November 2009: Law enforcement officers arrest John Yeh and the Viable executives, interpreters, and independent contractors who allegedly conspired to defraud the federal government.

December 17, 2009: FCC holds first workshop on VRS reform.

February 25, 2010: FCC reaffirms rules and policies regarding VRS service and Purple gets involved in the stand-off with the FCC over suspicious VRS minutes.

March 9, 2010: Purple acknowledges debt and plans to repay the TRS Fund a substantial amount of $.

April 30, 2010: NECA submits payment formula which generated a lot of discussion on how the rates are determined, and the discussion ensued until June 28, 2010 where the FCC affirmed NECA’s recommendations, more or less.

May 27, 2010: FCC takes steps to ensure VRS remains vibrant.

June 28, 2010: NOI released.

July 26, 2010: 4 VRS providers ask the FCC to extend the NOI comment dates because they need more time to think about the issues.

https://prodnet.www.neca.org/publicationsdocs/wwpdf/72610trs.pdf

Not sure how more time will help if we have been discussing this for almost a year. The FCC needs to move fast on this in order to determine the cost methodology for the rates starting July 2011 and this delay will not help anything at all.

And Purple hosted a huge party in Las Vegas for 1,000 attendees. Is that a wise use of their $?

Dangerous. Just ask Snap. And proof that there still aren’t profits.

MVP is “portable” but not “mobile” because it relies mostly on the local area network (LAN) which is usually found in the wireless router with specific firewall setting itself. The Purple marketed it as “mobile” which I think is misleading.

In my own definition, a true mobile VP is when you don’t actually need a LAN with specific firewall setting. A Mobile VP can go anywhere wirelessly without having to reconfigure the firewall setting each time when you go to different area.

Thank you for managing the mudslinging as always. You are a gentleman and we all appreciate the light taps reminding people to be civil here in your house.

I am less worried about a longwinded advertisement to pity $oren$on than I am about their leadership churning out thousands of e-mails which use fear and manipulation to get Deaf customers to cut-and-paste comments to the FCC.

Hey guys, we’re onto you, and so is the FCC CGB and DRO. When they receive stacks of identically tearful responses to your concocted threats of “they’ll take your VPs away” and “cut VRS services”, you just end up looking more pathetic.

Let’s go easy on SVRS bashing please as I think there were plenty already. Present facts only please and can do without the negative adjectives ;-] Factual reporting takes care of itself and let public judge based on that.

eyes ever open and thumbs up…

Of course, that’s true of Here We Go, too. Unless Ed is right and that post was meant as satire. It read a lot more like the transcript of a management meeting at Shaky S, to me but if it was satire, then I guess we can take the claims for “non-fraudulent” and “most efficient” and “yearly raises” with a grain of salt.

Unless if by non-fraudulent you mean unindicted? The latter is true, but the former, not so much. When I was there VIs routinely reported a scam where the time clock just kept spinning and callers made pointless call after pointless call to 800 number after 800 number. Some callers even described the scam to the VIs. Management told us to process all calls as usual. Then there were the incredible hold times when installers would call back to HQ in SLC. Both of those scams stopped when it became known that the FBI was nosing around, but more recently, according to my sister who still works there, they are passing off hundreds (thousands?) of uncertified “signers” as interpreters, something that would certainly be considered fraudulent in the community.

Maybe by “most efficient” you mean most oppressive? I did appreciate the comparison to WalMart, though. My sister tells me that some terps refer to Shaky S as CallMart (where the standards keep falling) because of the way they treat their employees.

Yearly raises? Not while I was there. My sister has been there over five years and has had two raises, one for 1.5% and the other for less. This at a time when the business (and the cost of living) has gone through the roof. Maybe by raises you mean bonuses? I understand management does receive those yearly.

Back to bonuses, if La la la la has evidence, I’d love to see it. The story of the man who threatened to end VRS as we know it to protect his $22 million payday would be quite a story if there were anything to it.

Happy Fourth, everybody, and of course, Go Spain!!!