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Securus Technologies is a technology communications firm serving prisons across the United States. [1] [2] The company is a subsidiary of Aventiv Technologies.In the past, the company has faced criticism over phone call pricing, data security, monopoly [3] and product innovation.
On August 9, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a report on the high cost of inmate calling services, with proposed reforms. [16] A 2013 FCC analysis, described how, in some cases, long-distance calls are charged six times the rate on the outside, or in other instances, a fifteen-minute call could cost upwards of $15. [17]
Securus has been involved in buying and selling location data of private citizens that use cell-phones. [11] This has been raised as a privacy concern as it allows Securus to sell for its own profit the "location of nearly any phone in the US without authorization," including to bounty hunters.
It offers reverse charge calls from any fixed line phone, pay phone and most mobile phones (even if the prepaid credit has run out), to most fixed land line and mobile phones in Ireland. [12] The company charges €2.99 to connect the call, including the first 60 seconds of the call, and €0.593 for every subsequent minute.
Elemental cost planning is a system of Cost planning and Cost control, typically for buildings, which enables the cost of a scheme to be monitored during design development. 1951 saw the publication of the Ministry of Education Building Bulletin No 4 which essentially introduced the concept of elemental cost planning to the UK construction ...
If certified cost or pricing data has been requested by the Government and submitted by an offeror, but an exception is later found to apply, the data should not be considered to be "certified". [1] The requirement for a certificate of cost or pricing data may also apply to sub-contractors at any tier in the supply chain. [2] [4]
Dynamic pricing, also referred to as surge pricing, demand pricing, or time-based pricing, and variable pricing, is a revenue management pricing strategy in which businesses set flexible prices for products or services based on current market demands. It usually entails raising prices during periods of peak demand and lowering prices during ...
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