Sorenson and CaptionCall Lobby Simington Aide on IP CTS Rates
Sorenson and CaptionCall urged the FCC to ensure IP-captioned telephone service providers are compensated to support communications assistant-based and automatic speech recognition-based services (see 2407110029). The companies said in a meeting with an aide to Commissioner Nathan Simington that a…
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$1.67 per minute rate with "a rate floor no lower than $1 for ASR would result in savings to the TRS Fund," according to an ex parte filing Wednesday in docket 03-123. The FCC should also "consider the costs of reaching hard-of-hearing Americans who need IP CTS but are unaware of it, and the needs of elderly consumers for support in their homes with installation of purpose-built phones," Sorenson and CaptionCall said.