T-Mobile Seeks Modified Multistate Average Rate Structure for IP Relay
T-Mobile told FCC staff from the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics that T-Mobile Accessibility "would like to maintain and expand its IP relay offering" and "must be adequately compensated" to do so, said an…
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ex parte posted Tuesday in docket 03-123. T-Mobile, which is the sole remaining certified IP relay provider, recommended adopting price cap regulation if not a ratemaking methodology based on a "modified version of the multistate average rate structure" (see 2112210045). It's "essential that the initial rate under a price cap system is set at a level that would give providers a fair opportunity to recover all of the costs incurred in providing IP relay service, along with an adequate operating margin," T-Mobile said.