Cellular South Looks To Piggy-Back on AT&T, Verizon TTY Waivers
Cellular South asked the FCC for a text telephony (TTY) waiver to use IP-enabled wireless services for the deaf and hard of hearing, just like the ones given previously to AT&T and Verizon (see 1510060026 and 1511130050). In a petition…
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filed Monday in docket 15-178, Cellular South asked the commission to waive certain rules and any other TTY accessibility requirements for VoIP networks, "subject to the same customer notification, progress reporting, and duration conditions applied to AT&T and Verizon." Cellular South said it didn't believe such a waiver was necessary but was seeking it "out of an abundance of caution in light of the recent TTY Waiver Orders." If the waiver is granted, Cellular South pledged, consistent with the Verizon and AT&T orders, to submit a preliminary report describing its initial plans to meet a "commitment to develop and deploy [real-time text] or an alternative text-based solution that is accessible, interoperable other carriers' accessibility solutions, and backward compatible with TTY technology."