Application and age check first
Codes mailed, never emailed
Cancellations stamped

One line, yearly

$390/year

The same, two months free.

Everything in One line
Monthly defence file
Export for your lawyer

Subscription. Your bank statement says Switchboard Software. First payment refunded in full on request within 14 days. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Why must the code be mailed?

The rule’s defence for access codes is a code mailed after a written application shows the applicant is an adult. Email, text and reading it out are not that.

How fast is “immediately”?

The rule says immediately. Switchboard flags anything slower than the house limit, four hours by default.

We changed carriers.

A new carrier needs its own written notice. Switchboard flags a carrier with none.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is the file you wish you had kept.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo before the next code goes out

The invented talk line never gave its new carrier written notice, mailed one code before its age check, sent another by email, and cancelled a code a minor was using three days late. Switchboard will not sign the month.

Open the demo See pricing