Purple Communications urged the FCC eighth floor to seek comment ...
Purple Communications urged the FCC eighth floor to seek comment on how to clarify and strengthen the agency’s telecom relay service rules. Purple met last week with Commissioner Meredith Baker and aides to Commissioners Robert McDowell, Mignon Clyburn and…
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Michael Copps, according to an ex parte filing. Purple slammed the agency’s TRS rules in a petition last month (CD Aug 18 p4), saying they “have fallen short of the policy goals outlined by Congress and the FCC.” Consumer advocates for the deaf have endorsed the Purple petition. In a letter last week to Chairman Julius Genachowski, Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and seven other groups said Purple raised “legitimate questions regarding the rights and rules regarding TRS.” The consumer groups urged the FCC to clarify rules about what constitutes reasonable TRS provider outreach, providing free or discounted equipment and deaf consumers’ rights to functionally equivalent phone service in the workplace.