{"id":2607,"date":"2014-09-23T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2024-08-14T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:59:55","slug":"intrastate-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/intrastate-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired of corporate stalling, petitioners submit prison phone companies’ own data to FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been seeking information on the inter<\/i>state rates charged by the prison phone companies, but the companies have been stalling. Now the FCC is considering regulation of intra<\/i>state rates as well. Martha Wright and her fellow petitioners don’t expect the companies to cooperate here either, so the petitioners took the task up themselves and submitted the companies’ publicly disclosed rates to the FCC:\n<\/p>\n

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\nWhile the provided information is not exhaustive, it does illustrate the widely-divergent rates for the three classes of Intrastate ICS calls. The wide range of rates cannot be explained solely by looking at whether a call is local, IntraLATA, or InterLATA. Moreover, since most every ICS call is routed to calling centers outside the originating state, the artificial differences in rates among Local, IntraLATA and InterLATA calls are simply unnecessary. While ICS providers have previously attempted to divert the FCC\u2019s attention from reviewing their tariffed rates, in light of the ICS providers\u2019 past refusal to provide this information, and the fact that these providers went to the extreme measure of obtaining a court order staying the effectiveness of [the FCC’s request for information published in] 47 C.F.R. \u00a764.6060 so that they would not have to provide this information, the ICS providers cannot now argue that the FCC should merely ignore the publically-available information.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe full filing with the attached rates is available in 7 parts on the FCC’s website — take a look at the companies’ disclosures yourself:\n<\/p>\n