Wireline

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The “true motivation” for blocking certain inmate calls is financial, Millicorp told FCC officialsnFriday: “to avoid the loss in revenue when an inmate call is placed to a local number rather than a longdistancennumber” (http://bit.ly/18heDT5). Inmate calling service (ICS) providers are using a “pretext”nwhen they cite security arguments, Millicorp said. The company, which owns the VoIP calling servicen“ConsCallHome,” related several recent reports from its customers of call blocking incidents, including annallegation from one ICS provider that “Millicorp is a ‘fraud.’” There “remains a need for regulatory certaintynregarding the permissible scope of call blocking activities,” Millcorp said. The company asked thencommission to clarify to ICS providers that it is “not permissible to block inmate calls to Millicorpassignednlocal telephone numbers merely because the telephone numbers have NPA-NXX codes that arenlocal to the prison facilities but terminate to the customers’ geographically remote home addresses.”nMillicorp also said it resolved its inmate call blocking dispute with Securus in an “amicable” manner, asndirected by the FCC as a condition for approving a transfer of control of Securus’s operating subsidiariesnfrom one holding company to another (CD April 30 p5).