Consumer Group Cites Concerns on Inmate Calling and Global Mobile Roaming Rates
The National Consumers League voiced concern about the FCC's decision not to defend intrastate inmate calling service rate caps (see 1701310061 and 1702060028). A "lack of access to affordable voice service may contribute to the problem of contraband wireless devices…
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being used in correctional facilities," NCL said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 12-375 and others on a meeting with Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and an aide. Commissioners are tentatively scheduled to vote March 23 on a draft on contraband cellphones in prisons and jails (see 1703020063). NCL also asked the FCC to refresh the record on "bill shock" due to "high" inmate mobile roaming (IMR) rates. Some wireless carriers have begun providing better IMR options, but "these plans still amount to a financial burden for far too many travelers," the group said.