The FCC need not clarify the default provider rule in its order t...
The FCC need not clarify the default provider rule in its order to implement a 10-digit numbering plan for Internet-based relay services, relay provider Sorenson said. In a Monday filing, Sorenson opposed a request by CSDVRS. CSDVRS had said…
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the order could be read as empowering relay providers to complicate consumers’ efforts to access alternate providers by dialing around (CD Aug 19 p8). “The Commission should decline CSDVRS’s invitation to establish a lengthy and complex set of situation-specific rules that would effectively freeze TRS technology and innovation, to the detriment of users,” the company said. “CSDVRS’s proposal would undermine the progress toward functional equivalency that will be achieved by implementation of the FCC’s uniform numbering system.” The default provider selection requirement won’t give relay providers the wrong idea, because the FCC said “nothing” in the order “detracts from a TRS provider’s interoperability obligations,” Sorenson said. Giving relay users 10-digit numbers “will necessarily change the manner in which the end user experiences interoperability,” it said. Interoperability mechanisms will “evolve,” but users’ “freedom of choice” will remain, it said.