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Some telecom relay service providers may be improperly rounding u...

Some telecom relay service providers may be improperly rounding up conversation minutes reimbursed by the Interstate TRS Fund, the FCC said late Tuesday. “When recording the actual conversation time of each completed call, the decimal representation of the seconds…

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should extend to the tenth of a minute,” the FCC said. “Providers may round up only in those circumstances where the number in the hundredth place is 5 or greater.” When reporting total monthly minutes to the National Exchange Carrier Association, carriers should add all call times together and then round to the nearest whole number, it said.