Captioned Telephone Mandate Recommendation
6 01 2010All..
Captioned Telephony and VRS are one of the few features left that are not "required" by the TRS regulation.
The FCC Consumer Advisory Committee has released a recommendation that Captioned Telephony be required so all states will have to comply and provide this valuable service for hard of hearing persons.
If my memory serves me right, one of the reason why it has not been mandated yet is because it is a monopoly service and owned only by one company. Does that rationale still hold true, or has the importance of captioned telephone service outweigh the patent issue? Will be interesting to see how FCC responds.
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed B
Long link:
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2009/db1208/DOC-295070A1.pdf
How interesting, now the scammers can step up the scamming of businesses with impunity. There is still nothing for the relay services to block these scammers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Relay_Service
and last update to above reference is 9 Nov 2009.
The FCC still needs to approve STS IP and to approve a trail of Video Assisted STS.
Bob