ITTA Dismisses 'Red Herrings' in Enterprise Users' Filing on TRS Billing Petition
ITTA slammed a Kairos Partners filing on behalf of enterprise users that urged the FCC to continue to prohibit carriers from "identifying" telecom relay service costs as line items on consumer bills to not "stigmatize disabled individuals" (see 1902200049). Kairos…
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"is merely doubling down on the same red herrings, hyperbole, and misreadings of precedent that have characterized their prior filings," emailed the mid-size telco group, which has petitioned the agency for a TRS billing ruling and cited its July 3 reply as addressing criticisms. "ITTA has made it abundantly clear that ITTA is not seeking in this petition to specifically identify on consumers’ bills costs attributable to TRS. Rather, ITTA’s ask is that the Commission issue a declaratory ruling that it is and always has been permissible for a carrier recovering TRS Fund contributions via an end user cost recovery fee line item (or the like) on customers’ bills to include TRS, among other references, in the line item description. This properly balances Commission precedent both with respect to TRS and Truth-in-Billing."