Comm Daily® Notebook

摘要

The FCC Wireline Bureau declined to stay the FCC inmate calling reform order Thursday.rnGlobal Tel*Link and Securus, top-two inmate calling service (ICS) providers, had asked the bureaurnto stay the decision pending judicial review. Bureau Chief Julie Veach said the ICS providers werernunlikely to succeed on the merits of their challenge, rejecting arguments that the FCC didn't providernadequate notice that it contemplated a cost-based rate cap structure (http://fcc.us/17NNM4z). Contraryrnto their characterization, "the adopted regulatory framework does not constitute traditional raternof return regulation," which uses a "complex tariff filing process," Veach said. Generally, the ICSrnproviders also failed to prove the public interest supports grant of their stay petitions, the bureaurnchief said. Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said she was "pleased that the Wireline Competition Bureaurndenied requests to indefinitely stay or hold in abeyance reforms to provide just, reasonable andrnfair rates to inmates and their families." Clyburn, who was acting chairwoman when the originalrnorder was approved, said she looks forward to working with the other commissioners "to adopt permanentrnrate caps to ensure that inmate calling service phone calls are just and reasonable as requiredrnby the statute.”