FCC Seeks Comment on Network Communications International Corp. Petition for Expedited Declaratory Ruling

With this Public Notice, we seek comment on a petition for expedited declaratory ruling filed by Network Communications International Corp (NCIC). In its petition, NCIC seeks a declaratory ruling that its use of a one-time informational text message to establish a billing relationship with a called party who does not answer or respond to a collect call from an inmate using NCIC’s inmate calling service (ICS) does not require prior express consent from the called party because: (a) such texts are covered by an exemption granted in response to another ICS provider’s request; (b) the text is initiated by inmate callers and not NCIC; and/or (c) the text is not sent by an automatic telephone dialing system (autodialer)