Jail Calls Get Reporting Extension to June 2
Published Date: 3/12/2025
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Summary
The FCC is updating how companies that provide phone services to people in jail report their info each year. They’re giving these companies extra time—until June 2, 2025—to file their 2025 reports with new forms and instructions. This helps make sure phone rates and services stay fair and clear for everyone involved.
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Monitoring Ban on Ancillary Fees and Site Commissions
The Commission adopted prohibitions on ancillary service charges and on site commission payments in the 2024 IPCS Order; providers could charge ancillary fees until November 19, 2024, and the Commission set staggered compliance dates for elimination of site commissions ranging from January 1, 2025 to April 1, 2026. The revised Annual Report templates now require providers to answer yes/no whether they assessed ancillary service charges or paid site commissions during the reporting period and to explain if they answer yes, to help monitor compliance.
2025 Annual Report Deadline Extended
The FCC waived the April 1, 2025 filing deadline for providers' 2025 Annual Reports and extended the deadline to June 2, 2025. IPCS providers now have until June 2, 2025 to submit the 2025 Annual Reports using the new forms and instructions.
Providers Must Report Highest Per‑Minute Rates
IPCS providers must report, for each facility, the highest per-minute audio and video rate charged during the calendar year; video IPCS rate reporting is required beginning November 19, 2024 (the effective date of the 2024 IPCS Order). If interstate and intrastate rates are identical, providers need not duplicate entries.
More Reporting on Disability Access (TRS) Availability
Providers must report, on a facility-by-facility basis, whether each of the six Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) types was available during the reporting period and the number of calls and number of complaints for each type, plus point-to-point ASL video and TTY-to-TTY calling; providers are no longer required to report the number of dropped calls. The six TRS kinds are IP Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS), Internet Protocol Relay (IP Relay), Speech-to-Speech (STS), Traditional TTY-based TRS, Video Relay Service (VRS), and Non-IP CTS.
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