The FCC shouldn’t lower video relay service rates ‘until function...
The FCC shouldn’t lower video relay service rates “until functional equivalence is a reality,” Gallaudet University President Emeritus King Jordan told acting Chairman Michael Copps in a meeting Monday, an ex parte filing said. The FCC is mulling whether…
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to apply new compensation rates for VRS under the interstate telecom relay service fund for the 2009- 2010 fund year (CD May 18 p6). The National Exchange Carrier Association administers the fund and proposed the permanent rates. It has been following a three-year interim plan established in 2007. “NECA-allowed costs do not allow for the absolutely crucial investments that providers must make in order to continue to enhance VRS service and develop new products,” Jordan said. The existing, three-year plan “ensures stable, fair, and predictable rates, thus allowing VRS providers to make long-term plans and investments that will benefit deaf users,” he said. It has “led to product development and distribution; research and development; and interpreter training and professional development.”