Civil Rights Groups Worry ICS Site Commissions Could Get Around Proposed Rate Cap
Civil rights groups worry that an FCC plan to cap rates for inmate calling service calls and to limit excessive fees on such ICS calls may allow for other high fees, they told Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, an aide to Commissioner…
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Jessica Rosenworcel, aides to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, and others in meetings last week, reported a filing posted Monday in docket 12-375. ICS site commission fees and new ancillary fees could possibly be used "to circumvent the rate cap," the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council said on the meetings with representatives from MMTC, Silent Sentence Coalition and other groups. They asked the FCC to put safeguards in the order against such "predatory fees," based on commission authority to make telecom services be just and reasonable. The ICS order is set for a commissioner vote Thursday and is backed by civil rights groups (see 1510160053).