VRS Providers Push FCC for 'Limited' Waiver of Interoperability Technical Duties
Video relay service providers pressed the FCC to pause interoperability obligations and let them serve VRS users while users' verification is pending through a telecom relay service user registration database. A "limited" waiver suspending temporarily implementation of a VRS Access…
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Technology Reference Platform (VATRP App) and associated technical specifications (RUE Profile) is justified, given "diverging trends" and the absence of "any interoperability problem or consumer need," filed ASL Services (Global VRS), Convo Communications, CSDVRS (ZVRS), Purple Communications and Sorenson Communications on meeting staffers of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and Office of Managing Director, Friday in docket 10-51. Even though providers have "successfully" addressed interoperability issues, the VATRP App and Rue Profile requirements "expanded beyond the original scope that the Commission conceived in 2013 as a testing tool for interoperability, adding new 'features' that providers must support, at the cost of millions to the [TRS] Fund and the Providers."