Aventiv Seeks Approval of Securus ICS Petition
Aventiv Technologies asked the FCC to grant its subsidiary Securus' petition to waive FCC rules on inmate calling services requiring interstate and intermediate calls to be charged at a per-minute rate in a meeting with Commissioner Brendan Carr, said an…
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ex parte posted Tuesday in docket 12-375 (see 2201100037). Securus sought a waiver to continue a subscription plan pilot program. The pilot "demonstrated an increase in the communication time between incarcerated persons and their loved ones at lower cost than the commission’s interim rate caps and below the facilities’ existing rates on average," Aventiv said. "Many family members" of incarcerated individuals have asked that the program be restarted.