The FCC issued a declaratory ruling reaffirming rules and policie...
The FCC issued a declaratory ruling reaffirming rules and policies on video relay services reimbursement and calling practices. The Telecommunications Relay Services Fund “can’t be used to support practices that are designed only to increase payments to VRS providers,…
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rather than providing a necessary service for people who need it,” said Joel Gurin, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau chief. The “action emphasized that VRS calls made or arranged to generate per-minute fees for the providers are not and have never been compensable from the TRS Fund,” the commission said in a news release. Video relay services calls within the United States can’t be compensated from the fund. The commission also emphasized that the cost of calls made by or to employees of VRS providers and their subcontractors are compensable as a business expense. The ruling also attempts to stop abuse of voice carry over “to make free long distance calls between two people using their voices.”