Sprint Gets Support for IP Relay Recovery Costs
Sprint got some support for a waiver request to recover costs for providing IP relay (see 1903280018). Organizations representing the deaf and blind agreed the company should be able to recover costs to expand its outreach to “the entire universe…
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of IP Relay users and potential users” and be reimbursed with overhead costs for providing IP relay, said a filing posted Tuesday in dockets including 03-123. Sprint is entitled to reimbursement for R&D to “ensure that IP Relay keeps up with technological advancements,” said Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the National Association of the Deaf, Association of Late-Deafened Adults, Hearing Loss Association of America, Cerebral Palsy and Deaf Organization, American Association of the DeafBlind. Exclusion of certain IP captioned telephone service “providers from Database cost recovery, based on their supposed ability to 'afford it,' conflicts with the agency’s 'obligation to ensure that rates fall within the zone of reasonableness,'” said Hamilton Relay. It petitioned for reconsideration of a related order.