FCC Grants Waiver of TRS Requirement on ASCII
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau approved conditional waivers for T-Mobile and Hamilton Relay on a rule requiring providers of text telephone-based telecom relay service to offer a service capable of communicating with devices using the American Standard Code…
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for Information Interchange (ASCII) format. In 2022, T-Mobile asked that the FCC initiate a rulemaking eliminating the ASCII reference because it's "an obsolete and infrequently used format,” said an order in Monday’s Daily Digest. Hamilton filed in support, the bureau said. “In these particular circumstances, we find that, given ASCII’s technological obsolescence, the absence of significant demand for it, and the presence of viable alternatives, there is good cause to grant T-Mobile and Hamilton waivers of the requirement to offer TTY-based relay service in ASCII format,” the bureau said.