ICSolutions Opposes Securus Call for FCC Site-Commission Condition on TKC Deal
Inmate Calling Solutions opposed Securus' proposed FCC condition on the planned sale of ICSolutions to TKC Holdings, which would require TKC to stop the payment of interstate site commissions to correctional authorities (see 1607050055). "The Commission should dismiss or ignore…
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Securus' Comments because the payment of site commissions to correctional facilities by inmate calling services (‘ICS’) providers is permissible under the Commission's rules," said ICSolutions in reply comments Friday in docket 16-188. "Even if site commissions were not permissible, Securus' requested condition is unrelated to the transaction or to TKC's qualifications to acquire ICSolutions and therefore is outside of the appropriate scope of this proceeding under longstanding Commission precedent." Securus took no position on the merits of the deal. FCC staff removed the TKC-Inmate Calling Solutions license-transfer application from streamlined processing so the transaction could be given further consideration, said a Wireline Bureau public notice listed in Monday's Daily Digest.