Competitors to Sorenson Communications cried foul on the telecom ...
Competitors to Sorenson Communications cried foul on the telecom relay service giant’s petition to allow proxy numbers for Internet-based TRS (CD Oct 10 p8). The FCC intends to ban alias numbers starting Jan. 1, when 10- digit phone numbers…
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become available to TRS users. To ease the transition, Sorenson said, the FCC should allow proxies for another year. The petition is “part of Sorenson’s continuing campaign to maintain a dominant market share through operation of a close, non- interoperable system,” GoAmerica said in comments Wednesday. Proxy numbers allow “Sorenson users and only Sorenson users to call each other directly,” whereas 10- digit numbers can be used to dial a customer of any company, it said. There are public safety reasons to dispense with proxies, Hamilton Relay said. If a proxy user’s 911 call is disconnected, the user can’t receive PSAP callbacks through alternative relay providers, it said. In an emergency, proxy users might not be able to get calls from “hearing relatives and friends who are not part of this closed system,” it said.