Comments Due Sept. 14 on Proposed FCC VRS Interoperability, Portability Standards
Comments are due at the FCC Sept. 14 on proposed video relay service standards for interoperability and portability developed by VRS stakeholders (there are no replies due). The Federal Register Wednesday published a summary of a Further NPRM issued by…
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the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Aug. 4 in docket 10-51 (see 1608050031). "These standards will enable a VRS user to place and receive calls through any VRS provider and make point-to-point calls to all other VRS users, irrespective of the default provider of the parties to the call, and without the caller having to change the VRS access technology used to make such calls," the notice said. VRS providers will have to comply with the new standards to be compensated under the program, which subsidizes relay services allowing deaf and hearing people to communicate with one another through a sign-language interpreter.