IP Captioned Telephone Service Providers Lobby FCC Aides on New Rate Plan
IP captioned telephone service providers asked the FCC to act on a new IP CTS rate plan (see 2406030062). CaptionCall said in separate meetings with aides to Commissioners Nathan Simington, Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks that the rate plan "should…
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set the basic economic framework for the development of the most functionally equivalent IP CTS." The company also met with an aide to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. In addition, Hamilton Relay met separately with aides to Carr and Starks. It told the FCC that a new rate plan should "adequately compensate providers for the higher costs" associated with using a communications assistant (CA). Moreover, a plans should "require all certified providers ... to include an option for CA-assisted IP CTS."