Cellular South Becomes Third Wireless Carrier To Get TTY Waiver
Four FCC bureaus jointly approved a temporary, limited waiver for Cellular South of a requirement that the carrier support text telephony technology for the deaf and hard of hearing to the extent it uses IP technologies like wireless VoIP. The…
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FCC earlier approved similar waivers for Verizon and AT&T (see 1511130050). The order was issued Friday by the chiefs of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs, Public Safety and Homeland Security, Wireless and Wireline bureaus. In a November petition filed in docket 15-178, Cellular South asked the commission to waive certain rules and other TTY accessibility requirements for VoIP networks, "subject to the same customer notification, progress reporting, and duration conditions applied to AT&T and Verizon." The waiver expires Dec. 31, 2017, a notice by the bureaus said.