The FCC prison calling order violates the Communication...
The FCC prison calling order violates the Communication Act’s requirement that inmate calling service providers be fairly compensated, Pay Tel told an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Friday, said an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1cDGn7B). “The Order’s failure to account for…
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the cost of providing ICS in jails will make the provision of ICS in jails economically unsustainable and many high cost small to medium size jail facilities will be left without a service provider.” For Pay Tel, 73 percent of its 160 client locations have at least one category of intrastate calls in which average revenue per minute is below cost, it said. “The total amount by which intrastate capped rates are below cost” is nearly $3 million, about 11 percent of Pay Tel’s revenue, it said. “In this regard, the FCC’s Order violates, on its face, Section 276’s command that the Commission ‘ensure that all [ICS] providers are fairly compensated for each and every completed intrastate and interstate call.'” Pay Tel asked that the commission stay the new rules.