Groups Seek Redo of ICS Rates Order

United Church of Christ and Public Knowledge asked the FCC to reconsider some "legal conclusions" in its order on interim interstate inmate calling services rates (see 2105200044), said a petition for reconsideration in docket 12-375. The groups asked the commission to exclude site commissions from the rates, reconsider allowing contractually negotiated site commissions of up to 2 cents per minute, and preempt state actions allowing site commissions. Don't "allow these anti-ratepayer biases to control rates for even the interim period," the groups said. NCIC sought changes to capping third-party and single-call transactional fees, in a petition for recon also posted Monday. It asked that rates be capped at $3 for automated payments and $5.95 for live-agent services. It asked to reconsider regulating site commissions for prisons and jails with an average daily population of 1,000-plus.