Advocates: FCC Should Grant IP Relay Certifications for 'New Entrants'
The Association of Late-Deafened Adults and Deaf Seniors of America urged the FCC to "consider certificating new entrants" of IP relay providers. In a letter Wednesday in docket 03-123, the groups backed Nagish's conditional certification, saying the "now-typical two-year conditional…
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certification period will provide valuable information to both the commission and consumers." Nagish received its certification in January (see 2401040069). The groups noted that allowing new entrants to the IP relay marketplace will "advance innovation and functional equivalence" after "a decade of a single provider in the market and only one method" of delivering the service. IP relay is "an especially important service for individuals who are DeafBlind because IP relay is an alternative service for individuals who are unable to benefit from video relay services and IP captioned telephone services," the groups said. Current providers of IP relay and video relay services "provide no choices to users who want to speak on the phone without a human interpreter relaying the call," they said: "New IP relay providers can change this."