Advocates for people who are deaf want an emergency stay of an FC...
Advocates for people who are deaf want an emergency stay of an FCC order requiring Internet-based relay providers to redirect users’ old toll-free numbers to their new 10-digit geographic numbers in the service management system 800 database. In comments…
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on a petition by CSDVRS (CD Sept 14 p8), the National Association of the Deaf and six other groups also sought reconsideration of the order. The requirement “will result in disruption of service to the severe detriment of those consumers who currently use toll free numbers,” the groups said in their petition. They agreed with CSDVRS that the order violates the Administrative Procedure Act by adopting “a new restrictive rule without first engaging in a notice and comment rulemaking proceeding.” The rule also violates functional equivalency principles required by Section 225 of the 1934 Communications Act and is inconsistent with FCC rules on video relay service interoperability and point-to-point videophone calling, they said.