Ameelio CEO Meets Gomez Aides on Prison Calling Service
Ameelio CEO April Feng and others from the company met with aides to FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on Ameelio’s incarcerated persons communications service (IPCS) offering. Ameelio “explained that it is a nonprofit provider of IPCS that provides service without charge…
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to incarcerated persons or their families, but rather charges a subscription fee to prisons, jails, and other facilities to provide the services in those institutions,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 23-62. “Ameelio’s fee is based on its costs of providing service to a given facility or facilities for the estimated usage of the service by incarcerated persons in those facilities, rather than a per minute rate that increases with total minutes of use,” and it doesn’t increase “even if actual usage exceeds the estimate.”