Comsat no longer is required to contribute to the Telecom Relay S...
Comsat no longer is required to contribute to the Telecom Relay Services (TRS) Fund, the FCC said in an order released Thurs. Consequently, the Commission ordered that Comsat be refunded the more than $500,000 it had contributed to the…
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fund. The former Common Carrier Bureau had ordered that part of the company’s revenue from leasing satellite capacity would go to the fund supporting hearing and speech- impaired individuals. Comsat contributed to the fund at the same time as it argued that its services didn’t qualify as an interstate telecom service, the FCC said. It said that in reviewing Comsat’s arguments, it found the company was correct because “the satellite operator ‘merely provides its customer with the exclusive right to transmit to a specified piece of hardware on the satellite.'”