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FCC’s Prison Payphone Rates Stayed on Appeal, Likely to Be Struck Down

January 13, 2014

Today, the D.C. Circuit stayed the rate-of-return regulations the Federal Communications Commission adopted last summer to lower interstate calling rates for prisoners in state prisons. Thus, until...


FCC Botches Prison Payphone Reform with Price Controls Unlikely to Survive in Court

August 9, 2013

Today, the Federal Communications Commission adopted an order intended to lower prison payphone phone calling rates. Commissioner Ajit Pai dissented over concerns of the legality,...


Competition, Not Price Controls, Is the Key to Prison Payphone Justice

July 10, 2013

Today, the Federal Communications Commission is holding a workshop on prison payphone rates . In December, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking...


The Ten Most Important Questions for Obama’s Nominee to Chair FCC

June 18, 2013

Today, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing (at 2:30 EDT) on President Obama’s nomination of venture capitalist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman (hashtag:...


The FCC Should Protect the Most Truly “Captive Audience” for Telecom Services: Prisoners

March 26, 2013

While the tech policy community debates Susan Crawford’s new book Captive Audience, her plea for sweeping regulation to avert a cable monopoly, a truly “captive...