Wireless Industry Not Serious About Fighting Contraband Cellphones, Pai Aide Says

FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry slammed the wireless industry Monday for not doing enough to fight contraband cellphones in correctional facilities. Berry's tweet responded to a Daily Caller story about Robert Johnson, a South Carolina corrections captain shot six times in a 2010 attack allegedly ordered from inside a South Carolina state prison using a contraband phone. Pai had Johnson address commissioners in March when the FCC took up an order on contraband phones (see 1703230056). “Unfortunately, the wireless industry isn't taking this problem seriously and is trying to obstruct effective solutions,” Berry said. CTIA didn't comment.