FCC Denies GTL Bid for More Time To Scrap Mininum Balance Requirement
The FCC Wireline Bureau denied a Global Tel*Link waiver request seeking more time to implement a "no minimum balance requirement" for prisons in the agency's 2015 inmate calling service order (see 1510220059). "GTL did not provide sufficient justification to warrant…
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a temporary waiver of section 64.6100(a) of the Commission’s rules, which prohibits inmate calling service (ICS) providers from requiring end users to deposit a minimum amount of money in a debit or prepaid calling account," said a bureau order issued Monday in docket 12-375. GTL and other ICS providers must thus eliminate minimum deposit requirements by Thursday for inmates in prisons they serve, the bureau said. GTL had sought an extra 90 days to implement the requirement for prisons so it would correspond with the June 20 deadline for implementing the rule for jails (see 1601130066).