FCC Seeks Comment by Jan. 7 on Securus Waiver Request

The FCC Wireline Bureau is seeking comment on a Securus petition to waive rules that inmate calling services calls be charged to customers on a per minute basis: Comments are due Jan. 7, replies Jan. 21, in docket 12-375. Securus says it started piloting subscriptions for intrastate calls in 2020, which it now offers at eight correctional facilities. “Subscribers pay a flat monthly fee for up to 100 calls per month or 25 calls per week,” said a public notice Friday: The ICS provider asserts the program “is in jeopardy because it ‘cannot definitively determine if a call is intrastate when a subscription plan call is made’ since many of the calls are ‘made to wireless phones whose exact physical location is difficult to determine.’”