Telmate Seeks FCC Bureau Clarification of Scope of Interim ICS Rate Caps
Telmate asked the FCC Wireline Bureau to clarify whether interim rate caps for inmate calling services apply only to interstate rates and not also to intrastate rates for the first time. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit…
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recently stayed FCC interstate and intrastate rate caps of 11 to 22 cents per minute under a 2015 ICS order, but left in place a 2013 order's interim rate caps of 21 and 25 cents/minute on interstate inmate calling services and a 2015 change removing the word "interstate" from the ICS definition (see 1603070055). A bureau "clarification is necessary because, while the Commission’s public statements appear to confirm that Section 64.6030 simply preserves the interstate interim rate caps established in the 2013 Order, counsel to the Wright Petitioners has asserted that these caps should now apply to intrastate rates as well," Telmate said in a filing Friday in docket 12-375. "That result would negatively affect both providers and States, which would suffer the dramatic and immediate site commission (revenue) reductions otherwise avoided by the D.C. Circuit’s stay." Telmate asked the bureau for an answer by Wednesday, the day before Section 64.6030 is scheduled to become effective for prisons.