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Monopoly cracking? FCC rules that telecoms can't charge $14 per minute for prisoner phone calls

2015-11-04 03:37:35| Telecom - Topix.net

The Federal Communications Commission is about to get hit with a lawsuit from a gaggle of telecommunications companies who are fighting for the right to charge prison inmates a whopping $14 a minute to call relatives. In a recent decision, [PDF] the FCC voted to cap the prices prisoners pay for phone calls.

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