Prison Calling Executives Meet Carr and Simington Aides

Aventiv Technologies CEO Dave Abel and other executives from the company and subsidiary Securus met with aides to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Nathan Simington on the FCC’s 2024 incarcerated people’s communication services (IPCS) order. Securus opposes part of the order, which it’s challenging in federal court (see 2502140049). The executives discussed “pending petitions for reconsideration, various appeals of the 2024 IPCS Order and related ongoing proceedings,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 12-375. “We also discussed the effect of the … Order on the state of the IPCS marketplace and our expectations.”