This is a much better article, thank you. Essentially this is the same as hotel phone rates, they also used to be very high by adding margin to the carrier ser

This is a much better article, thank you. Essentially this is the same as hotel phone rates, they also used to be very high by adding margin to the carrier services, but were part of the profitability of running a hotel. Mobile phones disrupted that source of income for hospitality, but with a captive customer the real issue is this commission now that telco rates have collapsed. As it is a fee for accessing telecommunication services, it sounds reasonable that the FCC should be able to regulate the commission, but the jail telcos have existing contracts in place under existing rules with the prisons and the FCC failed to address this.