The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents minute for prisons and large ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has decided to let prisons and jails keep charging high prices for ...

Ultimately, the Bureau chief said that it's in the public's best interests to delay the price caps. And he's right.

"The new call rates will be $0.06 per minute for prisons and large jails, $0.07 for medium jails, $0.09 for small jails, and $0.12 for very small jails, and as low as $0.11/minute for video calls ...

The Federal Communications Commission will suspend the enforcement of a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and ...

Under the new rules, the cost of a 15-minute phone call will drop to 90 cents from as much as $11.35 in large jails and, in small jails, to $1.35 from $12.10.” ...

FCC closes “final loopholes” that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high FCC wasn't able to cap intrastate prices until Congress granted new authority.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted this week to lower the cost of keeping in touch with the incarcerated. "The Federal Communications Commission today voted to end exorbitant phone ...

At small jails, a 15-minute call that would cost more than $12 will be lowered to $1.35. There will also be a per-minute rate cap for video calls. Thursday’s vote comes after President Joe Biden ...