No Video Relay Service provider can provide service at...
No Video Relay Service provider can provide service at the rates proposed by Rolka Loube Saltzer Associates (CD May 20 p14), Sorenson told then-FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Thursday, said an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/10MtRgn). RLSA’s proposals “would lead to the…
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deterioration of service and innovation, fundamentally undermining the mandate of functional equivalence established by the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Sorenson said. The company said the “fundamental flaw” in RLSA’s proposal is the rate-of-return methodology that underlies it, which is “incomplete” and “inappropriate” for a “labor-intensive business” like the Video Relay Service. As the commission has abandoned rate-of-return rulemaking in every other setting, it would be “arbitrary and capricious” to use it only to set VRS rates, Sorenson said.