FCC Extends Sprint, Hamilton Relay Waivers on TRS Equal-Access, Billing Options
The FCC gave Sprint and Hamilton Relay an extension of previously granted waivers of mandatory minimum standards for certain telecom relay services offered under state TRS programs. "The waived standards require providers of traditional TRS, speech-to-speech relay service (STS), and…
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non-Internet Protocol (IP) forms of captioned telephone service (CTS) to offer consumers (1) their choice of long distance carrier (equal access rule) and (2) multiple billing options for long distance calls," said the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau public notice Wednesday in docket 03-123. The waivers now extend "until the earlier of August 24, 2019, or the effective date of a Commission decision" on the continuing application of the related standards.