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Securus Challenges CPUC Interim ICS Rate Cap

Another prison phone provider asked the California Public Utilities Commission to reconsider its decision to set an interim 7 cents per minute intrastate rate cap for incarcerated persons communications services (IPCS) and eliminate some fees. Securus sought rehearing Wednesday after…

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NCIC Inmate Communications did so Tuesday (see 2109210080). The CPUC decision in docket R.20-10-002 contains “substantial errors of fact and law, lacking any evidence or analysis of providers’ costs to provision IPCS in California, and undermining the Commission’s ability to achieve its goals of ensuring that incarcerated persons have access to IPCS at affordable rates.”