Securus Opposes Intrastate ICS Competition Mandate
Mandating intrastate competition for inmate calling services to try to decrease rates, as FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly suggested, would cause “insurmountable difficulties,” Securus Technologies CEO Richard Smith, General Counsel Dennis Reinhold and Arent Fox’s Stephanie Joyce told O’Rielly and his…
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aide Dec. 4, said an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 12-375. After the commission’s passage of interstate rate caps, interstate inmate calls rose but intrastate calls declined, Securus officials said in the meeting and in a separate one with Commissioner Ajit Pai and an aide the same day, another ex parte said. Securus also disputed at the meetings claims by jails and prisons of their costs in providing inmate calling services to justify the continuation of commissions paid to correctional facilities. The Securus officials made the same arguments in a meeting with an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, and another with Wireline Bureau officials on the same day.