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Tidal Wave Telecom Seeks Waiver to Help Jails ID Inmate VRS Calls

Tidal Wave Telecom asked the FCC to waive rules barring "non-Video Relay Service" providers from getting access to a telecom relay service numbering directory. TWT wants such access to "deploy technology solutions," including to enable jails and prisons "to identify…

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incoming and outgoing VRS calls received and made by deaf or hard-of-hearing ... inmates where such monitoring is permitted," it petitioned, posted Wednesday in docket 03-123. It said the request is similar to VTC Secure's, approved in January 2017 (see 1701190038), and will "decrease costs and abuse of the TRS fund, increase security at correctional facilities, and promote lawful communications."