The FCC seeks comment on a Sprint petition...
The FCC seeks comment on a Sprint petition for a limited waiver of a commission rule restricting access to the Internet-based telecom relay services numbering directory to only the TRS Numbering Administrator and Internet-based TRS providers, a public notice (http://bit.ly/1opN8fi)…
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said Wednesday. Sprint wants the waiver to let it, as a provider of federal relay services, populate its federal video relay service (VRS) toll-free “front door” phone numbers and 10-digit numbers into the iTRS Numbering Directory, the PN said. Sprint asserts that federal employees who are deaf or hard of hearing and have been assigned a Federal VRS number are unable to make point-to-point video calls, it said. Comments are due in docket 05-196 15 days after Federal Register publication, replies 25 days after publication.