Nominated for FCC Commissioner
30 04 2009All..
Obama nominated Mignon Clyburn to be one of the FCC Commissioner.
If you want to know what Clyburn looks like..
Clyburn will be replacing Jonathan Adelstein who has been known to give support to the deaf/hoh issues.
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Ed
I can say from my own personal experience when I started Snap Telecommunications (Snap!VRS), Clyburn was engaged and interested in my proposal for Snap to become a telephone company and the idea of providing VRS. Clyburn voted in favor of Snap’s Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) to offer telephone service and VRS.
For clarity of the record, I am no longer involved with, associated with, responsible for or knowledgeable of Snap’s business other than what is part of the public record or my own experience as a consumer.
Links to the docket when I founded Snap which Ms. Clyburn participated in the process.
Directive – Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to provide local exchange and interexchange telecommunications services, including Video Relay Services with the State of SC;and request for Flexible and Alternative Regulation
http://dms.psc.sc.gov/pdf/matters/8E020168-A07B-7122-76C9112DE24C15B1.pdf
Order Granting Certificate – Application of USA Video Relay, Inc. (name changed later to Snap Telecommuncations) for a Certificate of Pulbic Convenience and Necessity for Local and Interexchange Services, and for Flexible Regulation
http://dms.psc.sc.gov/pdf/orders/82AF5EE6-0408-618C-968F23B7F2FE8769.pdf
Snap’s Number of Customer Access Lines as of 1/27/2009 = 6
http://dms.psc.sc.gov/pdf/matters/195AE05B-B291-A021-458D756059643CD4.pdf
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Ed
Ed,
I like your very informative newsletter. I was searching for information about close caption on the internet that I noticed is not provide for many of the video of news events going on. I wonder if FCC is going to require news on the internet have close captions for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing?
I did not realize that this is going to be a communication problem because close caption is provided on television and cable programs, but I am using the internet more and more and would like to have access to what is begin said.
Do you have any comments on this? Thank You.
Alex Nobleman
Alex,
I will try to include some news on closed captioning. Unfortunately, right now Internet news is “out” of FCC jursdiction. I think best way at this time to address this issue is via your congressmen/women.
I, too, agree with you. It infuriates me big time to see video news clips are not being captioned.
Ed
There are currently three open spots. I nominate Ed Bosson : )