Sprint Asks FCC to End Payphone Audit Requirement
Sprint filed a petition at the FCC asking it to lift a requirement that carriers submit an audit of their payphone call tracking system every year. Rule 64.1320(f) “requires an annual certification that there have been no material changes to…
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the completing carrier’s compliance with the criteria underlying the previous year’s audit report,” Sprint said. “This, in essence, requires a complete audit each year.” The company said the FCC should waive this requirement especially due to the dramatic decline in calls from payphones. “Sprint projects that the costs of the audit alone will be approximately 15 percent of the per-call compensation Sprint paid in 2016,” the filing said. “That is 15 percent of the compensation paid, not Sprint’s profit.” Some details like the cost to the carrier were redacted from the filing in docket 96-128.