NCIC Backs GTL Petition for Reconsideration of ICS Rules

"Reconsider its reliance on the endpoint" for an inmate calling service call to determine whether it's intrastate or interstate, NCIC Inmate Communications asked the FCC in docket 12-375, responding to Global Tel*Link's petition for reconsideration of the new standard (see 2012030056). NCIC's reply posted Friday supported GTL's petition and urged the commission to follow its precedent of relying on the area code of a recipient's phone number. GTL said the new rule is "an exercise of unreasonable rulemaking, issued without consideration of the feasibility of its implementation or its effect on state authority."