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Securus Ordered to Give Pay-Tel Cost Study Documents

Securus’ objection to rival Pay-Tel’s request for Securus’ unredacted cost study documents on inmate calling services was rejected by the FCC Wireline Bureau, in an Oct. 1 order posted Tuesday in docket 11-10. Securus had said the “confidential information in…

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the documents is competitively sensitive, and the company will suffer “substantial and irreparable harm” if Pay Tel’s outside counsel receives them, the order said. Pay-Tel responded with sworn declarations from its president that the counsel is not involved in competitive decisionmaking, the order said. Securus had to provide Pay-Tel with the data by Oct. 6, the order said.