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Clear ICS Commission Payment Rules 'Vital,' Securus Says

It’s “vital” that the FCC clearly state its decision on commissions paid by inmate calling service providers to correctional facilities in the ongoing ICS rulemaking (see 1410230026), Securus Technologies CEO Richard Smith and Vice President Dennis Reinhold told Commissioner Mignon…

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Clyburn and her aide Rebekah Goodheart; Daniel Alvarez, an aide to Chairman Tom Wheeler; and Lynne Engledow, deputy chief of the Wireline Bureau Pricing Division, said an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 12-375. ICS providers are required to pay the commission in most of its contracts, and to be able to renegotiate the contracts, “the law must be clear,” the Securus officials said at the March 19 meeting. They made the same argument to Travis Litman, an aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel in a separate meeting the same day, said another filing.