The World Customs Organization issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The FCC extended by 30 days until April 30 the deadline for video relay service providers to submit data to the telecom relay services user registration database (TRS-URD). In a Friday order in docket 10-51, the FCC said it wants to give more time “to collect user data and consent from those VRS users who have not consented to submission of their information to the TRS-URD.”
Comments are due May 29 at the FCC on disaster information reporting system duties, which now affect wireless, wireline, broadcast, cable, VoIP and ISP entities, said a notice in the Federal Register Wednesday. The commission is to review comments on the DIRS burdens for industry under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and make any appropriate adjustments, which the Office of Management and Budget must approve. The FR is to publish several FCC items Thursday, including: a notice seeking PRA comments by May 29 (calendar) on Lifeline USF information-collection requirements; a notice seeking PRA comments by May 29 on telecom relay service information-collection requirements; and a rule requiring short-form applications to be filed by Friday in the Connect America Fund Phase II fixed service subsidy auction to start July 24.
Comments are due May 29 at the FCC on disaster information reporting system duties, which now affect wireless, wireline, broadcast, cable, VoIP and ISP entities, said a notice in the Federal Register Wednesday. The commission is to review comments on the DIRS burdens for industry under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and make any appropriate adjustments, which the Office of Management and Budget must approve. The FR is to publish several FCC items Thursday, including: a notice seeking PRA comments by May 29 (calendar) on Lifeline USF information-collection requirements; a notice seeking PRA comments by May 29 on telecom relay service information-collection requirements; and a rule requiring short-form applications to be filed by Friday in the Connect America Fund Phase II fixed service subsidy auction to start July 24.
The World Customs Organization issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
FCC staff took two video relay service actions responding to concerns about implementation of a telecom relay service user registration database (TRS-URD). "We clarify the meaning of 'verification check' for purposes of determining when [VRS] providers may seek compensation for calls placed by users whose verification process has not been completed," said the docket 10-51 order Wednesday of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau and the Office of the Managing Director. "We extend for 31 days, through March 31, 2018, the deadline for VRS providers to submit registration data for their registered users." Three of the five providers -- Convo Communications, and ZVRS jointly with Purple Communications -- filed temporary waiver petitions seeking relief from deadlines, including one Wednesday for submitting data to the TRS-URD.
There are two pleading cycles on state applications for certifying telecom relay service provision, for five years starting July 26, said an FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau public notice Friday in docket 03-123. Comments on one group of state applications are due Feb. 22, replies March 9, and comments on another are due Feb. 23, replies March 12.
The FCC pleading cycle was extended on applications for state certification of the provision of telecom relay service, covering the five-year period starting July 26. Comments are now due Feb. 23, replies March 12, said a notice in Wednesday's Federal Register.
Video relay service providers may start sending data to the telecom relay service user registration database, the FCC said in a Friday public notice in dockets 10-51 and 3-123. VRS providers must submit registration information and all user eligibility self-certifications by Feb. 28, the FCC said. After that day, VRS must send the user data upon initiation of service, it said.
Forty-eight states applied to renew their state telecom relay service program certifications for the five-year period starting July 26, said FCC public notices (here and here) Monday in docket 03-123. The PNs said comments will be due 30 days after Federal Register publication, replies 15 days after that.