The FCC should not make “abrupt changes in...
The FCC should not make “abrupt changes in policy” to prison calling services “that could make existing public contracts uneconomic,” CenturyLink told agency officials Wednesday, according to an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/12Yujqa). CenturyLink “has made very large investments in…
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long-term public contracts” and it’s important the service providers be given “a fair and reasonable transition time to any newly ordered rate structure,” especially since they can’t “readily renegotiate publicly-awarded contracts,” CenturyLink said. Any commission order on inmate calling services should limit new rules to new or extended contracts, or defer the issue of existing contracts to an FNPRM, the telco said. The commission said Monday it will consider a report and order on inmate calling at its Aug. 8 meeting.